The inner flow gallery will launch the group exhibition "Giant Moving, Body Weightless" on May 4, 2024. This exhibition will take the architectural structure of the gallery as a whole and present the works of nine artists including Bao Rong, Hu Jiayi, Jin Jiachen, Li Zetao, Wang Jing, Xie Kun, Zhou Hao, Zhang Jie and Zhao Yu. The exhibition simulates the illusion of thinking in the face of an unshakable huge system, and the extreme physiological reaction brought by the physical body against the laws of nature. It is hoped that through the creation and thinking of the nine artists, we can trigger our initial feelings at the instinctive level. This exhibition is planned by Chen Yufeng and will open on the May 4th Youth Day.
This huge silent object has many faces and potential forms. It will show one side at a given moment and the hidden side at another moment. Nobody can see the full picture of this mysterious creature from a completely open perspective. It just stands still, but makes people feel the pressure of approaching at a constant speed. It is wonderful, attractive and dangerous, like the collapse of a swamp.
The plane was traveling in a shimmering tunnel, and the darkness for a long time made his sight and consciousness blurred. The ineffective resistance only made him choose to give up control, and the spiritual subject needed to deal with those strange emotions like a trapped animal. A momentary bump made him feel his body again, such as waking up from a dream. He realized that the naked soul was separated from the transferred body, and returned from harmony to chaos.
The story begins
The abrupt visual spectacle referred to by "giant" often appears as a supernatural creation in science fiction movies, reflecting a kind of sublime beauty with a sense of terror. The current technology acceleration, overproduction, and hormone overflow have also led to the birth of many allegorical new giants. We are immersed in these weird filled realities, and the inherent animality of human beings begins to curl up. In a trance state with highly concentrated attention, the spirit is pulled out in a "weightless" way, and the repressed internal emotion tries to break away from the physical body to seek the transcendental dimension, and faces fear and bleakness with crazy passion.
The attitude towards "new alienation" and "naked life" determines the appearance of the current society, and the artists who shuttle in this complex structure have also become an important indicator to measure and criticize social thought. Although individual artists cannot overlook the panorama from the perspective of omniscient, what is valuable is that they can use experience and intuition to break through the original narrative, analyze and judge.
The exhibition will last until June 9, 2024.
Huge object movement, body weightlessness
Curator: Chen Yufeng
Artists: Bao Rong, Hu Jiayi, Jin Jiachen, Li Zetao, Wang Jing, Xie Kun, Zhou Hao, Zhang Jie, Zhao Yu
Exhibition period: 2024.5.4 - 6.9
Opening: 5.4 Saturday 16:00
Address: 798 East Street, 798 Art District, No. 2 Jiuxianqiao Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, inner flow Gallery
Exhibition site
About Artists
Baorong
Born in 1997, now working and living in Beijing and London. In 2023, he graduated from the Sculpture Major of the Royal College of Art in Britain. His undergraduate degree was studied in the Sculpture and Public Space Art Department of the China Academy of Fine Arts and won a freshman admission scholarship. In 2021, he graduated from the Chicago Academy of Arts in the United States and won a bachelor's degree in pure art and an outstanding scholarship. In 2022, Bao Rong was selected as one of the top ten cutting-edge artists by the Ullens Art Center of China, and was shortlisted in New Contemporaries of the United Kingdom in the same year. In 2023, he won the Graduation Award jointly awarded by The COLAB/Royal College of Arts/Yorkshire Sculpture Park, and also won the Cultural Connectivity Fund from the British Council in the same year. In 2024, Bao Rong won the Gilbert Bayes Award from the Royal Society of Sculptors, and became a member of the Royal Society of Sculptors. In 2024, her solo exhibition "RONG BAO IS ME BAO RONG IS ME IS ME" in the British Sage Art Museum was the first time in the history of this famous international art museum to hold a solo exhibition for Chinese female artists. In the same year, he was commissioned by Tate Collective of Tate Art Museum. The art project Design for Non Human Kinds: Toys for Elephant participated by Bao Rong was interviewed and reported by NBC News in 2019. From 2022 to 2024, he was invited to become a guest art tutor of many famous universities, such as Sotheby's College of Art, the University of Utah, the University of Westminster, the University of South Thames, and the University of Creative Arts in Britain, and served as co chairman of the British Walkative Society Project from 2022 to 2023.
