【OCAT上海馆 | 展讯】廖斐 | 这一切是随机发生的吗？
OCAT上海馆 | 第二期C空间计划
项目总策划：陶寒辰
廖斐 | 这一切是随机发生的吗？
艺术家：廖斐
策展人：王姝曼
策展助理：钱安利
展览时间：2021年1月23日至3月28日
展览地点：上海市静安区曲阜路9弄下沉庭院 | 多功能空间
展览主办：OCAT上海馆
展览协办：华侨城（上海）置地有限公司
特别支持：Vanguard画廊
开幕日程 | 2021年1月23日，周六
14:30-15:30
开幕对谈（对谈人：廖斐、王姝曼）
15:30—16:00
开幕导览
16:00-19:00
展厅开放
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OCAT上海馆将于2021年1月23日至3月21日荣幸呈现第2期C空间计划——“廖斐 | 这一切是随机发生的吗？”。从对“物质”本质的疑惑到对二元论认知系统的质疑，再转向至几何化的数理试验，廖斐一直以来的工作方式都是通过低限的数理逻辑表达，在抽象、感性的艺术现场反复推演我们感知和经验中的“物质世界”背后存在及运行的规律。
对于日常生活中的基础性概念和公理，我们鲜少追问其真实性，甚至根本不会注意到它们，这样的经验性认知恰好落脚在了模糊不清的假定叠加中。当追问直线的存在性时，只有假定“空间与时间是平滑、均匀的介质”，才得以绕出循环定义的怪圈；当辨识光的物质属性时，只有假定在经典力学的宏观系统内，才可以将其归类为由粒子组成的物质。在人类既定感知与经验的不确定性面前，笛卡尔（Rene Descartes）曾表达其对代数和几何的信任偏向，即代数和几何只与纯粹和简单的对象相关，并通过理性的论证而进行演绎，以至于它们不可能成为任何不确定经验的假定依据。在工具理性的角度之外，几何学从多余的观念中抽身，回归到对基本几何图形的分析和归纳中，从而建立推理长链达致结论。几何学中的“理性视角”和“基本工具”构成了廖斐独特的创作语言，正如他的自我阐述：“相对于‘柔软的材料’、‘含糊的表述’、‘个人的情感化’，我更倾向于‘坚硬的材料’、‘清晰的表述’和‘去情感化’。对于这两者，前者更让我警惕一些。”
廖斐，“平滑之镜”系列，摄于艺术家工作室
廖斐，“物质轨迹”系列，摄于艺术家工作室
展览“这一切是随机发生的吗？”将在展厅中呈现四组纸本和装置作品——记录了物质在空间中的存在状态。“平滑之镜”系列基于对物质对称性的考察，从宏观中天体系统的时空对称性到微观中晶体的旋转对称性和平移对称性，自然呈现出了秩序井然的完美对称结构。但与此同时，不完美的对称性自发破缺与之相生相随，从而引出物质的质量属性及形态的多异性。廖斐在“平滑之镜”中运用简单的纸本和油墨材料进行对称规则的推演，干燥后的纸张记录下物质在空间中被折叠和挤压时发生的状态。“物质轨迹”系列中加入了物质运动的元素，通过反复在纸张上进行喷墨，并与玻璃球、陀螺等物体的自发运动及人为干预相交织，留下随机性的重叠与遮盖痕迹。创作“物质轨迹”的工作台四周被廖斐人为设置了运动试验场的边界，抛掷的球体脱离人手后自由落体留下连续的运动轨迹，人是运动的初始推动者吗？第一推动力又从何而来？物质进入运动后，对于自然既定公理的疑惑开始再次浮现。“区域材质”系列将呈现更为随机态的像素点分布。将平面纸张折叠成立体结构，喷墨完成后进行手绘描点。经过多次折叠、着色，以及随机性上墨的“区域材质”，意外地在无序中隐现出了统一的材质感。《标记物》受到展厅空间非常规结构的细节启发，廖斐将根据该场域进行特定创作，运用石墨材料将整个物理空间提炼为观念化的抽象空间。客观的空间标记和人为的干预标记杂糅在叠落的墨粉中，平坦将空间的不对称性和凸起的地面障碍物消解，并标记出人为活动的边界，在虚空中截取出一段不可进入的空间属性。
廖斐，特定场域作品《标记物》布展中
这一切是随机发生的吗？试验过程都是经过艺术家设定的，并早在人为设定之前，观察结果在物质范畴内已经被自然限定所发生的可能性了。对此，海森堡（Werner Heisenberg）曾经说过：“我们观察到的并不是自然本身，而是自然对我们的观察方法做出的回应。”在我们对自然只存在有限认知的条件下，概率成为了对随机发生的可能性的一种定量化的描述方法，并与此同时微妙地滑向了一种解答因果关系的感性预期。
文 / 王姝曼
图片由崔鋆俊拍摄，版权所属OCAT上海馆
关于艺术家
廖斐1981年出生于景德镇，目前工作生活于上海。廖斐的艺术创作是从对物质的界定以及自身的疑惑开始的，并希望通过反复的基础试验得以接近物质本身。出于对二元论的强烈兴趣及矛盾认知，使得他将试验范围扩展到在二元基础上建立的尺度，以及系统本身。
近期（部分）个展
“广延”，Vanguard 画廊+零时艺术中心，上海，2018
“平坦”，上海玻璃博物馆，上海，2016
“视角”，YveYANG 画廊，波士顿，美国，2016
近期（部分）群展
“C”，油罐艺术中心，上海，2020
“退火”，玻璃博物馆，上海，2020
“EXIT PLAN”，SNAP艺术中心，上海，2019
“In The Open Or In Stealth”，巴塞罗那当代艺术美术馆
巴塞罗那，西班牙，2018
“BOTANICA”， 釜山市立美术馆，釜山，韩国，2018
OCAT Shanghai | C-PLAN
Project Director: Tao Hanchen
Term 2, C-PLAN | Liao Fei | Is everything a contingent occurrence?
Artist: Liao Fei
Curator: Wang Shuman
Curatorial Assistant: Qian Anli
Duration: 23 January to 28 March, 2021
