杨露子：双尽柏，记忆与意识 - 杨紫策展项目 @C5CMNM

双尽柏，记忆与意识

The Double-Ended Cypress: Memory and Consciousness

Curator：杨紫    Yang Zi

        Artist：杨露子 Luzi Yang

2022.05.01 — 05.23

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双尽柏，记忆与意识

The Double-Ended Cypress: Memory and Consciousness

终于有机会能够展示杨露子的“记忆项目”。这件事大概是这样开始的：2020年夏天的时候，我给周翊的画廊写了一篇展评文章，周老师说得给点“润笔费”。我说不用了。他便问，钱留着，要不要做个项目基金，在他的实验空间策个展。这是个好主意。半年后，我给杨露子打了个电话。

杨露子给了我一段文字，是现在“双尽柏”的文字部分初稿，她所谓的“主叙事”。我怕观众没有耐性一个字一个字地阅读，就想找别的艺术家做个呼应。一来二回，另外的“呼应”工作被杨露子自己构思了出来。我们对艺术有这样的共识：时间的消耗是必要的。这两天，杨露子把“主叙事”重新编辑，再发给我。时隔快一年，我很庆幸它最后被定义为单独艺术家的项目。这些文字像拓扑图里蜿蜒的曲线，书写是她从生命体验中沥取的沉重。为了说明沉重之物的沉重，她将这些线条投射到线条之外的领地。柏树是她记忆与意识的喻体，比喻是她没有终点的游戏。艺术载渡我们，能在出其不意的巷口柳暗花明，投入象征性的新世界。凭借文字，描摹语言内外两端所指向的实在与虚无，是一次令人振奋的行动。

世事无常。将这样一个项目交予我实现，我感谢她的信任。

杨紫

The Double-Ended Cypress: Memory and Consciousness

I finally had the opportunity to exhibit Luzi Yang’s "Memory Project.” The matter more or less started as the following: in the summer of 2020, I wrote a review for Zhou Yi's gallery exhibition, and Mr. Zhou said he had to pay me for my service. I said that would be unnecessary. He then proposed to use that money as a project fund for an exhibition in his experimental space. That was a great idea. After half a year, I called Luzi Yang.

Luzi gave me a text, the first draft of the current version of “The Double-Ended Cypress, Memory and Consciousness”, and she called it the “main narrative”. I was afraid that the audience would not have the patience to read each word, so I tried to find another artist to respond to the piece. After a while, Luzi conceived the idea of how to do the "responding" herself. We have the same understanding regarding art when it comes to this: the expenditure of time is indispensable. Luzi re-edited the "main narrative" and sent it to me in the past couple days. After almost a year, it finally became as it is now, a solo project, and I am glad about this. The words in these texts are like the winding curves in a topological graph, and the writing itself is the heaviness she absorbed from her life experience. To illustrate the heaviness of these things, she projects these lines into territories far and beyond. The cypress is a metaphor for her memory and consciousness, and she plays with metaphors like playing a boundless game. Art takes us to unexpected alleys, showing us exciting new ways that lead to a symbolic new world. It is an exhilarating act, using words to depict the solidity and emptiness that the inner and outer ends of language point toward.

I am grateful that she has entrusted me with this project’s implementation.

Yang Zi

杨紫是来自北京的独立策展人和研究学人。他于2012至2014年担任《艺术界LEAP》杂志编辑，于2015年加入尤伦斯当代艺术中心（UCCA）任总编辑，并策划多场展览及公共项目。他于2018年任职UCCA策展人及公共项目总监，策展项目包括：“肉身：恐怖谷”、“密室”、“Pity Party”、“敢当：当代神石注疏”、“韶华”、“装饰”等群展，亦为多个艺术家策划个展。杨紫于2017年入围Hyundai Blue Prize年度艺术大奖，于2019年、2021年担任华宇青年奖评委，并在2020年获选为首届希克中国艺术研究资助计划研究学人。

Yang Zi is a Beijing-based researcher and independent curator. From 2012 to 2014, he was an editor of LEAP. In 2015, after joining the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA), he acted as executive editor on a series of catalogues and curated exhibitions and public programmes; he became a curator and the head of public programmes in 2018. His curatorial projects include La Chair, Secret Chamber, Pity Party, Land of the Lustrous, In Younger Days, Zhuangshi, and numerous solo exhibitions. He was a finalist for the Hyundai Blue Prize in 2017, a judges of the Huayu Youth Award in 2019, and the recipient of the inaugural Sigg Fellowship for Chinese Art Research in 2020.

杨露子，出生于杭州。2011年她在哈佛大学获比较文学学士学位，同年获DAAD德意志学术研究奖学金；2016年于美国加州艺术学院（CalArts)获“电影与影像”艺术硕士学位。2016年12月她参展“抵抗的涌现”（泰康空间，北京），2017年入围第五届“华宇⻘年奖”，2018年于UCCA尤伦斯当代艺术中心举办个人展览 “新倾向：杨露子”。2020年参展“忍不住转身” （中间美术馆，北京）。

Luzi Yang

Luzi Yang was born in Hangzhou, China. They received their B.A. in Comparative Literature from Harvard University in 2011. Same year, they were awarded a graduate scholarship by DAAD. They received their MFA in Film/Video from California Institute of the Arts in 2016.  They participated in the group exhibition “Toward the Emergence of Resistance”(Taikang Space, Beijing, 2016). They held their solo exhibition “New Directions: Luzi Yang”at UCCA Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing, 2018). They participated in the group exhibition “An Impulse to Turn”(Inside-Out Mueseum, Beijing, 2020).