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清影 | 高雨初：奇形人间｜Gao Yuchu: Warped World 将于11月4日开幕

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海报设计：方一爽

高雨初：奇形人间

Gao Yuchu: Warped World

策展人：刘呗宁

Curator: Liu Beining

开幕时间 Opening: 2023.11.04, 3pm

展览时间 Duration: 2023.11.04-12.20

地址 Location: 杭州留和路139号12栋

Liuhe Road No.139, Building 12, Hangzhou

清影艺术空间荣幸地宣布，我们将于2023年11月4日下午3点呈现艺术家高雨初的个展“奇形人间”(Warped World)，展出高雨初近期的一系列作品，这也是高雨初在国内的首次个展。

在高雨初的作品中，面容与形象纷至沓来，变动不居。在她的炭笔绘画中，人物形象以一种扭动变幻的方式被描绘。她关注女性与变化的主题，其中既有身体与心理的变化，也有社会与文化层面上的转变与塑造。画面之上炭粉铺陈，或轻或重的轮廓线条互相叠加，这是她作画手感，也让多重的时间中女性形象为当下生活提供了更充盈丰富的解决之道。

也许你会在她的创作中识别出人类历史中出现过的诸多女性身体与形象，也能感受到的种种描绘方式之间的融合与流变。肖像背后承载的是身体变动的可能，所以，艺术史图像背后的时间观念就不再是一个带着严格的先后排序的线性序列，而是被重组为一个富有感性与魔力的感知手段，这个情念造型的流动性本身才是在描绘中被接近和被体验的对象。

高雨初 Gao Yuchu

Cat Girl 猫女，2022

布面丙烯 Acrylic on canvas

50×40 cm

这种对时间、历史以及想象力的翻搅也出现在高雨初关于“当代人”的肖像系列当中。画面中这些人物或专注或迷离，画面上不确定的叙事感来自艺术家对当下生活的困惑和不解。

她在画室中重新唤起人物在她脑海中留下的印象，这些印象来自日常周遭的人、事、物，或者新闻照片的一鳞半爪，她在对这些人物的观察中感受到某些具有代表性的“当代”精神气质。这里的“当代”并非只是关于“现在”，而是一种汇聚和共在的时间状态。当代并不意味着一种与以往的割裂，而是如实地照⻅到来自不同时代的因缘在此刻的某一个体上的综合呈现。

高雨初在清影艺术空间的驻地创作，她将完整的纸张撕裂为不同尺寸，再重新缝合在一起，形成了一个类似雕塑或者建筑式的画布空间，本来只在二维空间中的笔迹被略微抬升至了一个“准三维”的界面上。画面中的形象很多来自地中海沿岸以及中亚、南亚的古代文明的造型艺术，高雨初在不同文化的差异性里寻找某种共性，这让她所描绘的形象呈现出融合的状态。对她来说，那是人类的生活痕迹和生命体验，展现着直观的力量。

就此，高雨初引用了尤瓦尔·赫拉利对研究历史的观点:“不是为了预测未来，而是要摆脱过去，想象另一种命运。” 在对“另一种命运”的想象中，奇异或普遍的准则其实也是变动不居的，“奇形人间”可以是一个缝隙，一种局部真理，能通过它瞥⻅另一个世界的另一些可能，甚至去开始设想一种难以想象的未知。

展览将持续到12月20日。

高雨初 Gao Yuchu

Look at you! ，2023

纸本炭笔 Charcoal on paper

42×59.4 cm

Inna Art Space is honoured to announce that we will present "Warped World", a solo exhibition by Yuchu Gao on 4th November 2023 at 3pm, which is also the first solo exhibition of her in China,showcasing her most recent works.

In her work, faces and figures are in a constant state of flux. Her charcoal drawing characters are depicted in a distorted and transformative form. She addresses the theme of femininity and transformation, both physically and psychologically, as well as socially and culturally. Her paperwork is rich with charcoal powder, where light and heavy lines intermingle, highlighting her unique artistic touch. Through the medium, she presents a multi-dimensional portrayal of the female figure across various timelines, which offer a full and rich response to the present.

