Gao Yingpu:Night Shadow · Night Obsession
Beijing
December 21st, 2024 - February 28th, 2025
Gao Yingpu:Night Shadow · Night Obsession
Gao Yingpu:Night Shadow · Night Obsession
Artists: Gao Yingpu
Exhibition：Night Shadow · Night Obsession
Duration：December 21st, 2024 - February 28th, 2025
Opening: 4:00 PM, Saturday, December 21st, 2024
The night seems to offer an alternate spiritual self, and so, the noisy and chaotic nightlife becomes a playground where people freely release their desires. While fulfilling the need for leisure, it brings immense joy and satisfaction. This intense, dopamine-driven sensation allows people to experience immediate "pleasure" that quickly turns into "addiction." As a result, the nightlife, filled and wrapped in dopamine, becomes a place where men and women depend on their emotions. In this environment, identities blur, social relationships lose significance, and only the relentless and uncaring pulsation of dopamine continues to circulate infinitely. It seems that, in a sense, total immersion has become a temporary mental state for some contemporary youth.
For a long time, Gao Yingpu's works have appeared to showcase a kind of nighttime adrenaline, one that mirrors the explosive force of youth, releasing impulses, chaos, and fleeting brilliance after piercing the nerves. In Gao Yingpu's creations, one often sees the magical reflections of people in midnight settings. Under dim lighting, bodies, sunglasses, hair, nails, and rising smoke all shimmer with a cold glow. The bodies twist and turn, and souls gradually begin to drift. In those moments of drifting, shadow-like tremors occur, resembling a fleeting time difficult to capture with the naked eye. At that moment, time may not need to be excessively brilliant in the daylight; the present feels like eternity and beauty.
As the artist says: “Youth may fade, but its essence takes on new forms and stays with us throughout life. My yearning for a better world is something instinctive.”
ABOUT ARTIST
Gao Yingpu born in Jilin in 1993, graduated from the Multidimensional Expression Studio at the China Academy of Art in 2016, and currently lives and works in Hangzhou. Gao Yingpu’s creative endeavors encompass painting and painted installations. His works reflect his contemplation on the relationship between individuals and local consumption, how they collide and integrate in the cultural migration akin to monsoons and ocean currents, aiming to manifest both the collective and the personal. His works have been exhibited at venues including Shanghai K11, Shanghai Oil Tank Art Center and the Beijing CAFAM Biennial.
Selected exhibitions include: Bodyscapes in motion，ShanghART SUHE，Shanghai（2024）；Opening Exhibition, Hunsand Space，Shijiazhuang（2024）；Dive into Midnight, dual solo exhibition, East Gallery, Nanjing（2023）；If There is Strong Wind Tomorrow, solo project, martin-goya business, Shanghai（2022）；Sunglasses in the Dark, Gene Gallery, Shanghai（2021）；Martin Goya Graphic, Martin Goya Business, Tank Shanghai（2021）；ASIA NOW Paris，Martin Goya Business，Paris（2020）；etc.
