魔金石空间即将展出丨蜕皮动物——姚清妹个展
蜕皮动物——姚清妹个展
开幕时间：2017年7月7日，18:00 - 22:00
展览时间：2017年7月7日 - 8月20日
魔金石空间非常荣幸地推出姚清妹在中国的第二次个展“蜕皮动物”，这也是长驻巴黎的艺术家首次在中国驻地创作的全新项目。
延续在魔金石空间的第一次个展“姚教授”（2015）中对权力系统的质疑，姚清妹在本次展览中制造出一个诙谐荒诞的“安检”现场，从入口开始“强制”观众通过由艺术家设计的安抚机制，进入一个“歌舞剧场”：带有强烈指涉的三屏影像从身体、修辞、规训系统、私密与公共空间等角度对生命政治作出回应。
展览标题“蜕皮动物”来源于H.L.孟肯创造的“蜕皮者”一词，而这一用以代指脱衣舞者的词语恰恰展现了现代个体的真实状态：我们正生活在一个对所有个体的赤裸生命施加严密控制的体系中，这个系统优雅而精密——在它美妙的外壳下，法律秩序悬置的空间呈现出一种温柔的残酷性，使人不知不觉中接受了暴力成为常规的现实，身体从而成为机械流水线上服从权力管制的部件。姚清妹在作品中庄严地指出这一现实，却又以滑稽歌舞和按摩装置给观众一剂欢乐抚慰的唆麻：每个进入展厅的观众都将无可逃脱地暴露在敞视之下，接受艺术家提供的一剂“蜕皮激素”。
关于艺术家：
姚清妹，1982年出生于中国浙江，2013年毕业于法国阿尔松国立高等艺术学院，现工作生活于法国巴黎。
主要个展：蜕皮动物，魔金石空间，北京，中国（2017）；姚教授——三足鼎及其鼎纹研究，OCAT 西安，陕西，中国（2016）；为博览会招聘乞丐，L'ART-O-RAMA，马赛，法国（2015）；一小时占据停车位，Paradise艺术中心，南特，法国（2015）；姚教授——姚清妹个展，魔金石空间，北京，中国（2015）；姚清妹个展，东京宫，巴黎，法国（2014）。
重要群展：“万丈高楼平地起”第二届长江国际影像双年展，重庆，中国（2017）；例外状态：中国境况与艺术考察2017，UCCA，北京，中国（2017）；HISTORICODE：萧条与供给，第三届南京国际美术展，百家湖艺术馆，南京，中国（2016）；不早不晚，佩斯北京，北京，中国（2016）；Yes I can! Un portrait du pouvoir, 本雅明当代艺术中心，佩皮尼昂，法国（2016）；欧洲青年艺术家双年展，Kunstbygningen博物馆，弗罗，丹麦（2016）；，马赛，法国（2015）；FIAC博览会，(OFF)ICIELLE，巴黎，法国（2014）；以语为易，Rochechouart美术馆，罗什舒阿尔，法国（2014）；艺术喜剧，Foundation de doute，布鲁瓦，法国（2014）；59届Salon de Mountrouge，蒙鲁日，法国（2014）等。
The Ecdysiast
Yao Qingmei
Opening: 7th July, 6 pm to 10 pm
Exhibition: 7th July to 20th August 2017
Magician Space is pleased to present The Ecdysiast, a second solo exhibition with the gallery by Paris-based artist Yao Qingmei. The exhibition will debut a new installation, marking for the first time a commission of work produced by the artist in China.
In the new work, Yao employs the apparatus of a security checkpoint as inspiration to create an absurd and satirical setting within the gallery. The installation is partitioned into three areas across the exhibition building: custom-made stanchions delineate a path from the entryway into the exhibition; an ‘x-ray machine’ awaits viewers to pass into; and a triptych of moving-image projections coerces audience members into a final theatrical space that combines burlesque performance, choral music and modern dance. Mimicking the protocols of a checkpoint, the artist highlights the linguistic and physical experiences of control as they become exerted onto the public - parodying its conventions as well as the choreographed assembly line-like procedures.
The Ecdysiast takes its title from a term originally coined by H.L. Mencken, meaning to ‘molt’, a word envisaged as a replacement for the word ‘stripper’. Here, the description can also be considered within the context of our contemporary condition and today’s state of affairs: the increasing scrutiny on our individuality as it becomes exposed to tighter systems of collective control. Seemingly benign in appearance, these systems operate in spaces of ambiguity where a suspension of law occurs. Behind the gentle gestures belies a logic of forced compliance, something so routine to our daily lives that its violence eventually has become imperceptible to us. Theatrical and burlesque, Yao brings to our attention the absurdity, but also the ambivalence of our tacit assent to the situation - subverting this logic by imagining a new form of play through her satirical imitations.
Notes to Editors
Yao Qingmei (b. 1982, Zhejiang Province) currently lives and works in Paris. Major solo exhibitions include: The Ecdysiast, Magician Space, Beijing, CN (2017); Professor Yao, OCAT Xi’an, Shanxi, CN (2016); Recrute mendicant / SDF pour une foire d’art contemporain, Marseilles, FR (2015); One Hour Occupy Parking Lot, Paradise, Nante, FR (2015); Professor Yao, Magician Space, Beijing, CN (2015); Vernissage Nouvelles Expos, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR (2014). Major group exhibitions include: Every Skyscraper is Built from the Ground, the 2nd Changjiang International Photography and Video Biennale, Chongqing, CN (2017); The New Normal: Art and China in 2017, UCCA, Beijing, CN (2017); HISTORICODE: Scarcity & Supply, The 3rd Nanjing International Art Festival, Baijiahu Art Museum, Nanjing, CN (2016); Not Early Not Late, Pace Beijing, Beijing, CN (2016); Yes I can! Un portrait du pouvoir, Centre d’art contemporain Walter Benjamin, Perpignan, FR (2016); JCE Biennale 2015-2017, Kunstbygningen Museum, Vra, Denmark (2016); FMAC booth, FIAC, (OFF)ICIELLE, Paris, FR (2014); Le commerce de la parole, Museum Rochechouart, Rochechouart, FR (2014); La Comedie de l’Art, Fondation de doute, Ville de Blois, FR (2014); 59e Salon de Montrouge, Ville de Montrouge, Montrouge, FR (2014).
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