Press Release
ShanghART Beijing is pleased to present Liang Yue’s solo exhibition Intermittent on 5th March, 2016. It’s Liang Yue’s first solo exhibition in ShanghART Beijing. This exhibition will display 13 pieces of video works and three groups of photographs. In the space, audiences will find two interacted clues: one is intermittency and the other one is fleeting of life. These two clues constitute a power field of shadow, image and sound. The exhibition will last until 7th April, 2016.

In this exhibition, seemingly quiet videos and photographs present the artist’s sensitivity about living creatures and images of vitality, capturing live and energetic activities. Insects around the big tree at dusk, baby fishes in sparkling river in spring, epiphyllum painfully but beautifully blossoming in silence and so on, all show the aesthetics of the artist’s video works and photographs: seemingly static images are always full of vigor and viability.

Video language is extremely limited in Liang’s video works. The artist constantly simplifies and refines her artistic creation. In recent practice, Liang develops her exhibition languages. Through setting the video works in specific space, the artist creates connections between visual and meanings among works. Therefore, in this show, Liang accomplishes in setting up a kind of constellation exhibition languages rather than merely the specific video installation or exhibition. The artist always waits and hunts her elements in the nature and human environment without attention, purpose and publicity, thereby accomplishing the significance of video and waiting and declaring her attitude of the world and art.

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About the Artist

In Liang Yue’s works, either photos or videos, the ‘daily’ is always taken as a focus. She uses the easy-to-get materials with her acute art talents, keeps seeking, exploring and capturing the daily routines, and extending form concerning for the life in city to gazing the eternal scenery in the nature. A clear clue of her art practice could be witnessed in the massive works during the past fifteen years that the exploration for the beauty of insignificance, especially her videos, in which she keeps simplifying and abandoning the techniques of shooting and editing, challenging the art appreciation which the audience has been used to, as well as the viewers’ retina and eardrum, patience and rationality, and further questioning the so-called significance and value of art as she treats the meaningless as the ultimate significance of her creation. Her works remind us of the manifesto by Herzog stated in his Minnesota Declaration: Truth and Fact in Documentary Film, that:

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About the Gallery

ShanghART gallery was initiated in 1996 in Shanghai. It has since grown to become one of China’s most influential art institutions and a vital resource to the development of contemporary art in China with two spaces in 50 Moganshan Road (Main Space and H-Space), a public warehouse space in West of Shanghai (ShanghART Taopu), and a gallery space in Beijing and representing over 40 artists.

Being recognized for its importance ShanghART became the initial gallery from China participating in major international art fairs like Art Basel and Fiac, Paris. ShanghART gallery also enjoys the great respect of being among the 75 most influencial galleries selected in Thames & Hudson’s publication ‘International Art Galleries: Post-war to Post-millennium.’

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