GROUP EXHIBITION

By breaking the instrumental dominance of humans over things, the artists make the body a flow channel for perceiving the outside which connects humans and objects directly. In Chen Xiaoyun’s image language, the partial body constitutes the image as a symbolic abstract element, producing a metaphorical narrative in the interaction with objects. Li Shan co-constructs the human body and animals in his “Bio-Art” which breaks the boundaries of human self-centeredness. Liu Yi’s animation work “Burning” borrows the body as a spiritual transmitter to pass on fervency and passion.

In the exhibition, the body actions involve people in certain environments, where artists may achieve a meshing between the consciousness and the spiritual space, physical space, and social space. In Chen Wei’s artificial landscape, the traces of the body suggest the absence of people, while the ambiguous space implies fragments of realism. The plaster sculptures by Su Chang take the body as a sensational medium to reach the physical space, projecting the extending perception inward. On the other hand, the actions of the body intervene in social space. The video work Shouting by Xu Zhen, one of his representative early performance works, hides the actions behind the camera but still disturbs the crowd’s order through shouting. Yao Qingmei’s video work Spectrum I also intervenes in public space through the body, collaging the ballet dancer’s gestures image with the real-time image from the phone held by her, forming a multi-layered intertextual relationship with historical images and continuously interrogating the established rules of power.