ZHUYU SOLO EXHIBITION: FACE & FACELESS
ARTIST: 朱渔 | ZHU YU [1981 - 2077]
CURATOR: NOMAD NO MAD
HOST: CHEN HAIYAN
OPENING: 2024.03.08, Fri, 14:00 - 18:00
DURATION: 2024.03.08 - 04.08, Tue - Sun, 11:00 - 18:00
OIL ON LINEN: 7pcs, 65cm x 65cm
OIL ON LINEN: 4pcs, 60cm x 60cm
INSTALLATION: MIX-MEDIA, 1.6m x 2.3m
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These portraits have been precisely measured, sculpted, aligned with the formless, and formalised.
The exaggerated and even 'offensive' visual language deconstructs the sanctity of the 'portrait' and, to some extent, reflects ourselves. The embellishment and entanglement of ties and collars emphasise the gravitational relationship of mutual constraint and tug-of-war between 'power' and 'people.' Portraits achieve a specific stability under the control and guidance of a dog leash. The mature, professional, and authoritative image of the tie.
The 'role play' subjectively intervenes and guides the audience to question and reflect on the inherent impressions of gender traits and power dynamics. As a hallucinatory logical relationship between portraits and everyday objects, 'activating social dynamics' invites the audience to observe the gravitational relationships and power dynamics more deeply, reexamining the implicit power structures in interpersonal relationships, whether personal or societal.
'Power is a kind of human relationship.' - Niccolò Machiavelli.
“Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.” - Margaret Thatcher
'The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.' - Alice Walker."
Zhu Yu, born in 1981 in Liushi, a small town in Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province, China, graduated from the Animation Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2008. Currently, she predominantly resides and works between Wenzhou and Shanghai. Zhu Yu's primary artistic mediums include video, installations, and photography, with her current focus revolving around the concept of movable maps.
An artist guided by inspiration and intuition, Zhu Yu's creative process often unfolds in a perpetual state of "being in progress." Her work transcends temporal and spatial constraints, embodying the potential for new knowledge derived from "misinterpretation." Examining individual existence and societal relationships, Zhu Yu distances herself from esoteric ontological theories, drawing inspiration and intuition from her life experiences, social background, and observations in literature. This approach grants her ample redundancy in her artistic endeavors.
Through visual and corporeal means, Zhu Yu transforms her concerns about nature, society, and urban space into tangible artistic forms, realizing and concretizing her reflections. Her creative journey resembles navigating through a foggy forest, continually seeking and redefining markers. Viewing her upbringing and the territories she explores as meridians, she constantly shifts, departs, or erases her previous positions to find the parallels of her self-growth. In her own words, she expresses, "I always find myself needing to switch between different map modes to figure out where I am at this very moment."
Nomad No Mad is an artist-run space. NNM hopes to engage women artists from different cultures in their art projects, enabling viewers to see how women artists communicate with their surroundings, what issues they pose and how they deal with them through different narrative approaches.NNM respects and values independent thinking in creative proposals, and supports female artists. NNM also offers internship opportunities for women studying and practicing arts management.
The exaggerated and even 'offensive' visual language deconstructs the sanctity of the 'portrait' and, to some extent, reflects ourselves. The embellishment and entanglement of ties and collars emphasise the gravitational relationship of mutual constraint and tug-of-war between 'power' and 'people.' Portraits achieve a specific stability under the control and guidance of a dog leash. The mature, professional, and authoritative image of the tie.
The 'role play' subjectively intervenes and guides the audience to question and reflect on the inherent impressions of gender traits and power dynamics. As a hallucinatory logical relationship between portraits and everyday objects, 'activating social dynamics' invites the audience to observe the gravitational relationships and power dynamics more deeply, reexamining the implicit power structures in interpersonal relationships, whether personal or societal.
'Power is a kind of human relationship.' - Niccolò Machiavelli.
“Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.” - Margaret Thatcher
'The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.' - Alice Walker."
Zhu Yu, born in 1981 in Liushi, a small town in Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province, China, graduated from the Animation Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2008. Currently, she predominantly resides and works between Wenzhou and Shanghai. Zhu Yu's primary artistic mediums include video, installations, and photography, with her current focus revolving around the concept of movable maps.
An artist guided by inspiration and intuition, Zhu Yu's creative process often unfolds in a perpetual state of "being in progress." Her work transcends temporal and spatial constraints, embodying the potential for new knowledge derived from "misinterpretation." Examining individual existence and societal relationships, Zhu Yu distances herself from esoteric ontological theories, drawing inspiration and intuition from her life experiences, social background, and observations in literature. This approach grants her ample redundancy in her artistic endeavors.
Through visual and corporeal means, Zhu Yu transforms her concerns about nature, society, and urban space into tangible artistic forms, realizing and concretizing her reflections. Her creative journey resembles navigating through a foggy forest, continually seeking and redefining markers. Viewing her upbringing and the territories she explores as meridians, she constantly shifts, departs, or erases her previous positions to find the parallels of her self-growth. In her own words, she expresses, "I always find myself needing to switch between different map modes to figure out where I am at this very moment."
Nomad No Mad is an artist-run space. NNM hopes to engage women artists from different cultures in their art projects, enabling viewers to see how women artists communicate with their surroundings, what issues they pose and how they deal with them through different narrative approaches.NNM respects and values independent thinking in creative proposals, and supports female artists. NNM also offers internship opportunities for women studying and practicing arts management.
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