Venue | Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center
Booth No.| 1D34
Preview | 26-27 March, 2025
Open to Public | 28-30 March, 2025
Kabinett Sector
Pencil Walker – Shi Jin-Hua
Written by Mind Set Art Center
In the “Kabinett” sector of ABHK 2025, Mind Set Art Center will present “Pencil Walker”, a representative work of concept and performance artist Shi Jin-Hua, who unfortunately passed away in a traffic accident on June 28, 2024. Shi first presented the performance of “A 100km Walk” at ABHK in 2017 and garnered massive attention from the international art scene.
“Pencil Walker” has become almost synonymous as Shi Jin-Hua himself, who dedicated himself from 1996 to 2015 to create the large-scale installation piece. The artist initially set up an almost 10-meter-wide white wall panel in front of which he walked back and forth while dragging a pencil along the surface and reciting mantras from the “Heart Sutra”, a key Buddhist scripture. Each session of “walking the pencil” lasted for about two hours and fifteen minutes and is a rigorous test of the artist’s physical and mental endurance. Shi essentially becomes one with his own practice and transcends his life force into the infinite number of pencil lines. During the process, the artist and Buddhist practitioner goes through the process of repentance, which leads to purification and salvation of his soul.
