新展开放 | 房间剧场 Room Theatre

房间剧场

Room Theatre

策展人Curator | 陈晓阳 Chen Xiaoyang

参展艺术家 Artists | 葛玛丽Ge Mali /郭苑舒Guo Yuanshu/林钰玘Lin Yuqi/刘符洁Liu Fujie/任倢Ren Jie/小小灰Xiao Xiaohui/谢梓鈺Xie Ziyu/杨一心Yang Yixin/张珂Zhang Ke/张逸Zhang Yi 

展期：2021.02.23 -2021.04.30

Duration：Feb. 23th - Apr. 30th, 2021 

地点：深圳南山区白石路东8号欢乐海岸购物中心F3蓝楹坊11栋，盒子空间

Address : Boxes Art Space,Building 11 Lan Ying Fang,OCT-Harbor Shopping Centre,East 8 Baishi Road，Nanshan District，Shenzhen.

主办：OCAT欢乐海岸展区•盒子空间

Organizer：OCAT Shenzhen OCT Harbour Exhibition Site·Boxes

协办：华侨城盒子美术馆

Co-Organizer : OCTBoxes Art Museum

This is an exhibition of the works created by “female artists”, but it does not meanthat the audience can resort to a shortcut to read their works with the help ofarbitrary gender stereotypes. It has been almost a century since Virginia Woolftalked at Cambridge University in October 1928 about “a woman must have money,and a room of her own, if she is to write fiction”. Women can not only write fictions,they can also do almost everything they want, but in many areas, gender isstill being discussed as the most handy classification criterion. As a uniqueindividual, each woman has her own palpable features. Today it becomesparticularly significant to discuss such a contradiction in “rooms”— closed andopen space, a theater composed of “seventeen boxes(rooms)”.

“The rooms differ so completely;

 they are calmor thunderous;

open on to the sea, or, on the contrary, give on to a yard;

are hung with washing; or alive with opals and silks;

are hard as horsehair or soft as feathers.”

Justlike Woolf’s stream of consciousness, the works selected by this exhibitionshowcase the participating artists’ personal observations on the world. Thesevisual expressions are embodiments of their sensitive insights andphilosophical thinking, and sophisticated records of the mystical materialworld and secret dark spiritual spaces. When gazing at and trying to talk withthese works, the effort to resolve the riddles within will fail if you rely onthe impotent key of “female”, especially when these subtle and deep feelingshave been placed in such a fashionable commercial space. They are more likeenigmas with superimposed answers, head-on, or coming to you at the transparentand surprising turnings.

“Great souls are allhermaphrodite”, so are the excellent works. They are charismatic because theyhave the artists’ incisive perceptions of the surrounding world and dailylife—the biggest theater in them, they include the reflection and questioningof personal identity, as well as the metaphysical interpretation and deduction.These stories are echoing each other, or entirely different from each other, orhumorous and bizarre, or like a sudden sharp alarm, warning us, who are deeplytrapped in the consumer society, to recall the unyielding tangles inside, andthey are playing on and on when the scenes of the rooms theater get revealed.

Chen Xiaoyang

刘符洁/Liu Fujie | 冷酷仙境/闲散者的凝视/La Fin du Pays des Merveilles/Wanderer’s Gaze | 2019 | 综合材料/Mixed materials | 尺寸可变/Variable size

小小灰/XiaoXiaohui | 一道闪电一片荒A/B /Lighting，to Barrenness A/B | 2018 | 铝板油画/Oil on aluminum |90×70cm

任倢/Ren Jie | Black Things  | 2020 | GIF动画/GIF animation | 40"；厨房/Kitchen | 2020-2021 | 棉布、拼布、金属挂钩/Cotton, patchwork, metal hook | 可变尺寸/Variable size

谢梓钰/ Xie Ziyu | 上面有个大王洲，右边有个鸦叫尾/There's a King Island Above,  and a Yajiaowei to the Right.| 2020 | 木/Wood | 尺寸可变/Variable size

张珂/ Zhang Ke | 生命树/Life Tree | 2020 | 石膏/ Plaster | 尺寸可变/Variablesize

林钰玘/Lin Yuqi | 你想出这么个把戏，好让人把你忘记/You Came Up with this Trick to Make PeopleForget You | 2018 | 单路视频/Single-channel video | 时长无限/Infinity

张逸/ Zhang Yi | 另一面墙/AnotherWall | 2020 | 木板、墙漆/Wooden board,paint | 尺寸可变/Variable size

陈晓阳 | Chen Xiaoyang

视觉人类学博士，广州美术学院美术馆副馆长，雕塑与公共艺术学院副教授。

作为跨领域的研究者和艺术家，近年主要从事人类学研究和社会参与式艺术实践，以在地展览策划与研究性写作等跨学科方法持续展开关于华南文化的研究、传播与再造工作。近期的工作重点转向新博物馆学理念下的机构与策展实践，继续探讨参与式方法在美术馆、公众与社区之间的互相激发。