“海滩—刘雨佳个展”将于10月7日开幕

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  海   滩 —— 刘雨佳个展

  艺  术  家:刘雨佳

  策  展  人:鲁明军

  开幕时间:2017.10.7,  4pm

  展览时间:2017.10.7—11.8

  展览地点:当代唐人艺术中心第一空间

  当代唐人艺术中心北京荣幸地宣布,将于2017年10月7日推出艺术家刘雨佳个展《海滩》,展出艺术家最新创作的以“海滩”为主题的影像、动画及装置作品。展览由鲁明军担任策展人。

  2015年底,刘雨佳只身来到新疆克拉玛依某能源工业基地。在近一个月的时间里,她置身于这一混合着戈壁和雅丹地貌的奇景中,完成了《黑色海洋》的拍摄。这部受卡尔维诺《看不见的城市》启发的影像,透过对现代变迁中的边疆及其韧性与脆弱的描绘和刻划,建构了一部被毁灭与被建造的魅影般的风景叙事。然而其目的并非是吟唱一首现代边疆的挽歌,而是意图在这一被合理性所包围的蛮荒之地,探触一种新的感知和行动的潜能。

  一年多后,她推出了新项目《海滩》(2017)。严格说,它是《黑色海洋》的一个延伸。不同在于,此次她将视角转移至海滩。介于陆地与海洋之间的海滩,不属于其中任何地方,却兼有二者的特征。它不仅是边界,同时也是一个仿佛边疆一样的过渡地带。

  项目由五件/组独立又相关的新作构成,都是围绕“海滩”这一主题或母题诉诸不同维度的叙事。刘雨佳遍览相关的文本和网络资源,从中撷取了诸多视频档案和图片素材,其中有我们熟悉的二战联军登陆法国诺曼底海滩,悉尼邦迪海滩冲浪,美国迈阿密海滩度假的场景,还有相对陌生的埃及亚历山大港、巴西里约热内卢、拉丁美洲马丁尼克岛等海滩的场景。很难想象,时尚广告中的海滩,笛福小说中的海滩,弗里德里希绘画中的海滩,叙利亚度假海滩,还有难民登陆的海滩,以及作为日常集市的印度海滩等等,它们之间有什么直接的联系。然而在此,这些素材或档案却被建构为一个交织着性别与阶级、种族与地缘、贸易与冲突、欲望和杀戮、扩张与退让、自由与恐惧等各种不同政治、文化和心理状态的特殊场域。

  年初,她来到泰国芭堤雅附近的柯兰岛,目光却聚焦在一个落魄的流浪汉身上。在她朴素的影像叙述中,流浪汉传奇的经历就是一部海滩的寓言。和W.J.T。米歇尔(W.J.T.Mitchell)眼中的风景一样,海滩并非只是拜物教的对象,本身即是一个复杂的政治社会机体。它是一个放逐自我的自由地带,而同时,因为禁令,它也可能会成为一个被规制的区域;因为战争,还可能会成为一个屠戮的现场;因为资本,它又常常是一个消费与被消费的空间。它既是一个现代性的化身,同时又内含着强烈的反现代性。身处在碰撞、交融、冲突和断裂的全球化时代,刘雨佳无意书写一部海滩的文化史或地理志,她真正关心的是,当我们尝试将其重新编织为一部新的叙事的时候,它是如何被形塑为一个新的地缘结构和感知方式。就像鲁滨逊发现海滩上脚印的那一刻,它不仅带来了惊讶与恐惧,同时也激发了人的智慧和想象。在这里,海滩既是边境、边疆和地缘政治的隐喻,同时也已超越了其既有的定义而生长为一种新的审美介质和想象机制。

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 生活并不意味着安逸,这是在让事情更难办   Life wasn’t meant to be easy,This is making things hard

 四频GIF动画装置,Four channel GIF animation installation

彩色,无声,Color,Silent

循环, Loop,2017

  关于艺术家

  刘雨佳,1981年出生于四川,2004年毕业于四川美术学院,2009年硕士毕业于伦敦艺术大学传媒学院。目前工作、生活于北京。

  近期展览主要有: “刘雨佳个展:眩晕”,当代唐人艺术中心,北京(2016);“刘雨佳个展:第三人”,沪申画廊,上海(2015); “何不再问?”,第11届上海双年展,上海当代艺术博物馆,上海(2016); “复活”计划-据点的再生,剩余空间,武汉(2017); “万丈高楼平地起”—第二届长江国际影像双年展,重庆长江当代美术馆,重庆(2017); “化学之爱”,当代唐人艺术中心北京第一空间,北京(2017);“所见非所见”,影像旧金山,旧金山,美国(2017);“使我行动TAKE ME OUT”,chi K11美术馆,上海(2016);“新一代艺术实践中的影像表达”,西安美术馆,西安(2016); “影像景观”,OCT当代艺术中心,上海(2015);“物体系”,民生现代美术馆,上海(2015);“光映现场”,香港巴塞尔艺术展影像单元,香港(2015)等。

  关于策展人

  鲁明军,历史学博士。四川大学艺术学院美术学系副教授。主要从事现当代艺术史、艺术批评与理论的研究、教学与实践。论文见于《文艺研究》、《美术研究》、《二十一世紀》等刊物。近著有《书写与视觉叙事:历史与理论的视野》(2013)、《视觉认知与艺术史:福柯、达弥施、克拉里》(2014)、《论绘画的绘画:一种艺术机制与普遍性认知》(2015)等。2015 年起兼任剩余空间艺术总监。2015 年获得何鸿毅家族基金中华研究奖助金。2016 年获得 YiShu 中国当代艺术写作奖。2017 年获得美国亚洲文化协会奖助金。

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  The Beach, A Fantasy:

