LONG预告 | 瑞秋·琼斯中国首次个展“断裂之根”即将呈现

2023年3月18日至5月28日，英国艺术家瑞秋·琼斯的大型个展“断裂之根”将在龙美术馆（西岸馆）西楼展厅呈现，展出一组约25件新作，这是艺术家在中国的首次个展。通过使用油画棒和粉彩等媒介，琼斯在未伸展的画布上构筑起一个万花筒般瞩目的世界，她以极具变化和冲突的方式将抽象的主题、颜色和质地并置在一起。

这组名为“断裂之根”的新作特别为龙美术馆西楼展厅创作，标志着琼斯持续使用嘴巴和牙齿的意象作为边缘场域的接触点创作的重大发展，即嘴巴作为一个边缘场域，既是身体的内部亦是外部。每件作品都着眼于一颗牙齿的孤立结构，强调其粗糙外观下的隐藏的可能性，并成为艺术家研究身份的文化、历史和心理的复杂性的物质焦点。

An exhibition of more than 25 new works by British artist Rachel Jones will open at the Long Museum, Shanghai on March 18th, 2023. Titled a shorn root, this major presentation is Jones’s first solo exhibition in China. Working primarily upon unstretched canvases in her chosen mediums of oil stick and pastel, Jones builds striking, kaleidoscopic worlds that juxtapose abstracted motifs, colours and textures in a manner that is, at once, dynamic and confrontational.

This new group of paintings, made specifically for the Long Museum’s new West Wing Gallery space, marks a significant development in Jones’s ongoing interest in mouths and teeth as sites of contact between distinct realms – the mouth functioning as a liminal space that is both interior and exterior to the body. Focusing on the isolated structure of a lone tooth, each work emphasises the metaphorical potential of the craggy form to become a material focus for the artist’s investigation into the cultural, historical and psychological complexities of identity.