户尔北京?|「倦 e-nnui」CFGNY&陶辉｜即将开幕

2025.07.05-2025.08.16

“倦”（e-nnui）的英文展名源于“ennui”的变体拼写，有倦怠之意，凝缩了身体与心理疲乏的感受，而“倦”也带出“内卷”的语音意涵。在当下，倦怠不再只是个体的情绪表达，而是一种集体性感知。“e-”（电子化的）前缀暗示了我们目前所处的时代语境，一个数字化、网络审美、媒介欲望的劳动现实，也是CFGNY与陶辉的实践与近期新作的共同背景。

“倦”以“e-labour”（电子劳动）为出发点，讨论广泛存在于我们日常生活中的新型劳动与消费形式：图像的持续生成、流行审美的快速复制、注意力的稀释与调配……它们协同构成了线上状态的某种结构性疲劳。艺术家们从不同路径进入“电子倦怠”的语境，提供了一种截面式的观察，将“倦”作为素材和线索，展开一场缓慢的视觉勘探，最终在制造与审美之间发生微妙的互文关系。

CFGNY（Concept Foreign Garments New York）是成立于2016年的纽约艺术团体，创作始终围绕他们提出的“vaguely Asian”（模糊的亚洲性）这一概念展开，这一模糊性并非对身份的界定，而是回应种族、文化与视觉认知在全球语境中的泛化与误读。延续对“中间性”与视觉构造的关注，CFGNY从传统工艺出发，重新审视数字模拟与材料转译的张力，将材料与形象之间的逻辑拆解并重组，在媒介之间制造出一种不稳定的观看经验。他们强调异质文化中被挪用后的视觉残余，并将其视为网络图像时代的“数字手工劳动”之体现。

陶辉则延续一贯的视觉语言实践，直面流行媒介与视觉情绪的交织影响。他通过影像构建一种似曾相识的伪真实，熟悉的美学语言、重复的图像修辞与空洞的情绪指令共同构成他对“电子劳动”状态的持续观察，并关注个体在数字环境中的感知如何被不断调动与消耗，也反映了当代社会中难以脱身的参与结构与情绪负荷。

通过物质编排与空间布局，CFGNY和陶辉构建的可视性机制，使文化意义的生成、强化与争议具体化，在此过程中，民族性、异域性与知识权力的关系被不断重塑。

Hua International is honored to present e-nnui, an exhibition by New York-based art collective CFGNY and Chinese artist Tao Hui.

The exhibition title e-nnui is derived from a modified spelling of the word “ennui,” evoking a sense of weariness and emotional fatigue. The Chinese title “倦” (juàn, or “weariness”) conveys a similar feeling of exhaustion, while also alluding phonetically to the term “内卷” (nèijuǎn, or “involution”), referencing the social phenomenon of excessive internal competition. In our contemporary context, fatigue is no longer merely a personal sentiment, but a form of collective perception. The “e-” prefix suggests our current reality, one shaped by digitalization, network aesthetics, and the desires of mediated labor, which forms the shared backdrop for the practices and recent works of both CFGNY and Tao Hui.

Starting from the concept of “e-labour,” the exhibition examines the new modes of labor and consumption that permeate our daily lives: the continuous generation of images, the rapid replication of popular aesthetics, the dilution and redistribution of attention. Together, these dynamics contribute to a structural fatigue embedded in our online existence. Approaching the theme of “electronic exhaustion” from different trajectories, the artists offer a cross-sectional observation of this phenomenon. "e-nnui" becomes both material and clue, a slow visual excavation that reveals a subtle intertextuality between production and aesthetics.

CFGNY (Concept Foreign Garments New York) is an art collective founded in New York in 2016. Their work centers on the idea of “vaguely Asian,” a concept that does not define identity but rather responds to the ways race, culture, and visual perception are generalized and misread within global contexts. Continuing their focus on “in-betweenness” and visual construction, CFGNY starts from traditional craft practices to re-examine the tensions between digital simulation and material translation. By deconstructing and recomposing the logic between materials and images, they create an unstable viewing experience across media. The collective highlights the visual residues of cultural appropriation, framing them as forms of “digital handcraft” in the age of online imagery.

Tao Hui continues his established visual practice by directly confronting the intertwined effects of popular media and visual emotion. Through video, he constructs a pseudo-reality that feels eerily familiar, familiar aesthetic codes, repetitive visual rhetoric, and hollow emotional cues combine to form his sustained exploration of “e-labour.” Tao examines how individual perception is constantly mobilized and consumed within digital environments, reflecting on the inescapable structures of participation and emotional burden in contemporary society.

Through material choreography and spatial arrangement, CFGNY and Tao Hui construct visibility mechanisms that render the formation, reinforcement, and contestation of cultural meaning tangible. In this process, relationships among ethnicity, otherness, and epistemic power are continuously redefined.