六祖慧能曰：「本来无一物，何处惹尘埃」。不少人都听过禪宗这诗偈，但究竟如何詮释其中含义，却人人自有不同看法。《出炉2011新人奖》得主陈翊朗对此话别有一番体会。他从禪宗的洒脱取得创作的灵感，并以「本来无一物」为题举办他的首个个人展览。展览以不同形式的混合媒介作品呈现艺术家的思考，让观眾以新的感知角度探究生命的「有」、「无」、「虚」、「实」。

是次展览源自陈翊朗对过往生活点滴的体验。如题为《疤痕》的作品便以他童年脑部手术所留下的疤痕为本，透过作品去了解自己对伤痕、对生命的无奈，并从个人的伤痕联系到人生得失所刻下的痕跡。另外，点题作品《本来无一物》利用展场宽阔的环境，以画在阶砖上的图像营造一个似有还无的环境。艺术家尝试以视觉经验为本，玩味万象世间的有与无、真与假及我们对此的执著与释怀。

Dajian Huineng/ Huineng of Sixth and Last Patriarch once said, “Fundamentally there is not a single thing, where could any dust be attracted?” Many had heard the saying from Chán Buddhism, but one may has their own interpretation of the sentence. As one of the four awardees of New Trend 2011, Oscar Chan has his own reading of these words. He observed his muse from the “free and ease” of Chán Buddhism and created a series of works that are corresponding in his first solo exhibition. The artist created a series of mixed media pieces to present his thoughts and provide a sensible aspect to discover the “existence”, “nothingness”, “void”, and “solidity” of life.

The exhibition evolved from the artist’s bit and pieces of life experiences: His work “Scar” was based on a major brain operation in childhood, while working, Chan reflected his helplessness from the scar and his life, by relating his scar to other personal wound in livelihood. In the mean time, with the work “Since All is Void”, which titled the exhibition, he transformed the exhibition space into an obscure /ambiguity surrounding by using painted images on tiles.

The artist also tried to chew on our obsession and ease towards the elements of real and unreal, solid and void, of all existences, with his own visual experiences.