  A Liu Yujia Solo Exhibition 

  Artist: Liu Yujia

  Curator: Lu Mingjun

  Opening: 2017.10.7,  4pm

  Dates: 2017.10.7 - 11.8

  Venue: Tang Contemporary Art Space I

  Tang Contemporary Art Beijing is proud to announce the opening of “The Beach, A Fantasy,” a solo show for artist Liu Yujia, on October 7, 2017。 Curated by Lu Mingjun, the exhibition will present the artist’s recent video, animation, and installation works centered on the beach。

  At the end of 2015, Liu Yujia traveled alone to an energy industry site in Karamay, Xinjiang。 Over the course of nearly a month, she immersed herself in the spectacle of the Gobi and the yardangs in shooting Black Sea。 Inspired by Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities, this video constructs a demonic yet scenic narrative that is both created and destroyed through the presentation of modern changes taking place in the border areas and the toughness and fragility of these areas。 The piece does not sing an elegy for a modern borderland; it intends to explore a new, latent energy for perception and action in a savage land enveloped by rationality。

  More than a year later, she presented a new project The Beach, A Fantasy (2017)。 Strictly speaking, it is an extension of Black Sea, but the difference is that Liu has shifted her focus to the beach。 Situated between dry land and the ocean, the beach belongs to neither side, but has the traits of both。 The beach is a boundary, but it is also a frontier, liminal space。

  The project is comprised of five independent yet interrelated new works, all focused on different narrative dimensions of the beach as a theme or motif。 Liu has perused large amounts of print and online resources, selecting video documentation and pictorial imagery, including familiar scenes of the beach at Normandy, where Allied forces landed during World War II, Sydney’s Bondi Beach, and Miami beach vacations, as well as relatively unfamiliar scenes from Alexandria’s port, Rio de Janeiro, and Martinique。 It is hard to imagine what direct relationships could possibly exist between the beaches in lifestyle advertising, in Daniel Defoe’s books, and in Friedrich’s paintings, as well as the beaches of Syrian resorts, the beaches on which refugees arrived, and the beaches that serve as daily markets in India。 Thus, these materials have created a special realm that knits together the different political, cultural, and psychological states of gender and class, race and region, trade and conflict, desire and massacre, expansion and recession, freedom and terror。

  At the beginning of this year, when she traveled to Ko Lan, an island near Pattaya in Thailand, she focused her attention on a vagrant down on his luck。 In her film, the miraculous experience of a vagrant is an allegory of the beach。 As in W。 J。 T。 Mitchell’s views on landscape, the beach is not simply a fetishistic object; it is a complex socio-political organism。 It is a free zone of self-exile, and at the same time, because of taboos, it can become a regulated area; because of war, it can become the site of a massacre; because of capital, it is often a space of consuming and being consumed。 The beach is an embodiment of modernity, while also containing intense anti-modernity。 In a globalized era of collision, blending, conflict, and fragmentation, Liu Yujia has inadvertently written a cultural history or geographical treatise on beaches, but what she truly cares about is how it is shaped into a new geographical structure and perceptual method when we attempt to weave it into a new narrative。 Like Robinson Crusoe discovering footprints on the beach, this gives rise to surprise and fear, while inspiring wisdom and imagination。 Here, the beach is a metaphor for frontiers, borders, and geographic politics; it also transcends existing definitions and grows into a new aesthetic medium and imaginative mechanism。 


柯兰岛  The Koh Larn Island 

单频高清录像  Single channel HD video

彩色,有声 Color, Sound

14’47”,2017

  ABOUT ARTIST

  Liu Yujia was born in Sichuan Province in 1981。 She graduated from Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in 2004 and got her Master’s Degree in London College of Communication, University of the Arts London in 2009。 She currently lives and works in Beijing。 

  Recent exhibitions include: Liu Yujia Solo Exhibition: Vertigo, Tang Contemporary Art Center, Beijing, 2016; Liu Yujia Solo Exhibition: The Third Man, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, 2015; Why Not Ask Again? 11th Shanghai biennale,PSA,Shanghai , 2016;Resurrection-The Regeneration of Strongholds, Surplus Space, Wuhan, 2017;Rip It Up!- 2nd ChangJiang International Photography and Video Biennale, Chongqing Changjiang Museum of Contemporary Art, 2017;A Chemical Love Story,Tang Contemporary Art Beijing, Beijing, 2017;Leap Screen: “What you see is not what you see”, Photofairs San Francisco, 2017;Take me out, chi K11 Art Museum, Shanghai, 2016; The Image Expression In the Art Practice of New Generation, Xi’An Art Museum, Xi’An, 2016; Moving Image programme,OCT Contemporary Art Terminal,Shanghai, 2015; The System of Objects, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, 2015; The Film Sector, Art Basel HK, Hong Kong, 2015。 

  ABOUT CURATOR

  Lu Mingjun has a PhD in History from Sichuan University (2011)。 He is currently Associate Professor of Art History at Art College, Sichuan University。 Lu’s research interests include history of modern and contemporary art。 His thesis was found in Literature & Art Studies, Art Studies, 21st Century, Artforum,Leap, etc。。His recent books include Writing and Narrating of Vision: The Vision of History and Theory (2013); Visual Cognition and Art History: Michel Foucault, Hubert Damisch, Jonathan Crary (2014); and On Meta-Painting: An Art Institution and Cognition of Universality (2015)。Since 2015,he held the post of artistic director of Surplus Space。 The Robert H。 N。 Ho Family Foundation Greater China Research Grant 2015 Grantee。 He received the 2016 Yishu Awards for Writing on Contemporary Chinese Art.He was ACC fellowship award reciplents from China。

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柯兰岛  The Koh Larn Island 

单频高清录像  Single channel HD video

彩色,有声 Color, Sound

14’47”,2017

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