Venue: Multifunction | Lane 9, Qufu Road, Jing'an District, Shanghai
Exhibition Organizer: OCAT Shanghai
Exhibition Co-organizer: OCT Land (Shanghai) Investment Ltd.
Special Support: Vanguard Gallery
Opening Schedule | 23 January 2021
14:30-15:30
Opening Talk (Guests: Liao Fei, Wang Shuman)
15:30-16:00
Opening Tour
16:00-19:00
Exhibition Opening
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OCAT Shanghai is delighted to present the Term 2 of the C-Space Project -- Liao Fei | Is everything a contingent occurrence? From January 23 to March 28, 2021. Shifting from questioning the nature of "matter" to the dualistic system of human cognition, then to geometric mathematical experiments, Liao Fei’s art practice deduces the existence and operative patterns behind the "material world" of our perception and experience through abstract and sensual art scene expressed in common mathematical and physical logic. For the fundamental concepts and axioms of everyday life, we rarely enquire about their reality or even notice them at all, and such empirical perceptions fall right into a vague superimposition of assumptions. To hypothesize the existence of a straight line would require the premise of "even and uniform conditions of time and space," only then would one get out of the loop of a circular definition; when identifying the material properties of light, only by assuming that it is within the macroscopic system of classical mechanics, can we classify it as a substance composed of particles. Confronted by the indeterminacy of human perception and experience, Descartes expressed his bias for algebra and geometry. According to Descartes' conception, these two disciplines were only relevant to pure and simple objects and deduced through rational proofs, to the extent that they could not be the assumed basis of any indeterminate experience. Outside the perspective of instrumental rationality, geometry takes a break from superfluous ideas and returns to the analysis and induction of basic geometric figures, thus building long chains of reasoning to reach conclusions. The "rational perspective" and "basic tools" in geometry constitute Liao Fei's unique creative language. In his own words, "As opposed to 'soft materials, ''ambiguous expression' and 'personal emotion,' I prefer 'solid material,' 'straightforward expression' and 'stoicism.' For both ends, I am more vigilant of the former.”
