2024-12-11 10:39
Dots Project is honored to present artist Su Chang's solo project "Picnic" on June 18th, collaborated with ShanghART Gallery for the first project in FOG Wild Space.
Early this spring, the artist conducted a two-month-long live practice in the renowned ShanghART Gallery M50 resulted in the placement of five giant sculptures in the space. They squeeze, curl and stretch against each other, guiding and dominating the viewers' track, creating a "hole" that links people and the city.
Subsequently, these variously shaped giant sculptures were moved across Shanghai, from a boiler house downtown to Pujiang Country Park, 20 kilometers away from the urban bustle for permanent placement. The project contains two parts, first is the gradual integration and symbiosis of the sculptures in nature. The sculptures, completed to the maximum extent within a limited space, lies deep in the forest, forming a long-lasting dialogue between nature and sculpture. Over time, they become interdependent and mutually influential, shaping each other like waves and sand. The slow process of degradation is a picnic in nature: eventually, the sculptures exposed in the woods will be chewed and eaten by time.
The second part is the reconstitution of the remains after the disintegration. When the irreversible act of dismantling occurs on the sculpture, the internal structure presents an uncontrollable contingency effect. These handcrafted aesthetics between accident and artificiality are carefully selected and reassembled, stacked in the polished white space, striking the eye of the artist and the spectators. The act itself is also the artist's challenge towards viewing. Each fragment from the division of the complete sculpture will be displayed individually. These exposed sculptural scars will be perceived and appreciated by the visitors again in an aesthetic dimension by the spectator.
The artist's reflections always insist on awakening the subconscious body's "viewing", a psychological perception is often more real than the visual experience. The repetitive life routine creates a hybrid form between the physical space and the person. His sculptures discuss this uncertain yet veridical feeling. This mixed experience and memory of perception, projected onto the remnants of reality through our physical sensations, leads the artist to think more about the connection between objects and people, and this link is also mapped to the city and people.
This project is also the second fermentation of Su Chang’s solo exhibition "Hole". On June 18, the entrance leads to the "Hole" will reopen to the public, and the duration depends on the sculptures' gradual deterioration under natural states. The artist Su Chang invites visitors to a fading "picnic" by the Huangpu River.
关于艺术家 | About Artist
Su Chang（b.1985）was born and grew up in Shanghai. He firmly uses the language of sculpture as a vehicle for his artistic experimentation. The re-understanding and independent practice of the intrinsic nature of sculpture runs through his ongoing work. Su Chang hopes to digest and produce a new language based on ordinary visual elements. Using his works to examine the wavering of people in the intersection of public and personal anxieties, as well as the traces left in psychology by such vague behavior. Recent solo exhibitions include: Hole, ShanghART M50, Shanghai(2021); Sculptural Practice, West Bund Art & Design Special Exhibition, Shanghai (2020); Temporary Space, Sifang Art Museum Project Space, Shanghai (2018); Way Out, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou (2018); Breath, AIKE, Shanghai (2017); Trails, Don Gallery, Shanghai (2015).
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展期 | Duration
森林 | 2021/06/18 – 时间的深处
展厅内部 | 2021/06/18-2021/09/19（周三 – 周日Thur. - Sun. 10:00-18:00）
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