Ding Shiwei
DING SHIWEI
Ding Shiwei born in Heilongjiang Province in 1989, holds an MFA degree from the School of Intermedia Art at the China Academy of Art and now lives and works in Hangzhou, China.
His works unfold in various mediums such as video installations, sculptures, images, videos, and interactive installations based on the experience of the screen. He invokes and appropriates a wide range of ideological discourses,popular images, and philosophical symbols, opening up the viewer's perceptual channels through the media interface, filtering and intervening with the individual's degraded user experience, thus revealing the screen landscape as an anti-utopian self-fulfilling prophecy of contemporary politics and beliefs. As a mediator between the material world and the digital simulacrum, the screen is constantly involved in reshaping and disciplining the viewer's body. On the one hand, his works re-pierce the viewer's silently alienated interface body and the observation senses, and on the other hand, ultimately adopting "kawaiification" as the categorical imperative to obscure the fanged structure, they constantly stitch together the real and virtual branching in a paradoxical perception of wit and pain.
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2024 Specter's Ventriloquism, Hunsand Space, Beijing, China
2023 The Window, 1000Press, Hangzhou, China
2021 Faith on Tap, Gallery Vacancy, Shanghai, China
2020 Enter The Void, ImagokineticsLab, Hangzhou, China
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2024 Embodied Rituals, Timesmuseum, Guangzhou, China
2024 The Show Must Go On, Simple One, Beijing, China
2023 Motion is Action: 35 Years of Chinese Media Art, By Art Matters, Hangzhou, China
2023 X Museum Triennial 2023: Home Is Where the Haunt Is, X Museum, Beijing, China
2023 Friends in the Arts: Exhibitions of Chinese Collectors, Tank Shanghai, Shanghai, China
2023 The Interface of Janus, Space 185 of Bund Art Center, Shanghai, China
2022 The Exhibition of Annual of Contemporary Art of China 2021, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
2022 How Many Times, I Have Left My Everyday Life, 69 ART CAMPUS, Beijing, China
2022 Violence at the Exceptional Moments Math, Diction and Knives, Surplus Space, Wuhan, China
2021 Existence, Wind H Art Center, Beijing, China
Ding was the recipient of a special award for the Prix Videoformes in Clermont-Ferrand, France, in 2015 and a silver medalist of the Chinese Film Festival in Washington D.C., US, in 2014.His animated short films had screenings at various international film festivals, including Festival International du Film d'Animation d'Annecy, Holland International Animation Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, and Tampere Film Festival. His work is featured in the collections of Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, DK; CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, CN; Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing, CN; By Art Matters, Hangzhou, CN; etc.
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