闇 – 中国青年艺术家影像展
参展艺术家：盛洁（北京），吴逸中（台北／柏林），李明（杭州）
策展人：袁小潆
开幕: 2008年11月30日，星期天，下午三点
展览时间：2008年11月30日至12月21日
地点：小平画廊
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“惘”

70年以后出生的年轻艺术家是一个特殊的群体。

这个群体不再徘徊在前一辈对伤痕的痛楚，寻根的伤感，或85新潮的激情里。 商业，科技和信息为他们提供了开放的创作环境，新的创作语汇和无限的机遇，改变了他们对社会和人类的关注点。但与此同时，复杂的商品社会结构，日益畸形的价值观和冷漠的人际关系却使他们无所适从，不堪重压。焦燥，怀疑，矛盾，迷惘，挣扎，无奈，空虚，嘲讽，发泄...... 还有随之滋生的对自身的夸大，对未来的恐惧，以及在机遇和欲望中自我的重复丢失和找寻。
展览关注的正是这个年轻艺术家群体在当代社会中的生存状态，以及在这种状态下需要时刻对抗的负面情绪。
盛洁（gogoj，北京）的作品无论是录像，摄影，声音，装置还是行为，都充斥了一个游戏者对当代社会和艺术圈畸形发展的无奈，不屑和反抗。自幼学习西方古典音乐的经历使她对声音有独特的感觉。在盛洁的录像作品中，简单朴素的画面和浓重诡异的低频噪音并存，将人们引入存在于现实和虚幻之间的缝隙中。作品风格偏向迷幻超现实主义，怪诞而诡异。既有诙谐，自嘲和不管不顾的自我发泄，也有矛盾与和谐在缝隙中的并存。而与此同时，所有的画面又都或多或少地流露出创作者对青少年时期的简单和幸福感的缅怀。
吴逸中 (effie wu， 台北/柏林) 擅于将录像艺术延伸为自身表演的舞台，而整个表演中最触动人心的即是表演者的脸部。无论是07年的获奖录像作品“super smile”（超级微笑），还是这次展出的“wahn”（妄），脸部作为直接传达情感和与观看者交流的界面，隐藏着整部作品最细腻复杂的情绪波动。作品画面通常简单，表演者努力呈现的表情或近乎完美，或机械的重复，却同样能使屏幕前的观看者感到不适，焦躁或惶恐不安。对人体脸部表情的关注和对影像艺术的特殊理解与吴逸中早年在台北学习戏剧专业很有关系。而在空间，时间，物理运动和面部表情之间的和谐结合也使她的作品很容易就将观看者带入其中。尽管每部作品均以一种直接的可爱的方式出现在观看者面前，其传达给观看者最强烈的却是表演者面部所流露的紧张，焦虑和欲望。
李明（杭州）是参展艺术家中最年轻的一位，但其作品所呈现的细腻和敏感却远远超过他的年龄和阅历。李明的作品画面通常呈现超现实主义的美妙和浪漫，叙事结构带有诗的气质，然而最终却结束在对一切完美，温馨，平静事物的人为的粉碎。李明擅于通过极其平凡的生活细节和身体动作来阐述和触发复杂的情感波动。作品中的美丽画面也许来自幻想，是作品中和作品外人们的共同向往。而当一切散去，我们仍然需要每天面对的，却依然是孤独，脆弱，无奈，痛楚，还有恐惧......

袁小潆
2008年11月，于上海










ANXIETY – Young Chinese Artists’ Video Art Exhibition

Artists: SHENG Jie aka Gogoj (Beijing), Effie WU (Taipei/Berlin), LI Ming (Hangzhou)
Curator: Juliette YUAN
Opening: Nov 30th, 2008, Sunday, 3:00 p.m.
Exhibition dates: Nov 30th to Dec 21st, 2008
Venue: Shopping Gallery
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“bad feelings”

shanghai, nov. 2008


artists born after the 70s are a very special group of people.

they have moved past the pain from scar litereature movement, the melancholy of root seeking and the emotion for the 85 new wave. commerce, technology, and information provided them with an open environment, unlimited opportunities and new medium which altered their social and human concerns. but at the same time, they found a complex societal structure, increasingly warped values and emotionless relationships which are indecisive and unbearable. they exaggerate their own fears for the future, lost in opportunities and desires which are supplanted by impatience, doubt, contradiction, confusion, struggle, frustration, emptiness, ridicule and vent.

this exhibition focuses on the daily survival of this group of young artists in contemporary society as well as the emotional turmoil they confront.

sheng jie’s (gogoj, beijing) varied art works including video, photography, sound, and installation are full of helplessness, disdain and confrontation of contemporary society and the unbalanced development of art. Having studied western classical music since childhood she has developed a distinctive feel for sound. in this video work, simple pictures coexist with a dense strange low frequency noise, which brings people to a crevice that lies between reality and illusion. Her art work is psychedelic, surreal, strange, and at times humorous. It also presents the coexistence between contradiction and harmony. The images reveal the simple and happy adolescence that the artist cherishes.

wu yizhong (effie wu, taipei/berlin) excels at extending the theatrical stage into her video art performances.. her facial expression is the most spectacular part in the entire performance. the face as the platform of conveying feelings to the audience projects the most complex emotional movement of the art work, which was embodied in both her award winning video work super smile in 2007 and wahn currently on display. the video work is simple but audiences are left feeling uncomfortable, anxious even frightened by images which convey perfectionism sought by the performer but are at times repetitive. effie’s study of drama, in taipei, in her early years is reflected in the way she pays close attention to human facial expressions and her special understanding of video art. The excellent balance between space, time, physical movement and facial expression draws audiences into the work.. although her work is presented in a straightforward, funny way, it conveys very strong feelings of tension, anxiety and desire.

li ming (hangzhou) is the youngest participating artist. However, the sensitivity his work projects are far beyond his age or experience. His work often carries a touch of surrealist beauty and romance, and a poetic nature emits from his narration, although, in the end, it will all be artificially destroyed. His gift of focusing on life’s minute details to touch the depth of human emotion is vividly illustrated throughout his work. The technically beautiful images, springing from his imagination, are desired by all people, yet very few are willing to expose themselves to the depth and content which these images convey. when it all fades away, we still face loneliness, fragility, helplessness, pain and dread…


juliette yuan

放空炮！

又有什么搞效果的玩意啊?

顶啊