While inspecting the revelation-type interaction and combination between some kind of historical discrepancy and the existing implications of images, I want to ask, "Can such a kind of transference and borrowing of images lead to a more open space of meaning?" From this standpoint, we may be able to think what the images of art and the new reality are with the more legible clues.
© Mao Yu
Mao Yu apparently focuses on the internal vision of image generation, but not pays any attention to the sociological signifier or faces the field of realistic criticism. At the moment he set foot in Shunling Mausoleum (the mausoleum of the mother of Wu Zetian), his rubbing from the stone statues of the mausoleum in the Central Shaanxi Plain hinted the active demand in the interlacing of time and space. Cent...
m97 Gallery Shanghai is pleased to present "EXQUISITE CORPSE: China Surreal", a dynamic group exhibition of photographic works. Co-curated by Mathieu Borysevicz and m97 Gallery, this exhibition uses the Surrealists' game of Exquisite Corpse as a means to explore the collective subconscious of contemporary Chinese artists through the medium of photography. Twenty emerging and established artists present uncanny images arranged in a delicately composed sequence of non-sequiturs that reveal the surreality of today's China.
"Poetry must be made by all and not by one." - Comte de Lautréamont
The Exquisite Corpse game began in France in 1925 around a table of poets and artists. In this improvisational game a player would write a phrase on a sheet of paper, fold the paper to cover part of it, and ...