【展讯】Codie个展——空房间｜厦门
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Codie个展——空房间
艺术家：Codie Yan
策展人：滕青云
主办：三影堂厦门摄影艺术中心
展期：2022年6月5日-7月3日
开幕：2022年6月5日 15:00
地点：厦门市集美区杏林湾商务营运中心二号楼裙楼三层
如果有机会做一个个展，你会选择哪些作品，怎么呈现？Codie非常快地就决定，她要一个——“空房间”。但并不是Codie“的”空房间，而是Codie“空”房间。对于这个展览，“空”可以是一个形容词，但更像一个动词，好似Codie作为一个创作者，不停地在由内向外、定期地“空”出自己的作品、搬到这个“房间”（展厅）里。
Codie是一个创作力丰盛的艺术家，几天不见，就会发现她又有了好几个不同媒介的创作。这些作品，无一不源于她对周遭和社会敏锐的感受和碰撞。她习惯独自彳亍于这个世界，敏锐地观察、思考和提问，但她又从不止于“旁观”；将对弱者和困境的感同身受，通过她的行为、装置、影像、摄影作品迸发出来。
这次的展览空间可以划分为：公园、卧房和秘密花园三个区域，分别展出了装置作品“什么是我们的当代”，摄影作品“Fiber”(纤维)和影像作品“The Murmurs at Violet Hour”（喃喃紫时光）三个系列。走进这间房，处于暗场的Fiber系列和暖室中的Violet Hour作品展示出了截然不同的风格。
《火山口》，2022年
Fiber系列里，与身体和自然关联的黑白画面，呈现出Codie与现实世界“碰撞”后的孤独，疑惑，不解和愤懑。疫情下的独居生活，让Codie被置入只能看到“自我”的镜像环境中，她开始用“摄影”对身体和情绪进行“格物”式的探索和记录。逐渐地，Codie找到自然与身体之间隐微的关联：爬满荆棘的土坡，如同母亲身上无法消除的妊娠纹；干枯缠绕的枝干，仿佛是人被迫扭曲的躯体；恣意蔓延的水藻，好似遏制不住的焦虑……Codie通过这些作品，无声而有力地，展示对世界和自身的探索、确认、质疑。在这样一个互联网娱乐的时代背景下，Codie面对世界近乎执着的追问，不免显得茕茕孑立，但又充满了生命力。
《不可永生的》，2020年
Mortal, 2020
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Codie Solo Exhibition —— Empty Room
Artist: Codie Yan
Curator: Teng Qingyun
Organizer: Three Shadows Xiamen Photography Art Centre
Duration: Jun 5, 2022 - Jul 3, 2022
Opening: Jun 5, 2022 15:00
Venue: 3rd Floor of Building 2, Xinglinwan Business Center, Jimei District, Xiamen
If you were to have a solo exhibition, which works would you present and how would you present them? Codie instantly decided that she wanted to show an "Empty Room," which is not an empty room that she owns but one that she has emptied. Here, "empty" is more of a verb than an adjective as if Codie, as a creator, is continually "emptying" her observations, experiences, feelings, questions, and creations from the inside out, and then transferring them all into this "room" (or exhibition hall).
Codie is a prolific artist who creates new pieces in a variety of media nearly every other day. Her works are always motivated by strong feelings and interactions with the environment and society. She enjoys roaming alone, observing, thinking, and raising questions, but she is never just a "bystander." Her performances, installations, films, and photographic works demonstrate her compassion for people in need and their struggles.
The exhibition space is divided into three sections: the park, the bedroom, and the secret garden. Each section features a different series, namely, the installation work, What Is Our Contemporary, the photographic work, Fiber, and the video work, The Murmurs at Violet Hour. When you walk into the room, you'll notice the Fiber series in the dark and The Murmurs at Violet Hour series in the warm, creating an interesting contrast.
《她的“礼带”》，2022年
Her Ribbons, Her Stretch-marks, 2022
The black and white images linked to the idea of body and nature in the Fiber series reflect Codie's loneliness, doubts, disbelief, and contempt after "confronting" reality. Codie was placed in a mirror environment where she could only see her "self" while living alone during the pandemic, and she began to study and document her body and feelings in the approach of conducting an investigation through photography. Codie gradually discovered a subtle connection between nature and the human body: thorny slopes resemble indelible stretch marks on a woman's body; dry and twisted branches mirror a human body forced to twist; sprawling algae represents uncontrollable anxiety......Codie uses these pieces to describe her quiet but powerful discovery, confirmation, questioning, and even resentment of the world and herself. In this era of the Internet and entertainment, Codie's strong and persistent inquiries and acts of expressing in the face of reality, despite standing alone, are in fact full of energy.
《项与项链》，2021年
The Neck & Necklace, 2021
Codie's work, like in the Fiber series, can be powerful and direct at times, but her genuine undertones and driving forces are rooted in The Murmurs at Violet Hour, where she exhibits her truthfulness, gentleness, and curiosity. Codie "runs away" for the first time in this film. Through glowing footage of everyday life shot throughout her journey and narration blended with quiet murmurs, she expresses her thoughts on "time," "love," "joy," and "desire" in the most straightforward way possible. Her thoughts are murmured, much like the title of the work, with no attempt to draw standards or conclusions. Instead, the film's flowing images and dialogues in a stream-of-consciousness style allow the audience to enter Codie's world of truth-seeking, exploration, and experience in everyday life.
《喃喃紫时光》视频截图，2019年
The Murmurs At Violet Hour screenshot, 2019
Fiber and The Murmurs at Violet Hour showcase Codie's two creative poles. They are unique reflections of her acquired experiences as a result of her coming face to face with reality. "I want the audience to be able to renew their vision and be amazed at the sight of everything everywhere," Codie once said. In the same way, I hope some of you in Codie's "room" may experience life's vitality reviving in her works.
——Text/Teng Qingyun
· Aritist Biography ·
Codie Yan's work combines photography, collage, video, performance, and installation to explore the narratives and power of womanhood and selfhood. Yan's work is often tender and personal yet constantly questioning and reflecting on the complexity of identity, alienation and trauma, human connections, and warmth. Yan earned her BFA from Syracuse University. Her work has been exhibited at Light Work Photography Center, Syracuse International Film Festival, and Tank Art Center in Shanghai. This year, she has attended the Artist in Residence program at Three Shadows Photography Center in Xiamen, China.
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