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Chen Qiulin

CHEN QIULIN

One Day A Thousand Plateaus Art Space 27 October–30 December 2018 Chengdu
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A Thousand Plateaus Art Space will present the artist Chen Qiulin‘s solo exhibition One Day on 27 October 2018. One Day is a project completed by Chen Qiulin from 2014 to 2016, which includes video, installation and photography. The project comes from the artist’s observation of women’s lives in remote mountainous areas in southeastern Guizhou province. One Day is not an idea of 24 hours in a general sense; it’s meant to describe the state of repetition. In order to create One Day, the artist goes deep into the villages of the Dong ethic group in southwestern China, where everything appears as something idyllic, almost isolated, in contrast to the hustle and bustle of the city. And the calm of the day after the day seemed to make the time frozen, and it is frightening. In China, women living in remote villages are not just far from modern urban life, their behaviours and even thoughts are also subject to local customs handed down from generation to generation. The most typical scenario is that they cannot enjoy equal status with men in family life. The ‘bed’ is the only private and free space for women living in the mountains. Therefore, in One Day, the bed appears in the installation, video and photography as the main subject matter to feature the local women, which have become the portrayal of indigenous women’s daily life.

Chen Qiulin puts her delicate observation and experience into her work. She discovered the women’s unsophisticated nature and awe for traditional norms on this land, and all these characteristics are endowed to them in the videos, which let the women like the orchids wandering in the streets. Qiulin uses the occult scenes to show the things that have been left by the modern civilisation environment, also the old tradition that has been marginalised but hardly to be abandoned. Through the combination of video, photography, installation and other media, the exhibition presents the observation and reflection on the life of women from the Dong ethnic group—the enclosed environment formed women’s silent character. The monotonous life state is not destined, but has become a kind of inevitable fate.

Chen Qiulin uses a restrained and plain way of creation to respond to the idiomatic artistic language ‘Spectacle’ in global contemporary art when it comes to the social, historical, and identity problems. This comes from her respect for individual life: any individual should not be a tool to speak of identity, but should be recognised and represented as itself.

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About the Artist

Chen Qiulin (1975 born in Yichang City, Hubei Province, now lives and works in Chengdu) graduated from Print Department of Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts in 2000. Her uses various media to create, including video, photography, installation and sculpture. Her creation is always in a state of continuous development and advancement and discusses issues in a new perspectives, which represents a unique sensitivity to social issues.

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About the Gallery

A Thousand Plateaus Art Space was founded in 2007 in Chengdu, China. It is a professional gallery committed to present and promote China’s contemporary art. Equipped with exhibition hall for artworks and collection and screening room for video data, it is mainly on researching, presenting and promoting outstanding works and experimental projects of China’s contemporary art and culture, actively carries out domestic and international cooperation projects.

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South Square
Tiexiang Temple Riverfront
Shengbang St., High-tech District
Chengdu
China
Opening Hours
Tuesday – Sunday
10:30am – 6:30pm

Closed Monday
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Chengdu South Square, Tiexiang Temple Riverfront
A Thousand Plateaus Art Space contemporary art gallery in Chengdu China
A Thousand Plateaus Art Space
South Square, Tiexiang Temple Riverfront, Shengbang St., High-tech District, Chengdu, China
+86 28 8512 6358
http://www.1000plateaus.org

Opening hours
Tuesday – Sunday
10:30am – 6:30pm

Closed Monday
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