Some recent group exhibitions include Buffer 2, Guts Gallery， London, 2023; A New Day， A New Dawn， The Bomb Factory Art Foundation， London, 2023; Middlesbrough Art Week， Middlesbrough, 2023; Enigma Garden， The Artist’s Garden， London, 2023; Situation Jiaxin, Tang Art Museum, Guangdong, 2023; Beijing Huangsongyu Earth Art Festival, Beijing, 2023; Originality in the Sky... Up/Down, Spurs Gallery, Beijing, 2023; London, 2023; Hung，Drawn &Quartered， Standpoint Gallery， London, 2023; EXPO CHICAGO， Chicago, 2022
Hu Jiayi
Born in Turpan, Xinjiang in 1993. The materials or actions used in her works are very natural, sincere and intuitive. She enters into different fields of daily society through behavior, image, photography, installation, painting and other media. As an individual, Hu Jiayi is often described by words such as inarticulate and cruel. As a woman, she has never been labeled as weak, which is directly related to the strength of her works.
Hu Jiayi's works have been exhibited in the United States, Europe, Asia and other places. Her recent exhibitions include: Tribulus terrestris, Hu Jiayi solo exhibition, Macao cattle warehouse, Macao, 2023; Living in the New Century: Chinese media art since 1989, Ulsan Art Museum, Ulsan, South Korea, 2022; Better Life, Shanghai Bund Art Museum, Shanghai, China, 2022; Weiminghe, Three Shadows Art Center, Beijing, China, 2022; Water - Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China, 2021; Open warehouse for body media cowshed, Macao, 2021; Intimacy, Venice Liovanti Film Festival, Italy, 2020; Acted in True Color, Yilai Gallery, America, 2019. Hu Jiayi won two Luo Zhongli Scholarships in 2015 and 2018; The 7th New Star Art Festival New Star Award, New Star 10th Anniversary Youth Art Award; SAYA Elite International Young Artists Program 2016 Chengdu Contemporary Art Museum Special Award; 2018 John Moore Painting Award finalists; In 2021, Huayu Youth Award was shortlisted. In 2015, Hu Jiayi was invited to participate in the resident project sponsored by the Shanghai Himalayan Art Museum and the Gwangju Municipal Art Museum in South Korea, and created in South Korea; In 2017, he participated in the residence project sponsored by 501 Preface Space and Manchester Chinese Art Center in the UK, and held an exhibition in the UK. In 2023, he was invited to participate in the residence project of Macao cattle house warehouse.
Jin Jiachen
Born in 1993 in Gansu. In 2022, he graduated from Aichi Prefecture Art University in Japan with a master's degree in oil painting and printmaking, and in 2015, he graduated from Tianjin Normal University with a bachelor's degree in oil painting. Currently, he works and lives in Japan. Its creation media are mainly propylene, toner and cotton cloth. Through the fusion and penetration of pigments, water and cotton cloth, it captures the images generated when the soul and material contact.
Individual exhibitions include: An elephant in my heart, Mikin Gallery × BACKSTAGE ART, Shanghai;
ママ, には, さな, がいる, Gallery, Tokyo; Walking, Hidari Zingaro， Tokyo; The salt of the eye, the sea of the ear, Prime Studio、 Nagoya. Selected and awarded: F Award of Guchuan Art Museum, 2022; Gallery Beauty House, selection exhibition, runner up, 2022; The seventh round of Xingnai Family Awards 2022; GEISAI 22 Examiner Madsaki Reward, Holbein Reward, 2023
Li Zetao
Born in Changsha, Hunan in 1997, graduated from the Oil Painting Department of Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts in 2019 with a bachelor's degree, and graduated from the Oil Painting Department of Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts in 2022 with a master's degree. Now, he works and lives in Chongqing. His recent research mainly starts with a symptom of "exhaustion", and tries to clarify the reason behind this symptom by dealing with relevant scenes and things: is it a punishment mechanism or a reward mechanism? Is it systematic discipline or performance appraisal? This society creates a state of exhaustion. Will it continue to circulate? Can it stop in a certain state?
