French artist Dufresne has turned to Chinese characters to explore art.

    His ongoing show at Yishu 8, a nonprofit and art space in Beijing, has installations (装置) on which some characters (paint) and visitors can play word games by moving them around to make new characters. Each Chinese character has different parts. Separating or  (combine) these parts creates new things. For example ,the character of lin (forest), when put on the top of xi (dusk) becomes meng (dream).

    He  ( produce) them by first asking Chinese people he met in the streets, at parks and tourist spots,(write) different characters with ink brushes on paper, and then painted them onto large wooden boards, trying to make the characters look  close to their original handwritten forms as possible.

    “Each character (vivid) reminds me of the person who wrote it. To me, the writer and the character seem to share the same personality,” says Dufresne. He sees the characters as the human body in motion. An ancient character  (photograph) by himself at a Chinese museum appears to him like “a person walking”.

    Christine Cayol, is the founder of Yishu 8, says the young artist has provided “poetic viewpoint” his work by trying to create a  ( connect) between Chinese characters  the human body.