平坦 Plain
策展人:李力
展览时间:2016年11月9日-2017年2月26日
展览地点:上海玻璃博物馆园区5号楼一楼
主办方:上海玻璃博物馆/Vanguard Gallery
展览规划及平面设计:协调亚洲
Curator: Lise Li
Duration: November 9, 2016- February 26, 2017
Venue: 1st Floor, No.5 Building, Shanghai Museum of Glass Park
Organizer: Shanghai Museum of Glass/Vanguard Gallery
Exhibition Planning and Graphic Design: COORDINATION ASIA Ltd.
关于展览 ABOUT EXHIBITION
物质处于永恒的运动当中。凡是物质就必然占据空间,而运动意味着时间的轴线处于其中。我们在认识事物的过程中倾向于简化并降低它的维度以构建系统。点、线、面,其实都是我们对于事物广延属性的想像。然而如绝对的直线并不存在一样,平面也只是存在于我们的想像。平坦并不是事物的属性,而是我们对于世界极限的想像,是我们对于事物状态从虚空中的截取。与其说它是事物的属性不如说它更接近于人思维的属性。但更为复杂的是即使是一个简单平面上发生的事件,在时间中都意味着它在时间轴线上无尽的延绵。同时这个平面上的运动,即使是一滴水在一个平面上产生的涟漪,也会受着平面下的隐藏的水深的不同而产生完全不同的速度变化。它们在时间的轴线中,更会产生完全不同的延展。平坦的属性只存在于我们思维的“此刻”这个瞬间,有如飞鸟不动。我们也只能在“此刻”运用我们的想像,去思考平坦的全貌。
Materials are perpetually moving. Everything that is material must occupy a space, and movement means that that the axis of time is within. During the course of recognizing things, we tend to simplify them and reduce their dimensions in order to create a system. Points, lines, planes … In fact, they are the means by which we imagine the extensibility of things. But if straight lines didn’t exist, then surfaces would only exist in our imagination. Flatness is not a property of things, but the way we imagine the limits of the world – when it comes to the state of things, it’s our interception of the void. Rather than saying they are objects, it would be better to say they are more approximate to human intellect. Adding to the complexity is that they are an event occurring on a simple surface; in the midst of time, this means they are infinitely extensible on the axis of time. In addition, the movement on this plane is both the ripples of a drop of water on the surface, and also subject to entirely different changes in speed due to the different depths of water hidden beneath the surface. In the axis of time, wholly different extensions are produced. The property of ‘Plain’ only exists in the “moment” of our thoughts, like a flying bird rendered immobile. In this “moment”, we can also only use our imagination to ponder the whole picture of flatness.
关于艺术家 ABOUT ARTIST
廖斐,1981年生于江西,2006年毕业于上海师范大学,现工作、生活于上海。
廖斐的工作是从对周围事物以及自身的疑惑开始,廖斐一方面对于二元抱有强烈的怀疑,另一方面又对于在二元的基础上产生的美感有着强烈的兴趣。这促使他从2011年开始以“物质”为线索进行创作实践。并逐渐地将工作的范围扩展到在二元基础上建立的尺度,以及系统本身。他持续关注认知系统的建构与运作问题,以及权力规训在空间规划中的呈现方式, 通过装置、影像等多种媒介揭示看似合理的表象所隐含的悖谬之处。近期展览包括:“疆域:地缘的拓扑”,OCAT研究中心,北京,中国(2018); “广延”,Vanguard画廊,上海,中国(2018个展); “室内宇宙:2017华宇青年奖入围艺术家群展”,华宇艺术中心,三亚,中国(2017); “上海星空Ⅱ”,余德耀美术馆,上海,中国(2017); “今日之往昔——第1届安仁双年展”,华侨城,成都,中国(2017); “在日落后发生…”,上海当代艺术馆艺术亭台,上海,中国(2017); “球场”,中央美术学院美术馆,北京,中国(2017); “例外状态:中国境况与艺术考察 2017”,尤伦斯当代艺术中心,北京,中国(2017);第11届上海双年展“何不再问:正辩,反辩,故事”,上海当代艺术博物馆,上海,中国(2016-2017); “平坦”,上海玻璃博物馆,上海,中国(2016个展); “视角”,YveYang 画廊,波士顿,美国(2016个展); “赤道”,Vanguard 画廊,上海,中国(2016个展)。
Liao fei, born in Jiangxi in 1981. He graduated from Shanghai Normal University in 2006. He is now Based in Shanghai.
For Liao Fei, working begins from the doubts he had about surroundings and himself. Liao has strong suspect about duality, but on the other hand, he holds severe interest in the aesthetic feeling based on that. This has encouraged him to practice his creation and took “material” as a clue from 2011. He gradually expanded his working scope to the measurement based on duality and the system itself. He continuously pays close attention to the construction and operation of cognitive system, and the presentation of power discipline in the spatial planning. He uses installation, video and other channels to reveal the absurdity under the seemingly reasonable surface. Recent exhibitions include: Frontier: Re-assessment of Post-Globalisational Politics,OCAT Institute, Beijing,China(2018); Res Extensa, Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai, China(2018 solo exhibition); the 5th Huayu Youth Award, Huayu Art Center, Sanya, China(2017); Shanghai Galaxy Ⅱ, Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China(2017); Today’s Yesterday – Anren Biennial, OCAT, Chengdu, China(2017); All happens after sunset…, MOCA Pavilion, Shanghai , China(2017); Any Ball,CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China(2017); The New Normal: China, Art, and 2017, UCCA, Beijing, China(2017); The 11th Shanghai Biennale “Why Not Ask Again: Arguments, Counter-arguments, and Stories”, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China(2016-2017); Plain, Shanghai Museum of Glass, Shanghai, China(2016 solo exhibition); Perspective, YveYang Gallery, Boston, USA(2016 solo exhibition); The Equater, Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai, China(2016 solo exhibition).