Group Exhibition Laile Factory, Shanghai, No. 4221 Longwu Road
“风来树动 ”
The Wind and the Swaying Trees
2/26 - 4/10 2022
Curator: 施谏昉 Jianfang Shi 沈雨晴 Yuqing Shen
LAILE FACTORY is pleased to announce The Wind and the Swaying Trees, a group exhibition cooperates with Los Angeles-based art organization DOSE ART.
The exhibition featuring works by Chinese artists Chen Ping, Ji Wenyu & Zhu Weibing (artists group), Shen Fan, Shen Lieyi, Shen Ye, and American artists Lynn Aldrich, Carl Berg, Tim Ebner, Katy Ann Gilmore, Soo Kim, Nathan Redwood, and Augusta Wood. This is also LAILE FACTORY’s first exhibition project, and the opening reception will be held on February 26th , 2022.
The exhibition originated from an unexpected encounter. In the august of 2021, at the opening reception of an exhibition. My friend, Shanghai-based artist Caison Wang, introduced me to gallerists Yuqing and Chaoyi(Co-founders of DOSE) who had just returned from the United States. During our following communication, due to our different backgrounds and working experience, we not only talked about the working methods and artistic ecology based on the West Coast artists and Chinese contemporary artists, but also talked about how to maintain a healthy artistic living environment as much as possible as workers in the art industry. In view of this, we tried to find the answer through our own ideas. However, we found that our dialogue is not enough to be used as "evidence". Perhaps we can get the answer from the combing of long-term experience. Soon after, through our imagination, a contemporary art exhibition in inter-institutional, cross-regional, cross-cultural contexts and different historical perspectives seemed to come into our mind.
"The Wind and the Swaying Trees", when the wind blows the tree, is it the wind moving, the tree moving, or the speak of mind?, let me put it another way, "the wind in the heart" can blow the tree. Like artistic creation, this ancient proposition is a process of constant "heart beating", which is the understanding, test and question of one's own psychological state starting from "self-awareness"; The expression of the relationship between oneself and the objective world and "ideological diversity". In this exhibition, all works are inspired by the artist's long-term creative experience and his attention to social views, cultural symbols, nature worship, environment and other topics through the artist's working method and material application under the "self-awareness" as an individual. In the form of external visual language, the exploration and experience of internal consciousness can be independently expressed and presented in a variety of ways to conceptualize the world we see and perceive. In the exhibition, an exploratory proposition "is it the wind, the tree, or the the speak of mind?" be shown to the viewer.
Since the late 1970s, the artistic exchanges between Chinese contemporary art and the West have been unprecedentedly active and influenced each other. Chinese artists with their own cultural characteristics have carried out their creation with their own cultural context logic and way of thinking. Chinese contemporary art works with cultural roots have unique regionality, which has an impact on the subtle humanistic thought and artistic "language" system of artists. Works usually reflect a discussion focusing on "ideology" and "Oriental philosophy"; American contemporary art shows the characteristics of focusing on individuals, self-independence and critical significance due to its own historical characteristics. Their work usually presents a clearly directed daily experience and personal visual narrative in a more direct way, focusing on the exploration of art as a means of communication. This exhibition can be regarded as a "voice" in the context of globalization, which reflects that contemporary art is showing the characteristics and spiritual connotation of the times with "cosmopolitanism" and "commonality".
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