半盐半咸

COSPACE与None Project将从2023年3月11日至5月14日联合呈现《半盐半咸》。此次将展出陈轩荣、高珊、黄立言、刘志成、孟煌、伍伟、张兰坡的多件作品。高珊的作品将在None Project独立展出。盐是客观物质，咸是味觉感知。这次我们邀请艺术家们提供一组作品，同时再用另外的媒介回应这组作品的议题。在思考与创作的过程中产生略微的变化。我们希望通过这种古怪且饶有趣味的形式，为观者提供将同议题的作品进行对比和与其相互对话的机会。

COSPACE and None Project will hold "Half Salt Half Salty" from March 11th to May 14th, 2023. Many works by Chen Xuanrong, Gao Shan, Huang Liyan, Liu Zhicheng, Meng Huang, Wu Wei, and Zhang Lanpo will be exhibited this time. Salt is an objective substance, and salty is a taste perception. This time we invite artists to provide a set of works, and at the same time use another medium to respond to the subjects of this set of works. Slight changes occur in the process of thinking and creation. We hope that through this quirky yet interesting approach, we can provide audiences with the opportunity to compare and dialogue with works on the same subject.

盐，是物质世界的客观存在物。日常摄入盐量过少，有变成白毛女的风险；过多则容易引起高血压之类的病症。因此，齁甜与齁咸皆不可取。而咸淡与否，既有盐摄入量的前提，也有人经过长期味觉训练、生存需求、物资获取等综合因素养出的后天感觉。盐与咸，互为前提。

许多艺术家的名气是从某一物质媒介中获得的，他们的创作赋予媒介新的意义，使媒介不再是原初的物理材料而成为艺术家自己在艺术中的“肉身”——又像盐与咸，互为前提。而世界上所有甜蜜，往往脱不掉单薄，肤浅，天生有一股子的虚假和油腻，您看，过分甜蜜的东西总逃不了“渣”的结局。

这七位参展艺术家，一直奋斗在当代艺术的前线，他们年龄不同、关注点各异，但都对生活保持应有的真诚，警惕和张力，精勇又含蓄，如同烧菜时减半的盐。这些艺术家不纵容艺术，展览更是如此。所以，我们就做了个小实验，由艺术家用第二种媒介、第三者的眼光来回应自己创作的关键词，品尝自己艺术的咸度。半盐与半咸，在艺术家身上互为前提。

咸淡究竟如何，留给您在艺术的层次间慢慢品尝。

——王晓松

Salt is an objective existence in the material world. If the daily salt intake is too little, there is a risk of hair turning white; if too much, it is easy to cause diseases such as high blood pressure. Therefore, neither too much nor too little salt is advisable. As for whether it is salty or not, there is not only the premise of salt intake but also the acquired feeling cultivated by long-term taste training, survival needs, material acquisition, and other comprehensive factors. Salt and saltiness are the premises of each other.

The fame of many artists is obtained from a certain material medium. Their creations endow the medium with new meaning, making the medium no longer the original physical material but the artist's own "flesh" in art—like salt and the taste of salt. And all the sweetness in the world can't get rid of its thinness, superficiality, inherent falseness, and greasy. You see, things that are too sweet usually can't escape the dreadful ending.

These seven participating artists have always been at the forefront of contemporary art. They are of different ages and focus, but they all maintain due sincerity, vigilance, and tension in life, brave and reserved, just like using half of the salt when cooking. These artists do not condone art, let alone the exhibition. Therefore, we conducted a small experiment, in which the artist used a second medium and a third person's perspective to respond to the keywords of his own creation and to taste the saltiness of his own art. Half-salt and half-salty are the premises of each other in the artist.

As how salty it is? Is left to you to taste slowly between the layers of art.

——Wang Xiaosong