这是个展｜松本蕗 Fuki Matsumoto：浅水波动 Cnoidal Wave

松本蕗：浅水波动

Fuki Matsumoto: Cnoidal Wave

开幕 Opening: 2024.8.10（六） 19:00

展期 Duration: 2024.8.10 - 9.10

地点 Location: 啥空间，杭州市河坊街465号 Schein Space, 465 Hefang Street, Shangcheng, Hangzhou

A cnoidal wave is characterised by sharper crests and flatter troughs than in a sine wave. For the shown case, the elliptic parameter is m = 0.9.  This title is chosen for its compliments on the theme of order against disorder. ocean waves are not measured to perfection, however, there is an exact formula given to its name. 

Extending from the previous show, Dream of Light, I continued to dive into the common objet d’art. But instead of focusing on one artefact, I decided to analyse the use of “grids” in common culture. Most of what surrounds us are rectangular objects, Speaking in terms of aesthetics, a study from a century ago by art critic Clive Bell indicated that the majority of viewers find softer, rounder forms to be much more pleasing to the eye. So how come we surround ourselves with so many grids? Squares, highly functional shapes, are often affiliated with orderliness and computation. It is easy to associate mathematics, architecture, and mechanical devices with such forms, and to detach sentimentality from such. With this project, I wish to create disorder within grids, to see the sequence and to break it. Do we find comfort within orderly sequences, or do they bind us? 

Using grids to mark up the canvases and printing a saturated image of grid waves on bead curtains, I am taking advantage of the location of the exhibition space which is close to a huge body of water. The bead curtains reflect light and move with the wind. Creating an illusion of free-flowing grid waves hanging off the ceiling. Cnoidal waves are disorder within a seemingly orderly structure. Within its calculated grids, the waves flow in no particular computation. Cnoidal waves are themselves, a small paradox. 

The two paintings feature images of water, fishing nets, and fish. Both paintings take inspiration from the presence of grids. In Sea (and plastic fishing net), Swallow Me, imagery of fishing nets is present as they are made of small grids, however, are inevitably crumbled up during their usage. There are also brightly coloured polka dots on the canvas, highlighting the grid mapping process taking place in the production of the painting itself. 

As for Content-aware Fish Can, the painted fish images are squished into squares on the canvas. These were images of fish processed with content-aware scaling. The fish are processed into fitting into smaller boxes, as they are when they are being made into canned fish. Thus forcing a free-growing organism to fit into mass-produced, precisely measured boxes. 

关于艺术家

松本蕗Fuki Matsumoto（1999）就读于 St?delschule，她从司空见惯的琐事中汲取灵感，通过重新语境化的方式对其进行探究，创作出既个人化又具有共性的作品。现居于美因河畔法兰克福。

Fuki Matsumoto (b.1999) studies at the St?delschule, she focuses on prose storytelling through analogue art making. She draws inspiration from commonplace mundanities, probing into them through recontextualisation; composing scopes of a personal yet shared glance at the con- stant. Matsumoto is currently based in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.