Recent exhibitions include: Folding · Covering, Hongkun Art Museum&Painting Bad Guy Shop, Beijing, 2022; What i'm thinking is, OUTSIDER GALLERY， Zhengzhou, 2023; Dynamic refresh: Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts Young Artists Residence Plan, Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Chongqing; Collection II, ARR GALLERY Hangzhou, 2024
Wang Jing
Born in Shanxi in 1996. In 2018, he graduated from Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts with a bachelor's degree, and in 2022, he graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts with a master's degree. Now he works and lives in Chongqing. Works are usually based on nature, and at the same time open the second awareness of life and poetry. Intercept hazy feelings and fragmentary instantaneous memory, and connect with emotion, not only in schema and color. The subtle lines and color blocks that are separated from the image sharply form an abstract form that is difficult to define. Try to touch the depths of irrationality with your own private perspective, and extend the complex thoughts in the extreme daily state.
Recent exhibitions include: field notes, New Oxygen Art O2ART, Beijing, China, 2024; Not purely rational criticism, Simulacra, Beijing, 2023; A bouquet dedicated to Alginon, ARCH GALLERY ARCH GALLERY GALLERY, Changsha, 2023; Dynamic Refresh - Report Exhibition of Young Artists of Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts, Art Museum of Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts, Chongqing, 2023; Luo Zhongli Scholarship, Mango Art Museum, Changsha; Youth Art 100, Jiade Art Center, Beijing, 2022; The 5th China Youth Printmaking Exhibition, China Printmaking Museum, Shenzhen, 2019
Xie Kun
Born in Hebei in 1989, graduated from the High School Attached to the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2007, graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts with a bachelor's degree in 2011, and graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts with a master's degree in 2016. Now, he works and lives in Beijing. Her works are good at using different media to reflect and solidify the impression of shaping people's personal identity. Part of the strength of the work comes from the incongruity between size and color, and part of it comes from the sense of absurdity and temptation brought by the deconstruction and reorganization of daily mediocrity. Xie Kun's works wander between the grasping reality and another world of fantasy and symbol. It presents a symbol of self extinction. His works are exhibited in the Venice Armory, the Russian National Culture Palace, the Chinese Art Museum, the Imperial Ancestral Temple, the Delaware Museum of Contemporary Art and other art institutions. His works have been collected by White Rabbit Art Museum, Hubei Art Museum, Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum and other institutions and individuals.
The solo exhibition includes: everything you said is right, 30 Space, Beijing, 2022; Nietzsche's Superman, Yue Art Museum, Beijing, 2022; Non-existence，Take Ninagawa， Tokyo, 2018; Let's talk, platform China droom, Beijing, 2017; Important group exhibitions include: Yongdaytime, Meicheng Space, Shenzhen, 2024; Capture, Platform China, Beijing, 2023; Enchantment of Language, Huaixuan, Beijing, 2023; Lord World 2, Yesong Gallery, Shenzhen, 2022; My Fugue and I, Art Warehouse Contemporary Art Center, Chongqing, 2022; Not necessarily, Fantasy Art Center, Beijing, 2021; Kairenqi, Aimu Art Museum, Beijing, 2021; Youth art scene, HARVEY GALLERIES， Sydney, 2019; Gap, Delaware Museum of Contemporary Art, Delaware, 2019; Laguna International Art Award, Armory, Venice, Italy, 2019; He Lunxi, Hubei Art Museum, Wuhan, 2017; Out of the Peony Pavilion, the Russian National Culture Palace, St. Petersburg, Russia, 2016; In 2017, he won the Venice Laguna International Art Award. In 2014, he was awarded E LAND Award. In 2018, he won the Most Popular Artist Award in Taopu Bay.
Zhou Hao
Born in Xi'an, Shaanxi in 1995, graduated from Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts in 2018. Most of Zhou Hao's creative inspiration comes from life. His works contain humor, humor and self mockery to express the artist's understanding of the world and present his thoughts on social, political, cultural and human issues. Painting is a media, which links Zhou Hao's relationship with the world and the audience. He is good at directly attacking the essence of the problem by depicting simple and direct pictures. Even some ugly and dirty phenomena show their interesting satirical perspectives in the artist's paintings, thus arousing the attention of the audience to the real problems.
