微物之神

东画廊很高兴宣布2023年3月11日，将呈现由策展人孙文杰所策划的展览“微物之神”。“微物之神”其中的作品通过绘画、装置、影像和刺绣等不同媒介，带来了马漓澧、覃小诗、田琦 、项恺阳、肖旭、赵谦这六位艺术家的新近创作。

Don Gallery is pleased to announce that on March 11, 2023, it will present the exhibition "The Gods of Small Things" curated by SUN Wenjie. "The Gods of Small Things" will include the latest work of six artists: MA Lili, QIN Xiaoshi, TIAN Qi, XIANG Kaiyang, XIAO Xu and ZHAO Qian. Media featured in this exhibition include painting, installation, video, and embroidery.

展览的作品扎根于日常的美学体验。艺术家们或越过屏幕分镜呈现动态的自然相交互；或创造“幻想-奇怪/神奇”般的生物穿插在内与外的展厅；或令观众在现实与失真场景中切换，从而凸显情境的非凡；或以书写追问生活的真实面貌；或通过刺绣再现传统神像；或者以装置的形式引导观众与华南海盗的传说再相遇。

The works on show are rooted in the everyday aesthetic experience. The artists transcend the screen to mirror natural interactions, intersperse strange fantasy creatures throughout the exhibition space, highlight the extraordinary by taking the audience’s perception back and forth between scenes of reality and distortion, pursue life’s truths through the written word, reproduce traditional gods through embroidery, or use installation to bring viewers back to the legendary tales of the Pirates of the South China Coast.

艺术家们的作品彼此呼应，呈现了现实世界与神话、民俗、幻想或者虚拟生物之间的共存状态。神话与民俗传说中的人物能够持续在创作中被引申，也因为神灵已然是以数字生命的形式存在，例如“封神榜”堪称中国历史上最大规模的一次数字生命上传活动。这些作品呈现的一些情境，不啻于是对传统——文化的一个断面的激活。尽管我们身处的现实世界仍然建立在工具理性的基础上，这种并存的虚实之间的暧昧关联，对人类社会的法则是否固若金汤提出了质疑。

The artists’ works echo each other, bringing reality into coexistence with myth, folklore, fantasy, and fictitious creatures. Through creation, figures from myth and folklore are given new life, but this is also because some gods already live on in digital life. For example, Investiture of the Gods (Fengsheng Bang) is hailed as the largest upload of digital life in Chinese history. Some of the situations presented in the artists’ work are no less an activation of a cross-section of traditional culture. Though the world we live in is still based on instrumental reality, the ambiguous relationship arising from the coexistence of fiction and reality raises doubts about the solidity of the laws that govern human society. 

“微物之神”以微距视角观察艺术家的创造，这些实践也如露珠般凝聚并折射着我们的生活面貌。植物、水流、涌动的人群与风的形状……过去我们称之为日常的一切都被卷入混乱的漩涡中，在停滞之后重新涌进我们的世界里来。在与这座城市共同经历了大流行那段时光之后，我们还能在个人生活中，在微小的日常中找到恒久、安心与托付感吗？是的，这里不见那些宏大的事物，满是琐屑的，貌似无用的小东西。或者说人们能够谈论的只是细小的事情，那未能提及的，尽在不言中。

"The Gods of Small Things" presents a macro view of the artist's imagination; like dewdrops, these works also condense and refract our lives. Plants, currents, surging crowds, the shape of the wind…everything that we call “the everyday” is drawn into a vortex of chaos to re-emerge after a period of stasis. After living through the pandemic in this city together, are we still able to find constancy, reassurance, and trust in our personal lives and in the minutiae of the everyday? True, nothing here is on a grand scale. The exhibition space is filled with trivial, seemingly pointless and small things. Or rather, only the small things remain for us to speak of, and everything that cannot be said is found in silence.