Viewers might recognise various female forms from different periods in human history within herwork, as well as the fusion and flux between the depictions. The portraiture carries the potential for body transformation. Thus, time in historical artistry isn't strictly linear; it's re-envisioned as a captivating mode of perception. Here, the fluidity of these emotional forms becomes the central subject of experience.

This blend of time, history, and imagination is also evident in Gao's drawing series "Contemporary Portraits." The subjects in these works sway between clarity and ambiguity, their enigmatic narratives born from the artist's introspection and thoughts about modern life.

高雨初 Gao Yuchu

Girl with a long long dog 女孩和很长很长的狗，2023

布面丙烯 Acrylic on canvas

120×100 cm

In her studio, Gao recalls the impressions of figures from everyday interactions, objects, or fragments from news and press photos. Through her observations, she discerns distinct "contemporary" temperaments. Here, "contemporary" surpasses the present moment, signifying amelding of different times. It doesn't imply detachment from the past but instead mirrors a blend of influences from varied epochs.

During her residency at Inna Art Space, she transformed sheets of paper by tearing them into diverse sizes and then sticking them together, crafting a surface evoking thoughts of sculpture or architecture. What began as two-dimensional strokes ascended to a near three-dimensional realm. Many figures in these works derive from ancient art forms of civilisations along the Mediterranean coast as well as Central and South Asia. Gao seeks unity among these cultural diversities, creating a harmonious blend in her depictions. To her, these images symbolise the imprints of human life and experiences, exuding palpable energy.

Echoing this sentiment, Yuchu Gao references Yuval Noah Harari's perspective on studying history: "not in order to predict the future, but to free yourself of the past and imagine alternative destinies." In this vision of an "alternative destiny," the criteria for what's considered unusual or standard are constantly shifting. "Warped World" can be seen as a crack, a partial truth, through which one can catch a glimpse of some other possibility in another world, and even go so far as to begin to conceive of an unimaginable unknown.

The exhibition will run until December 20th.

关于艺术家

高雨初，1993年生于河北唐山，2016年本科毕业于伦敦艺术大学温布尔登艺术学院绘画系，2018年入学慕尼黑美术学院雕塑系（妮可·沃尔莫斯教授），将于2024年初毕业。她以绘画为主要创作形式，并由此出发，探索绘画被不同空间与材质所触发的种种可能。古代造像和当代人肖像是她目前的工作重心。

Yuchu Gao, born in 1993 in Tangshan, Hebei, China, graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in Painting from Wimbledon College of Arts, University of the Arts London in 2016, and enrolled in the sculpture class at the Academy of Fine Art Munich (Prof. Nicole Wermers) in 2018, where she will graduate in early 2024. She works primarily with paintings and drawings, that are inspired by different materials and places. The thematic focus of her current work is informed by ancient statues and contemporary portraits.

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清影艺术空间于2008年由徐益英女士在杭州创立，并于2019年在纽约下东区开设了新空间。十多年来，基于杭州在中国当代艺术版图中的重要意义，清影从地缘格局出发，广泛且深入地推介了诸多极具才华和潜力的艺术家。与此同时，清影将全球视野作为机构文化中的价值标准，极力构建国内与国际艺术家的互动平台。通过持续地策展、研究、出版与市场推广，清影逐渐完善了具有自身特质的运营机制，矢志于未来向广域的艺术世界展现更强的能量与活力。

Inna Art Space was founded in 2008 by Yiying (Inna) Xu in Hangzhou, China, and established their Lower East Side premises in New York in 2019. After over a decade, with a basis in the formational influence of Hangzhou in the Chinese contemporary arts, the space has consistently worked to promote the talents of innumerable upcoming practitioners. The space has ceaselessly assumed a global perspective, doing all within their means to erect a platform for interaction between both Chinese and international practitioners. By way of their interactions with the public through their ongoing curatorial projects, research, and publishing, the space has gradually refined its own means of operation, setting their sights on manifesting greater strength and vitality towards a broader creative spectrum for the future.