策展人Curator | 陈晓阳 Chen Xiaoyang

参展艺术家 Artists | 葛玛丽Ge Mali /郭苑舒Guo Yuanshu/林钰玘Lin Yuqi/刘符洁Liu Fujie/任倢Ren Jie/小小灰Xiao Xiaohui/谢梓鈺Xie Ziyu/杨一心Yang Yixin/张珂Zhang Ke/张逸Zhang Yi

展期：2021.02.23 -2021.04.30

Duration：Feb. 23th - Apr. 30th, 2021

地点：深圳南山区白石路东8号欢乐海岸购物中心F3蓝楹坊11栋，盒子空间

Address : Boxes Art Space,Building 11 Lan Ying Fang,OCT-Harbor Shopping Centre,East 8 Baishi Road，Nanshan District，Shenzhen.

主办：OCAT欢乐海岸展区·盒子空间

Organizer：OCAT Shenzhen OCT Harbour Exhibition Site·Boxes

协办：华侨城盒子美术馆

Co-Organizer : OCTBoxes Art Museum

前言Preface

这是一个由“女艺术家”的作品构成的展览，但这并不意味着可以借助武断的性别定式就能找到阅读她们作品的捷径。距弗吉尼亚·伍尔芙1928年10月在剑桥大学谈起”女人想要写小说，她就必须有钱，还有一间属于自己的房间”已经过去快一百年了，女人不但可以写小说，也可以做几乎所有她们想做的事情,但是在很多领域，性别依然还在被作为一种最容易被使用的分类标准讨论。虽然作为一个独特个体，她们显然还拥有很多显而易见的特质，而“房间”像个既封闭又开放的物在今天独具意义，“十七个盒子”恰好像一个由房间构成的剧场，来呈现这个问题的讨论。

“房间与房间大不相同，

有的安静，有的喧嚣；

有的面朝大海，或正相反，正对大院内部；

有的挂满洗净的衣物，有的被猫眼石和丝缎装点得生机勃勃；

有的像马鬃般坚硬，有的如羽翼般轻柔。”

正如伍尔芙意识流般的叙述，在这个展览选择的作品中，也会看到这些艺术家们关于这个世界独辟蹊径的不同观察。这之中的视觉表达不乏敏锐深刻的观察，也不缺少哲理层面的思考，她们对物质世界的玄妙和精神空间的隐秘幽暗有着复杂而丰富的记录。在与作品凝视对话的过程中，“女”并没有办法成为一把钥匙，帮助解开作品中试图表达的隐语，尤其当这些微妙而深层的情绪被放置于时髦的商业空间中，更犹如被叠加答案的谜语，或迎面而来，或遭遇于透明的、令人诧异的转弯处。“伟大的灵魂都是雌雄同体的”，杰出的作品同样是，它们的魅力更多来自于艺术家对周遭世界和日常生活这个最大剧场中的深刻体味，既包括对个人身份的反思和诘问，也包括形而上的阐释和推演。这些故事有的彼此呼应，有的又泾渭分明，有的幽默奇诡，有的犹如棒喝，提醒着深陷消费社会中的我们，内心是否也有未放弃的纠结，并籍由一幕幕房间剧场不断循环上映。

陈晓阳

This is an exhibition of the works created by “female artists”, but it does not meanthat the audience can resort to a shortcut to read their works with the help ofarbitrary gender stereotypes. It has been almost a century since Virginia Woolftalked at Cambridge University in October 1928 about “a woman must have money,and a room of her own, if she is to write fiction”. Women can not only write fictions,they can also do almost everything they want, but in many areas, gender isstill being discussed as the most handy classification criterion. As a uniqueindividual, each woman has her own palpable features. Today it becomesparticularly significant to discuss such a contradiction in “rooms”— closed andopen space, a theater composed of “seventeen boxes(rooms)”.

“The rooms differ so completely;

they are calmor thunderous;

open on to the sea, or, on the contrary, give on to a yard;

are hung with washing; or alive with opals and silks;

are hard as horsehair or soft as feathers.”

Justlike Woolf’s stream of consciousness, the works selected by this exhibitionshowcase the participating artists’ personal observations on the world. Thesevisual expressions are embodiments of their sensitive insights andphilosophical thinking, and sophisticated records of the mystical materialworld and secret dark spiritual spaces. When gazing at and trying to talk withthese works, the effort to resolve the riddles within will fail if you rely onthe impotent key of “female”, especially when these subtle and deep feelingshave been placed in such a fashionable commercial space. They are more likeenigmas with superimposed answers, head-on, or coming to you at the transparentand surprising turnings.

“Great souls are allhermaphrodite”, so are the excellent works. They are charismatic because theyhave the artists’ incisive perceptions of the surrounding world and dailylife—the biggest theater in them, they include the reflection and questioningof personal identity, as well as the metaphysical interpretation and deduction.These stories are echoing each other, or entirely different from each other, orhumorous and bizarre, or like a sudden sharp alarm, warning us, who are deeplytrapped in the consumer society, to recall the unyielding tangles inside, andthey are playing on and on when the scenes of the rooms theater get revealed.

Chen Xiaoyang

部分作品欣赏

葛玛丽/Ge Mali | To Be，or Not to Be | 2017 | 炭、宣纸/Carbon, xuan paper | 400x280cm

郭苑舒/Guo Yuanshu | 一片白羽-颤栗/A WhiteFeather：Thrilling | 2017 | 竹子、羽毛、电机/Bamboo, feather, electromotor | 160x45x45cm

刘符洁/Liu Fujie | 冷酷仙境/闲散者的凝视/La Fin du Pays des Merveilles/Wanderer’s Gaze | 2019 | 综合材料/Mixed materials | 尺寸可变/Variable size

小小灰/XiaoXiaohui | 一道闪电一片荒A/B /Lighting，to Barrenness A/B | 2018 | 铝板油画/Oil on aluminum | 90×70cm

任倢/Ren Jie | Black Things  | 2020 | GIF动画/GIF animation | 40"；厨房/Kitchen | 2020-2021 | 棉布、拼布、金属挂钩/Cotton, patchwork, metal hook | 可变尺寸/Variable size

杨一心/ Yang Yixin | 再坚持一会，就快好了…/Hang in There , It willEnd Soon… | 2019 |综合材料/Mixed materials | 尺寸可变/Variablesize

谢梓钰/ Xie Ziyu | 上面有个大王洲，右边有个鸦叫尾/There's a King Island Above,  and a Yajiaowei to the Right.| 2020 | 木/Wood | 尺寸可变/Variable size

张珂/ Zhang Ke | 生命树/Life Tree | 2020 | 石膏/ Plaster | 尺寸可变/Variablesize

张珂/ Zhang Ke | 生命树/Life Tree | 2020 | 石膏/ Plaster | 尺寸可变/Variablesize

张逸/ Zhang Yi | 另一面墙/AnotherWall | 2020 | 木板、墙漆/Wooden board,paint | 尺寸可变/Variable size

关于策展人

​陈晓阳 | Chen Xiaoyang

视觉人类学博士，广州美术学院美术馆副馆长，雕塑与公共艺术学院副教授。

作为跨领域的研究者和艺术家，近年主要从事人类学研究和社会参与式艺术实践，以在地展览策划与研究性写作等跨学科方法持续展开关于华南文化的研究、传播与再造工作。近期的工作重点转向新博物馆学理念下的机构与策展实践，继续探讨参与式方法在美术馆、公众与社区之间的互相激发。