Song Jiayin: Falling into place
June 16-July 31, 2017
Song Jiayin: Falling into place
"Real, but not realistic, ideal, but not abstract."
——Marcel Proust, reminiscence of the past
For a long time, song Jiayin's creation is full of incoherent narration. Her fragmentary presentation of works has the cleverness of Carver's Short Stories: full of tiny details but no clear direction. Mountains, buildings, portraits and forms all have their own willful gestures in her hands. They are clumsy and unique. They are related to the time, memory and reality that the artist has experienced.
If the existence of memory is relative to the present and the present, then the situation contrary to the real time and space will occur. We will find that the people and things emerging in our memory are always magical: the details, tones and even smell related to them are sometimes vague and intimate, sometimes strange and distant. They are hidden in the organs of life in a short sentence, just like falling on a vast archipelago: although it is disorderly and accidental, it is also inevitable to retain its mark. This kind of memory is accompanied by emotional experience, which brings new motivation for song Jiayin's creation. Song Jiayin transforms the invisible symbolic mark of time into abstract totem or action. In a gentle way, she reminds us that what we experience or are experiencing is more or less imprinted in our consciousness, and at the same time, it also shapes us today; we should be aware of and face the unconscious time mark independently and soberly, and follow the trend.
Now, welcome to the islands of time linked by memory.
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