Liu Ke & Frank Vigneron: The problem of Untitled

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What is conceptual art? One of the points is: “Is there any question asked?”
“The Consciousness of Questions” is an important feature of conceptual art.
“Untitled” is a work that does not have an inscription that can be completed.
The problem of “untitled” has become a problem: the requirement of a title becomes a convention, but this title has little significance for good artwork, and either painting the lily or leading astray.
Therefore, untitled questions are better than titled questions; So let’s call our exhibition “untitled questions”.
– Liu Ke

The question of the title for abstract art has always been problematic. Whereas figurative painting generally presents to the eye something that can also be described with words, abstract art is not supposed to be perceived that way.
Although my own work was never conceived as part of this history of abstraction, it is, however, decidedly not figurative art and I decided, over 30 years ago, to stick to a single title for every one of my drawings: Le Songe Creux, which can be translated as something like ‘The Hollow Dream’ but also means, in French, someone who is always daydreaming and not doing anything constructive. I chose this general title to remind myself, ironically, that my own social and physical being has little to do with this endeavor, and, more importantly, because what exists in these lines is the pursuit of forms where the Chinese philosophical concept of the void is perpetually present.
– Frank Vigneron