Group Exhibition Unique Art Center, Chengdu
The "Time Gravity - 2023 Chengdu Biennale" scheduled to open on July 16th will bring together over 200 artists from around the world with more than 400 artworks, along with 24 parallel exhibitions. In July, Chengdu will witness the convergence of the World University Games and the city's art festival, where the beauty of sports meets the beauty of art. The "Parallel Exhibition Plan" of this Chengdu Biennale is an extension of showcasing local art and the art ecosystem, connecting to the "Star Chain" section of the main exhibition venue, forming a linkage between the thematic exhibition in the main venue and the parallel exhibitions and projects spread throughout the city. The aim is to use art to construct a cultural network for Chengdu as a whole, creating a three-dimensional and radiating effect for the Chengdu Biennale.
Bachelard once pointed out in "La Poétique de l'Espace（The Poetics of Space）" that "space is not a container for filling objects but a dwelling place for human consciousness. "We exist within space, and space exists within us, and it is a potent, vibrant, and potential presence. We "create space" rather than "occupy space." It is not only a place for individuals to participate in social activities but also a site for symbolic competition and personal strategies. The exhibition will approach the subject from the perspectives of space and context, exploring how we engage and coexist with the vast "external" world in the current context. It examines the collaborative forms between individuals and others, individuals and the city, and individuals and nature. The intertwinement of physical existence and escape, the construction and activation of urban landscapes and spaces, the generation of temporary installations and performances, and their integration with existing architecture are reinterpreted in mutual entanglement. Crowds flow, roam, and migrate outside the mainstream. The changing states of behavior driven by the pursuit of freedom and imagination not only alter the relationships between individuals and groups but also form new networks outside the mainstream system. This, in turn, brings about changes in social structures and generates new concepts of collective consciousness. Fluidity is a characteristic of the times, and within this fluidity, there is both disappearance and creation. Creation will bring about new trends and serve as a continuous internal driving force.The exhibition, based on the relationship between natural landscapes and urban spaces, dissolves the boundaries between internal/external spaces and between individuals and space by advancing layers of fluidity and vitality. Flow constitutes the generation and exchange of energy, and reality and fiction, history and the present, memory and forgetting are dissolved and reconstructed within the flow. It becomes a journey that transcends dimensions of time and space, connecting the present and memory, here and elsewhere, seeking, reminiscing, forgetting, and recalling, reconstructing what is missing in imagination. The blur and instability are represented through continuous transformations from observation to immersion.
The artists invited to this exhibition include Chen Weicai, Chen Qiulin, Chen Xiaoyi, Gao Yutao, Han Qian, Li Lang, Li Yongzheng, Liu Guangli, Luo Dan, Wang Ningde, Wen Hao, Zhang Xiao and Zhou Ziyue, presenting a total of 12 groups of their works and projects in photography, video and site-specific temporary installations. In addition, we have carefully selected more than 100 wonderful photography and video works by more than ten artists from the collection of Guangdong Museum of Art, trying to present to the audience the traces left to us by this era in the dramatic changes of history.As a "satellite" of the Chengdu Biennale, this exhibition presents local characteristics while also coordinating the cultural tension between the global and the local. Through a strong connection and close collaboration, it interacts with the main exhibition venue, forming new networks in a constantly shifting field, and creating a diverse reading and understanding that bridges the global and the local.
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