Recent exhibitions include: Doll House, hiart space， Beijing, 2024; 12 paintings in oil tank, Oil Tank Art Park, Shanghai, 2022
Zhang Jie
He was born in Kashi, Xinjiang in 1993, and obtained a master's degree and a bachelor's degree from the Oil Painting Department of Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts in 2021 and 2016 respectively. Now he lives and works in Chongqing. Zhang Jie's works mainly focus on figurative painting. Through refining fragments of daily life, she constantly explores the relationship between figurative painting and emotional expression. Her works are full of strong or weak emotional changes, which are solidified and preserved by the traces of painting. The true and effective expression of emotion is usually the purpose of her painting.
Recent exhibitions include: Terminal, Radius Gallery, Xi'an, 2023; My blink is as light as a feather. I started the gallery, Guiyang, 2023; Yellow Box Open Exhibition, Yellow Box Art Museum, Qingdao, 2021; Art Festival 100 meters above the ground, Beijing, 2021; Zou Cao, Department of Oil Painting, Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts, Chongqing, 2019; Annual Exhibition of Oil Painting Department of Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts, CAEA Art Museum, Chongqing, 2020; Reef, Chinese Contemporary Art Museum, Chongqing, 2018; Coming out of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Central, Hong Kong, 2016; In 2021, his graduation work "Body Series" won the Porsche Research Award of Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts, and in 2015, he was nominated by the Literature Library of the 22nd Annual Exhibition of Student Works of the Oil Painting Department of Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts.
Zhao Yu
Born in 1993 in Yunnan, now working and living in Chongqing. He obtained a master's degree and a bachelor's degree from the Oil Painting Department of Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts in 2020 and 2017 respectively. Zhao Yu's works rely on images and their internal semantics. On the one hand, these images are out of the original context, and there is a sense of dislocation and fracture between images, so a decentralized and non-linear narrative begins to appear. On the other hand, the shape of the image has become an important factor in the visual structure of the screen, because the use of juxtaposition and deconstruction techniques makes it break the single visual and spatial relationship. Zhao Yu has been selected into several painting awards and artist residency projects, including the "Memory Delta" young artist residency project in Amsterdam, the Netherlands in 2018, the residency project of Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts in 2020, and the residency project of Huatai young artists in 2023.
Recent exhibitions include: Literature Exhibition for the 30th Anniversary of the Annual Exhibition of Oil Painting Department of Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts, Art Museum of Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts, Chongqing, 2023; Hundreds of Rivers Return to the Sea - Opening Exhibition of Hainan Dan Family Museum, Dan Family Museum, Hainan, 2023; China Performance, Thai Art Center, Shanghai, 2023; Ask questions to the wall, Song Art Center, Beijing, 2023; The universe shines for you, Thai Art Center, Shanghai, 2023; House in the daytime, Xieli Space, Beijing, 2023; Under the scorching sun, Fir Gallery， Beijing, 2022; Winter Insomnia, Soka Art Center, Beijing, 2022; Monemosyne, Youths from Yulu, Ten o'clock Sleep Art Center, Beijing, 2022; Eye of Art Museum, Chengdu Art Museum, Chengdu, 2022; Luo Zhongli Scholarship Award Works Exhibition, Art Museum of Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts, Chongqing, 2021; Shining World, Time Art Museum, Chongqing, 2021; Busan Youth Art Festival, Busan, South Korea, 2020; Reset, CAEA Art Museum, Chongqing, 2020; BE-CAUSE OF PAINTING, The First Zhijiang International Youth Art Week, Xiangshan Art Community, Hangzhou, 2019; Special texture, CAEA Art Museum, Chongqing, 2019; The Delta of Memory， Memory Delta, SVB Art Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2019; From Hangzhou Dongfang, Inter Youth International Youth Painting Tour, Luo Zhongli Art Museum, Chongqing, 2019; The First Chongqing Oil Painting Biennale, Chongqing Art Museum, Chongqing, 2018; Young Tide, Case Exhibition of Past Winners of the School of Natural Color, Art Museum of China Academy of Fine Arts, Hangzhou, 2018; The Form of Thought, the 8th New Star Art Award, Deji Art Museum, Nanjing, 2017; Xinglin Xiying, China Art Palace, Shanghai, 2017; European Tour of Chinese New Realistic Art, Art Museum of Lucerne University, Switzerland, 2017; Antibody - New Visual Arts Festival, China Art Museum, Shenzhen, 2017; Important awards include: Luo Zhongli Scholarship, 2020; National Scholarship, 2019; On the ground and on the distance, the first Chongqing Oil Painting Biennale Excellence Award, 2018