Liao Fei, Even Mirror series, in the artist's studio
Liao Fei, Trajectory of Matter series, in the artist's studio
The exhibition Is everything a contingent occurrence? will present four groups of works on paper and installation - documenting the state of matter in physical space. The Even Mirror series is based on investigating the symmetry of matter. The spatiotemporal balance of celestial systems in the macrocosm to the rotational and translational symmetry of crystals in the microcosm naturally presents as a perfectly ordered symmetrical structure. However, the imperfect spontaneous symmetry breaking goes hand in hand with it, which leads to the qualitative properties and multiple anomalies of matter. Liao Fei adopts simple paper and ink materials for Even Mirror to deduce the principles of symmetry. The dried paper records the state of matter as it is folded and compressed in space. Trajectory of Matter incorporates elements of material movement from repeated ink-jetting on the paper, in addition to the spontaneous motion of objects such as glass balls, gyroscopes, and human intervention, leaving random overlapping and obscuring traces. Around the workbench on which Trajectory of Matter is executed, Liao Fei set up the parameter for this motion experiment, so once the ball is thrown and fell freely, leaving a trajectory of movements, does that qualify the thrower the impetus of such motion? Where does inertia come from? When the matter is set into motion, doubts about nature's established axioms begin to emerge again. Area Materials presents a more random distribution of pixels. A piece of paper is folded into a three-dimensional structure, and the dots are hand-painted after the ink-jetting is completed. The multiple folding and coloring and the episodic nature of the mixed ink spraying process afford Area Materials a sense of order and uniformity in the disorder. Area Marking is inspired by the details of the unconventional structure of the current exhibition space. Liao Fei will create a specific work based on the site, using pencil as the only tool to sublimate the entire physical space into a conceptual space of abstraction. Existing spatial markers and human interventions will blend from the repetitive overlays of graphite powder, flattening the asymmetry of the space and dissolving the uneven obstacles on the ground, while drawing a parameter of human activity, delineating a section of inaccessible spatial properties in the void.
Liao Fei, site-specific work Area Marking, on the installation
Is everything a contingent occurrence? All of the experimental processes have been set up by the artist, the possibilities for natural occurrence has been confined by its conditions prior to the artist's setup, as we will discover through observations. In this regard, Heisenberg once said: "What we observe is not nature itself, but nature's response to our method of observation." Given our limited knowledge of nature, probability becomes a quantitative description of random occurrences, meanwhile, a perceptual expectation for answers of causality slips through subtly.
Text by Wang Shuman
Photo by Cui Junjun, photo ©OCAT Shanghai
About the Artist
Liao Fei was born in Jingdezhen, China, and currently lives and works in Shanghai. Liao Fei's artistic practice is propelled by the quest to define matter and discover the self, who hopes approaching matter through repetitive yet essential experiments. Intrigued by the notion of dualism and contradictory perceptions, Liao expands his experiments' parameters beyond the scale and system of duality.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
RES EXTENSA, Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai, China, 2018
Plain, Shanghai Museum of Glass, Shanghai, China, 2018
Perspective, Yve YANG Gallery, Boston, USA, 2018
Selected Group Exhibitions
C, TANK SHANGHAI, Shanghai, China, 2020
ANNEALING, Shanghai Museum of Glass, Shanghai, China, 2020
EXIT PLAN, SNAP, Shanghai, China, 2019
In The Open Or In Stealth, MACBA, Barcelona, Spain, 2018
BOTANICA, BMA, Busan, Korea, 2018
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