Many Incarnations of Paper in Contemporary Art

Paper, an affordable and flexible medium, has been utilised in our daily life as tissues, money, books, letters, tickets, receipts, and so forth, as well as metaphors, in different human cultures. It has distinctive uses and cultural connotations in Asian contexts. In contemporary art, can paper become an individual art form and go beyond its common role as a support material and surface for writing, drawing, painting, printing, wrapping, and so on? In a digital age when the significant functions of paper, especially writing, have gradually diminished or been replaced, can the experimental contemporary paper art foster our connections or reconnections with paper and its cultural, intellectual, and spiritual significance in the past?