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上海狮語｜《昨日的世界》 胡顺香个展 ｜ 策展人：宁文 ｜7月22号开幕
狮語画廊欣然宣布将于 2023 年 7 月 22 日至 8 月 27 日举办胡顺香的个展《昨日的世界》。展览由宁文策划，涵盖了艺术家近年来横跨七个系列共33件作品，较完整地呈现了艺术家近三年的新作。这是一个关于人存在本身所面临之困境的展览，一个关于失落、希望、恐惧、爱、死亡、绽放、自由、生命与生活的展览。
Leo Gallery is pleased to announce that it will host Hu Shunxiang's solo exhibition The World of Yesterday from July 22 to August 27, 2023. Curated by Ning Wen, the exhibition is a selection of 33 artworks from 7 series that are representative of the artist's oeuvre from 2020 to the present. This is an exhibition about the dilemma of human existence itself - loss, hope, fear, love, death, blossoming, freedom, life, and living.
一直以来，胡顺香的作品从外在的形式上具有一种古典主义的气质，这也许源于她学习西画出身；但是她作品的内核具有丰富的文学性和哲思精神，探讨当今世界人类共通的很多问题。在艺术家的潜意识中，她对神秘主义的东西天生有一种亲近感。胡顺香的创作基本上围绕文本、故事、戏剧以及电影展开；形式上包括绘画、绘画装置、舞台剧等；艺术家擅长使用不同媒介展开创作。在《昨日的世界》中，她既是艺术家，也是导演与编剧。
Throughout her career, Hu's works have had a classical quality in their external form, perhaps due to her background in studying oil painting. However, the core of her work is rich in a literary and philosophical spirit, exploring many common issues that humanity is faced with in the current world. In the artist's subconscious, she has a natural affinity for mystical things. Hu's creative work is mainly centered around texts, stories, dramas, and films, and her forms of expression include painting, painting installations, stage plays, and more. The artist excels in using different media to engage in her creative work. For The World of Yesterday, she acts not only as an artist but also as a director and screenwriter.
从视觉层面来看，胡顺香的作品具有两个非常突出的特点。一是画面中出现的人，一般都是面目模糊的，因为艺术家不希望他/她是一个非常具体的人或者是特定的人，“我希望他/她可以是任何一个人，当你在代入的时候，他/她是具有共同性、具有普遍性的生命，而不是特殊性。”二是她作品的调子，整体上用色都是比较偏灰的。这不禁让人联想到比利时画家吕克·图伊曼斯（Luc Tuymans）那或苍白、或诡异的色调。图伊曼斯的创作基于新闻图片中具有争议的、具体的某个人，再重新进行编码、创作出新的图像，呈现出时代的感觉；而胡顺香也在探索一个时代的群像，在这个层面上，胡顺香与图伊曼斯具有某种相通之处。
From a visual perspective, Hu's works have two prominent features. One is that the human figures appearing on the canvases are generally vague because the artist does not want him/her to be a very specific person: "I hope he/she can be anyone, an individual and life with commonality and universality - not particularity.” Secondly, the overall color she chooses is dyed with a greyish tone. This cannot help but remind people of the pale or eerie tone of the Belgian painter Luc Tuymans, whose works are based on specific people in the news who are particularly controversial. Tuymans re-interpreted those materials to form new images which capture the emotional atmosphere of the times, while Hu explores what the group portrait of the era we live in is like. In this sense, Hu Shunxiang and Tuymans share a certain similarity.
胡顺香是一位创作力充沛的艺术家。自2018年完成第一部完整的绘画装置“奥德赛.布莱恩”之后，2021年至2023年胡顺香又相继完成了“出走的娜拉”、“隐于书后”、“十日谈”、“玫瑰骑士”这几个独立的作品系列。
Hu is an artist with abundant creativity. Since the completion of the first complete painting installation Outside the Plan in 2018, Hu has successively completed several independent series of works such as The Departure of Nora, To Walk Invisible, Decameron, and The Knight of the Rose.
本次展出的部分作品虽然涉及女性话题，但这并非一个女性主义的展览，因为它终极上探讨的是人活着的本身。呈现于画廊一层的作品相对更加关注女性话题，比如“出走的娜拉”；而“隐于书后”和“时时刻刻”，则分别致敬了勃朗特三姐妹（the Bronte Sisters）与弗吉妮娅·伍尔芙（Virginia Woolf）——艺术家对于她们的命运感同身受，跨越这么长的历史时间，其实这些问题直到今天依然存在。而二层的作品大部分是2022年至2023年的新作，主要呈现了“九道门”、“十日谈”和“玫瑰骑士”三个重要系列。作品以一个个隐秘的故事徐徐展开，涉及男女两性、人之存在本身以及全球共同经历过一个特殊历史时期之后艺术家的个人思考。
Although some of the works exhibited this time involve female topics, this is not a feminist exhibition because it ultimately explores human existence itself. The works presented on the first floor of the gallery are relatively more focused on female aspects, such as The Departure of Nora while To Walk Invisible and The Hours pay homage to the Bronte Sisters and Virginia Woolf, respectively - the artist empathizes with their fates, for the problems women have faced across such a long period of history still exist today. The majority of the works on the second floor are works from 2022 to 2023, presenting three important series: Nine Gates, Decameron, and The Knight of the Rose. The works unfold in a series of hidden stories about men and women, human existence itself, and the artist's reflections on a particular period in history that everyone in this world has shared.