Su Chang: Across
2024-05-15 17:48

ShanghART Shanghai (West Bund) is pleased to present Su Chang’s solo exhibition "Across", opening on 18 May 2024, featuring the artist’s latest plaster sculptures, which will also be the last exhibition of the space.

Su Chang has been working loosely in recent years. He wandered into cities and nature, exploring the hidden unconscious movements, and reacting to a constantly changing external environment.

The new series of works reveals how Su comprehends the "gesture" of river movement. The submerged or emergent riverbeds, islands, streams, and slopes are reformed through multiple displacements, analogies, and translocations, where the gestures of the body and the objects are extended, thus the artist’s attitude is shaped. Island (2024) is a representation of the “invisible”, the flattened, enlarged, and folded material is a projection of perception between "I" and space. Therefore, the self-image in Self Reading (2024) again confirms the cross-species "ecology of selves" mentioned above and echoes the artist's series of “Interim Space”, which are based on Su’s independent work. These works are exhibited just before the relocation of the gallery's West Bund space as if they are looking out to the flowing Huangpu River afar.

Su Chang's sculpture is not a "result" but a "process" mixed with experience and memory, a channel to "Across", an intermediary/interim structure for entry (or escape). It is a "process" mixed with experience and memory. Within a wider spatial and temporal context created by the artist, the relationship between the sculpture and the flux of the outside world is constantly reshaped by the viewer's gaze.

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