Qiu Shijie: Unearth an Astronaut
Take out an astronaut from the ground
October 24-December 12, 2020
[Qiu Shijie: Unearth an Astronaut]
One hundred thousand space is very pleased to announce that the fifth solo exhibition of artist Qiu Shijie, "take out an astronaut from the ground", will open at 4:00 p.m. on October 23, 2020, and will be on display until December 12.
Since 2015, Qiu Shijie has been asking a series of related questions at the frequency of an annual solo exhibition: How did life begin? As living beings, how do we judge life and modify the conclusion? In the process of looking at the surrounding environment and self, what are the instant impulses generated by the eyes and the environment?
How to understand the exhibition around us in 2015? How to recognize the actions around me? What is the relationship between body movements and surrounding movements? Through the three works, the artist gives way to the space around the action, making its sense of moment entangled in the relationship between the two.
The 2016 Exhibition "five centimeters above the ground" consists of four sculptures and installation works. It originated from the artists' observation of the urban-rural fringe in China at that time, and presented the thinking of the relationship between nature, society, land, people and China's social development in "what is it?" In the end, "why is this around?" The questions are left to the viewer.
So the exhibition "the universe is upside down" is an overall spatial device. In the form of surrounding actions and existing phenomena, the artist has made a big step forward: how is the environment transmitted and perceived by us, and what is the logical reference of Qian and Kun?
"Rumination in the future" is based on the premise of the previous "cognitive basis", and the observation point is set at a certain time in the future, so as to "ruminate" in a certain time line. The setting of time point is applicable to any individual and node, thus releasing unlimited freedom of time and space. The umbilical cord of daily experience is the link between the two ends of time and space. "Who we are today" in 2019 is presented at Art Basel Hong Kong (Asian perspective). This is a centralized exhibition project with works from the previous four exhibitions. Through this comprehensive exhibition, the artist once again asked himself: where does our form come from? How does form shape us?
When form separates life from meaning, can it give us more freedom? But freedom is not limited to this, and daily experience, as the umbilical cord, also makes the ruminating inquiry start, continue and repeat. As a result, daily sundries have become an important theme reference in Qiu Shijie's works - it not only constitutes personal experience, but also supports the framework of macro history. Together with another dominant theme "subversion of space", which he continues to construct, it jointly creates the exhibition "a spaceman pulled out from the ground". The artist also visualizes many metaphors and points directly to the audience's live experience.
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