He Chi: Sound Segregation
November 3, 2018-January 13, 2019
He Chi: Sound Segregation
One hundred thousand space will be launched on November 3, 2018, he Chi's personal exhibition: sound insulation.
He Chi is an artist whose creation and life blend together. It is difficult to define the gap between "works" and "life" in his works. This has been shown in his previous work "forget it like this": in August 2014, he Chi's father died suddenly. He returned to his hometown and tried to live a "meaningless life", just as his father once lived. His mother recorded the process with a camera.
When we gaze at the scene in the camera, it seems that it is difficult to perceive it with the thinking of "works"; what we see is He Chi, who is deeply buried in his life, and the vitality emanating from his body. This life and life are ordinary and perishable, but it is also moving. His works can always make this hard to capture the moving generalization.
So is sound insulation. In 2017, he Chi almost spent the whole year singing. He used his mobile phone "sing bar" (a mobile phone singing APP) to sing, and then lived a "meaningless life", just like all the life he claimed. Perhaps meaningless is the whole meaning of life. Perhaps it is because you get rid of the oppression and kidnapping of meaning, the texture, warmth, numbness or pain of your daily life. When you listen to these songs alone, you can feel so simple and true, just like your own secret life.
From the perspective of artistic expression logic, soundproof is the same as Ge Guan, which he Chi realized in arrow factory space in 2016. In Ge Guan, he Chi spent a meaningless spring. He obeyed his own physical feelings and the natural changes around him. Spring has come, the big elm behind the arrow factory space is getting green day by day, everything around it is getting green day by day, and the interior of arrow factory space is becoming meaningless green day by day under his painting.
On the surface, it seems that the two works do not need to visit the scene, only through imagination, can complete the reading of the works. But when the audience really enters the work, the senses seem to be infiltrated unconsciously, just like the rest after a long journey: the rhythm of the heart rises and falls, the time slows down, and the reality is constantly strengthened and highlighted in a kind of dejavu...
Life is a form of art. Every unique life of an individual is a unique art and a mirror in which others can see their own life. The moment you gaze and listen to others is to look back and be aware of your own present. If the "soundproof" period of life is rejection, it is self isolation. Then, the art of soundproofing is expected to be real and inseparable communication, exchange, embrace, care and identification between specific individuals.
I'd like to sing a song about it. Though I'm alone in an empty room, I still sing for myself. Of course, unlike me, other people need to be packed in the house if they want to sing well. Those who can teach people to fly will surely transfer all landmarks. Because in his opinion, any sign will fly away, and he will rename the earth "light body". Ostriches run faster than horses, but they eventually plunge their heads deep into the ground - and so do humans. For people, the earth and life are quite heavy. If you want to be light as a swallow, you must first love yourself.
——Nietzsche, said zarathutra
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