About The Artist: Lou Nengbin
Lou Nengbin graduated from the Fourth Studio of the Printmaking Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2021 and currently lives and works in Beijing. Lou Nengbin's previous works include various media, such as printmaking, sculpture, and sound installations.
About The Curator: Yao Siqing
Dr.Yao Siqing graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts-School of Humanities and Department of Chinese of Sun Yat-sen University, Former college lecturer. Currently live in Beijing and work as an independent scholar and curator.
Critique Room originates from the Studio Gallery's long-standing artistic attitude, which emphasises the art scene and focuses on communication and critique. Artists can sort out the perceptual experience of the working process from the communication with others; participants can learn to watch and find their own perspective and viewpoint from the work of others.
In the Critique room 1, artist Lou Nengbin collaborated with curator Yao Siqing to bring the sound installation Will The Circle Be Unbroken created for the gallery's mirrored promenade space. The name of the work comes from the famous sentence in 'The Reed', —Where's she I need, beyond the stream. Upstream I go, the way is long. Downstream I go, she's there among.
The creation is based on linear time, and the sound theory is translated into a spherical space structure equidistant from the past and future. The future believes that each individual is acting in history. Their present is as beautiful as the sphere's centre protruding from the centre of the tide of time. Therefore, Just like the 'Yiren' in ancient Chinese poems, it is worth yearning for. The artist created the sound and sound field at the same time according to the characteristics of the exhibition site. The sound source comes from two kinds of bells of the customs building in different periods, and the related data of the tidal phenomenon is acoustically converted to form a regular mirror fugue. Through the live broadcast of the directional sound equipment, the sound field will change with the audience's arrival. The subject's observation of Will The Circle Be Unbroken is also triggered when the reverberation of time is added to the behaviour.
Press release courtesy Studio Gallery.
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