罚死他 Faster
——康靖个展

策展人: 刘礼宾
开幕式: 八月二十七日下午四点
展览时间: 2011/08/27 - 09/25
主办：哪里哪里艺术空间
网址： www.wherewhereproject.com
EMAIL: wherewherecc@gmail.com
联系电话： 135 2102 1603
对外开放时间： 星期四至星期天 12点-6点（或者通过预约）

当仲夏在怒放中显露出一些退意的时候，“哪里哪里艺术空间”和策展人刘礼宾合作推出一个名为《罚死他 Faster》的展览，这是一个集合艺术家康靖的影像，雕塑，装置为一体的个展。

正如刘礼宾在前言中写道的那样: “当康靖在四环路上拥挤的车流中狂奔的时候，我感受到了一份勇敢，以及与之相伴的苦涩。‘Faster’好像是这个时代的宿命，我们都被裹挟其中，从现实行为到生存心态，无一幸免。于是，‘慢’就成为了一份奢侈，我们也丧失了‘慢’的能力。只有在呼吸节奏的加快中，感觉自己活的很真实。”

这次展览有一个令人难忘的名字，关于题目他是这样解释的：“将‘Faster’音译为‘罚死他’，是为了凸显康靖看似勇敢，实则声嘶力竭，近乎歇斯底里的个人状态——在近乎‘恋物癖’的创作状态中，以‘雕’‘塑’技法‘以物造物’。”

过去的一个月里，也是在我们筹备这个展览的过程中，中国经历了温州动车事件，以及微博带来的“同时同地”的力量和局限。所以当策展人在前言里说道“‘快’是一种病，‘更快’是病的毒瘤”的时候，我们清楚的感到艺术和批评的前瞻性和后思性。


Kang Jing: 罚死他Faster

Where Where Art Space
Curated by: Liu Li Bin
Opening: Saturday, August 27, 4:00 pm
Exhibition: 2011/08/27- 09/25
Website: www.wherewhereproject.com
email: wherewherecc@gmail.com
Phone: 135 2102 1603

Where Where Art Space (WWAS) presents the first solo of Kang Jing that brings together his video, sculpture, and installation work. The exhibition has been guest curated Liu Li Bin.

In his preface to the exhibition Lui Li Bin writes:

Watching Kang Jing run through the dense traffic on the 4th Ring road in his recent video work, I feel his bravery, if not more the bitterness that accompanies it. To move faster is the fate of our time, we are a slave to it, from our everyday acts to our basic psychology. To take time, to slow down becomes a luxury as we lose the ability to control the speed of things. It is only by speeding up that we can feel alive and grounded.

In naming his exhibition I phonetically translated Faster into 罚死他, literally meaning “to punish him to death.” This highlights Kang Jing’s act, which looks courageous, but is also desperate and hysterical. It echoes his working method: an obsessive approach that replicates the object out of related materials. This camouflage is his weapon in carrying out close examinations. The verb sculpt in Chinese is made of Diao and Su, which respectively stand roughly for “rearticulate by going into detail,” and “building by adding and shaping.” For example he rearticulates a stiff branch into a new but delicate and graceful branch (in the work “Be Natural Please”); while in “Inch by Inch” clay is reshaped into a carpet.

Last month China experienced the tragedy of the high-speed train crash in Wen Zhou. “Faster” makes more evident the challenges faced in China for clear solutions and actions that foster social changes. Liu in commenting on Kang’s work notes that “the fight to be fastest is a disease, this obsession to be faster a growing cancer.” We can clearly realize how effectively art and criticism foresee and force us to reflect on the world we are in.

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