STONE OCEAN
beijing
18 Feb 2023 - 26 Mar 2023
STONE OCEAN
Artists: Dan'er, Jing Ao, Liang Shuni, Liang Wei, Shen Ruijun, Wei Ying, Xie Qun, Zhu Yingying
Hunsand Space (Beijing) will present a new exhibition " STONE OCEAN", which will open on February 18, 2023 and last until March 26, 2023. This group exhibition is honored to invite Dan'er, Jing Ao, Liang Shuni, Liang Wei, Shen Ruijun, Wei Ying, Xie Qun and Zhu Yingying to exhibit their works, all of which have an air of mystery while blending perseverance and tenderness. Through the creator's conjecture of the origin, transformation and demise of life, the internal and external response to the body of self-suffering, and the introspection of religion, politics, industrial technology and needs in the development of civilization... the exhibition attempts to clear up a wisp of the increasingly blurred sensibility of modern society.
The volcanic hydrothermal vent deep under the sea may be the birthplace of life on Earth, and the early embryos of vertebrates are almost all fish-like forms. These realities and speculations allow Liang Shuni to swim back to the ancient memory of the deep sea:birth, growth, and the remains exposed after the water level drops, introducing her to a space-to-space dialogue with the origin of the being.For describing the unknown, we often take a human prototype and then combine what we see and think to generate a new illusion.In addition to using human form, Xie Qun also transforms and substitutes everyday things into her "Tuo Yue Universe", so the mushroom door, peanut tower, mask lung, and the sacred mountain born of lunch boxes... These bizarre boxes have become a mirror in the dark night. Jing Ao listens to the breath in all things, and her exploration revolves around sound, using "pure objects" as the main material, looking for the rhythm of sound in installations of different sizes, thus looking at her paintings, they are more like elves slipping out of her head, sprouting as she sees fit.
When the volcano erupts,the magma in the flow process,the cooling and solidification in the front, the continuous pushing and pushing in the back, and the fierce collision of cold and heat, forming a "sea of turning stones". In turn, the momentary instability is temporarily securitized, and the subtle changes inside drive the next shell metamorphosis. This change is imperceptible and varies from person to person, just as when we look at the body of pain, we will find that women have been genetically predisposed to feel pain far more than men from ancient times to the present and it will also give them a better chance to become aware at the same time.Xie Qun converges the state of her life into short poems and small paintings with a sense of magical reality. When she perceives pain, the "rolling poem" will follow; and once the anxiety is gone, the willingness to express disappears. The pain cannot be truly felt, but one can try to listen to it fully without any distinction. In Zhu's current work, which uses "fire" as a metaphorical object, it pinprickly provokes a strong individual struggle, and the shape of fire in an instant becomes a critical point between inside and outside, and the spiritual sensibility in this painting is deeper than before.
Usually, people are first attracted by the appearance (image,fame, power and money), but the close proximity often backfires, and the strange smell of rotten smell mixed with chemical essence is likely to ooze under the virtual image. But when they get close to them, they often do not get what they want, and what emanates from beneath the false image is probably a strange smell of decay mixed with chemical fragrances.In response to the various fractures in the development of civilization, art creators often show four different states: creating the other side, revealing the reality, improving, and simplifying. Language, as a tool of communication, has its limitations since its emergence, but we still need to use it to advance the cognition of self and the world, and to approach the original appearance of life. Liang Wei constantly dissolves the accumulated personal experience and external concepts, slowly deduces the painting language with personal attributes, and her consciousness flows into the process of continuous fragmentation, tending to an ethereal realm. After the reorganization of the torn images in Shen Ruijun's paintings, the killing and bloodshed can be faintly distinguished,revealing the nakedness and complexity beneath the flamboyant surface of religion or art.The urbanization-centered system, which tends to be perfected, tends to catalyze the desire for ego, and when the "ego" becomes too big, human disasters will follow. In the process of modernization of "disenchantment", Wei Ying diverted "re-enchantment" to the living environment that is overly dependent on modern systems, and dispelled the blindfolded mist to the spiritual wilderness freely at will. If we agree with the existence of "gods" above human beings, it should be a true reverence for life, not just a desire.In recent years, Dan'er has gradually weakened the implantation of subjective intentions, weakened the complex social, political and religious background of "stamping", and performed the simplest way of 'One' generates 'two.' 'Two' generates 'three.' They are like the differentiation and division of individual cells, and together they derive a pluralistic world.
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