The Double Screen—Yu Ji's Solo Exhibition
Curator: Lu Mingjun
Opening: June 2nd, 2012, Saturday, 16:00 - 19:00
Exhibition dates: June 3rd to July 1st, 2012, 11:00 - 16:00
Venue: Art-Ba-Ba Mobile Space
Temporary address: Room 5215, 2/F, Bldg 5, 18 Wuwei Road, 200331 Shanghai
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E-mail: info.art.ba.ba@gmail.com
The materialization and extension of the space will be the theoretical premise of Yu Ji’s solo exhibition “The Double Screen” opening on June 2nd, 2012 in Art-Ba-Ba Mobile Space. Based on this topic, in a 20 m2 room, Yu Ji will duplicate a wall with a window, separating the space in two or executing a compression on one side, using reproduction methods to make a transitional space. Naturally, this materialization will create a spatial illusion, which will seem real at first, but which will reveal its virtuality when looking through the window; and when suddenly becoming aware that everything is fictitious, one will actually stand in the real space. When facing this concept of a space within a space, one could quote Wu Hung when he talks about “The Double Screen”. Even if Wu Hung’s “Double Screen” originally relates to a notion in visual logic of the history of knowledge, we can still understand it as a first contemporary extension.
Within a month, Yu Ji’s project will be separated in four parts where duplicated walls and space will be moved or destroyed, the illusion will accordingly diminish and disappear. However, Yu Ji’s work won’t merely be a division, modification and removal of layers, in fact, as the space will be materialized, the three parallel walls will compose a “double-screen”. Within these changes, particularly the spatial transition, that will compose “The Double Screen”, the transfer of the artist will be refined, and will question our cognitive experience in everyday life. This project will attempt to explore a certain possible escape in the elaboration and expansion of experience. In this sense, the three parallel walls and windows won’t be a common observation passage, on the contrary it will be a visual - even a perceptional - shelter, that become a new double screen between this double screen. (by Lu Mingjun)
Left: artist Yu Ji
A photo recording the evolution process