无根之花 Groundless Flower
艺术家：王业丰
艺术总监：李力
策展人：林昱、阳昕
展期：2025年5月18日 – 2025年10月12日
展览地点：H18，当代艺术馆，上海玻璃博物馆
Artsit: Frank WANG Yefeng
Art Director: Lise Li
Curator: Aimee Lin, Cathye Yang
Duration: May 18 – October 12, 2025
Venue: H18, Shanghai Museum of Glass
关于展览 ABOUT EXHIBITION
当深远而细小的过去被投影到浅而大的此刻，当无人机成为人的感官的延伸并像人的感官一样不可靠……《无根之花》讲的是一个无足轻重的人，如何在由浅入深的时间和不稳定的空间里确认乃至重写自己的存在。
故事发生在位于中国甘肃省和青海省交界处的无人区。艺术家王业丰迷路了。于是，被刚才的理智认定为不变的风景，变成了浩瀚的、不稳定的时空，行走于其中或仅仅是凝望着这种行走，便足以使人产生眩晕。
对于站在更宏大的时间尺度观察世界的地质学家而言，如果待得足够久，一切都会流动，石头甚至整块大陆也不例外。而对于只有自己的肉身和艺术家的技能的王业丰而言，却是迷路之际的眩晕让他打破了一切事物与认知的界限，并由此展开一场个人的神话叙事。
by 林昱
沙漠，这片被时间与风塑造的场域，亦与玻璃本身有着深层的物质关联。沙子是玻璃的前身，它在高温中被熔炼、重塑，经历从粗粝到澄明的转变。此次艺术家王业丰进入“退火”项目，也是他对“材料-记忆-感知”关系的回火与回望——沙子、玻璃、沙漠，这三者在此交叠，构成了一条贯穿物质、时间与想象的路径，使《无根之花》的诞生，拥有了更为深刻的物质羁绊与情感联系。
玻璃在此次展览中扮演核心角色。《芳罗飞天》系列与《芳罗然》系列融合玻璃灯工与3D打印工艺，在自由与理性之间构建出仿若演化中的“混种生命体”。《沙漠碎片》系列则首次在“退火”项目中运用玻璃粉烧技法，细腻粉末经高温熔融与冷却，生成介于掌控与偶然之间的肌理，使雕塑呈现出绘画般的视觉层次，在坚硬与柔软、确定与变异之间不断游移。
《无根之花》中的花朵，是贯穿全作的意象，却既未真正扎根，也未完全脱离，象征一种始终处于调整和平衡中的临界存在，展现了一则关于游离、变动与重构的当代表达。
by 阳昕
When a distant, minute past is projected onto the flat vastness of the present; when a flying drone becomes an equally unreliable extension of human perception… Groundless Flower tells the tale of an insignificant individual seeking to affirm, even rewrite, their very existence within the deepening time and unsettling space.
The story unfolds in the no-man’s land at the junction of Gansu and Qinghai provinces in China. Artist Frank WANG Yefeng is lost. The landscape, so rationally deemed static before, now transforms into a boundless, shifting expanse. Walking through it, or even witnessing such a gesture of walking, can induce vertigo.
To geologists who observe the world through the lens of deep time and with enough patience, everything eventually flows—even hard rocks and entire continents. But for Frank WANG Yefeng who is equipped with nothing but his body and his artist’s technique, it is the dizziness of disorientation that shatters all boundaries between things and their meanings. At this moment, a personal mythos begins to unfold.
by Aimee Lin
Glass plays an essential role in this exhibition. The Florapsaras series and the Faulora series merges glass flameworking and 3D printing techniques, creating hybrid, quasi-evolving lifeforms suspended between freedom and rationality. The Fragment of Sand series marks the inaugural application of pâte de verre in the Annealing program. Delicate glass granules fuse under high temperatures, then set into textures that linger between precision and accidents. The resulting sculptures evoke painterly visual depth, oscillating between hardness and softness, stillness and transformation.
The flowers in Groundless Flower are a recurring motif—neither truly rooted nor entirely detached. They embody a liminal existence in perpetual reassessments and equilibrium, showcasing a contemporary narrative of adrift, change, and reconstruction.
by Cathye Yang
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