Group Exhibition Yuz Museum, Shanghai
Chapter 1: Aug.10 to Oct.7, 2024
Chapter 2: Oct.19, 2024 to Mar.2, 2025
As a special exhibition of Yuz Museum 10th anniversary, “Out of Silence” unfolded in two chapters, the first of which opened to the public from August 10 to October 20, 2024, and the second will open from December 3, 2024 to March 2, 2025. Each chapter features a selection of more than 20 groups of works by contemporary Chinese and international artists from the collection of Yuz Foundation. Taking sound that is represented or implied as a clue, the exhibition will follow the trajectory of “traces” and “signs” that Yuz Foundation and Yuz Museum (YUZ) are committed to preserving since the early years of collection, presenting the hidden power of these artworks through listening to the subtle or forgotten voices within them.
The first chapter presented a selection of site-specific practices and large-scale commissions created for Yuz in its previous venues, reflecting on many artists’ masterpieces with breakthrough and transformative significance and their ambitious conceptions realized on the platforms built by YUZ. Most of the works in the exhibition reveal the creative process of the artists who integrate their individual thread of life with diverse historical, cultural and social backgrounds. Seemingly calm and silent, the works are nevertheless rich in ideological dimensions and expansive in spiritual world, nurturing a surge of booming power. They carry private emotions and feelings, and reflect the syndromes of society and the times, which not only condense the past, but also still apply to the present, and even foretell a certain visible future. The hidden power within the works leads us to “the deafening silence” and the experience of vigorous vitality, and at the same time alerts us to the fact that the history is not yet gone, while the future is already here.
The second chapter will follow the trajectory that began in the early years of YUZ collection, to rethink the position of the collection in the process of “history” and “future” and the relative relationship between them. It will focus on some artists’ long-term practice on a specific theme. They record the flow of life and landscape through the accumulation of time, space and material, continually keeping track of the vibrating sound out of silence on the stage of life and history.The exhibition “Out of Silence” is organized by Yuz Museum and curated by Wen Shi, Curator at Yuz Museum.
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