【展讯】神思远个展——澄清宇宙｜厦门
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神思远个展——澄清宇宙
策展人｜肖瑞昀
艺术总监｜滕青云
主办｜三影堂厦门摄影艺术中心
联合呈现｜三影堂+3画廊
展期｜2022年7月16日 - 9月11日
开幕｜2022年7月16日 15:30
地点｜厦门市集美区杏林湾商务营运中心二号楼裙楼三层
选自《澄清宇宙》系列
Translucent Universe series
选自《澄清宇宙》系列
Translucent Universe series
——文/肖瑞昀
生于1983年，现居北京的独立艺术创作者和电影导演，以摄影结合影像、平面及写作作为主要创作媒介。神思远曾于《男人装》等国内知名媒体出版物担任影像总监。2016年，他完成了从时尚摄影师到艺术创作者的转变，并在同年创建自媒体平台“平面国”而广受公众关注。2017年出版个人首部作品集《野和少女》，2020年出版摄影集《卑鄙的花》——这些充满隐喻和看似荒诞的作品画面塑造并展现了神思远对于所处世界的独特感知，以及从另类视角切入现实的摄影创作。
神思远近期个展包括，2018年上海复星艺术中心“Fifty, Fifty”；2020年三影堂摄影艺术中心“荒糖”。他的作品被广泛展出于许多艺术空间和实验项目，如2016年“日常·遇见”中外青年摄影师展，中华世纪坛，北京；2020年“重聚”三周年特别联展，白场，北京；2020年“三影万象”联合策展计划，厦门万象城。自2022年起，神思远开启并投入到个人全新的影像创作项目——“澄清宇宙”。
Jin Shien’s Solo Exhibition
Translucent Universe
Curator: Xiao Ruiyun
Art Director: Teng Qingyun
Organizer: Three Shadows Xiamen Photography Art Centre
Co-Presenter: Three Shadows +3 Gallery
Duration: Jul 16, 2022 - Sep 11, 2022
Opening: Jul 16, 2022 16:00
Venue: 3rd Floor of Building 2, Xinglinwan Business Center, Jimei District, Xiamen
Jin Shien's works are embedded in the surreal realm of "Ragnarök."1 In Norse mythology, the surviving gods and humans build a new world after going through a series of disasters and revolutionary upheavals. In this visual universe created by Shien, his works are mostly artificial creations made of images, evoking bizarre tales in the fantastic realm using reconstructed materials. They transcend Shien's immediate experience and feelings, as gods and ghosts take on different guises and walk with humans in both the wilderness and the urban landscape.
The first half of the exhibition resembles the beginning of the universe, where everything is expanding, and then explodes and reforms in an instant in infinite space-time. All things in heaven and on earth are merged as the blazingsun sinks into the horizon and the burning trees take on the form of man. Concrete beings like humans or frogs are vividly displayed in the limited space. They are interconnected and create a pluralistic order.
In another area of the exhibition, numerous spirits manifest in semi-invisible forms in the dark, making subtle connections and extending themselves in the unseen. We see the mountain spirit accompanied by electric waves, the flowing water juxtaposed with coins that stand in for human traces, and other images that all seem to point toward a guiding force that is beyond actual time and space. We also see the sunken head of a beast on the island and a warship suspended above a desolate land, all interrelated on the horizon of the universe. The energy of God is secretly in charge, directing the infinite wheel of life. The symbolic subjects in these works are sometimes revealed and sometimes blurred, creating a rather illusory world.
Shien inserts various symbolic subjects in an effort to make sense of his worldview and to make sense of the chaos in his self-consciousness. His bizarre and fantastic world blurs the line between physical and virtual space, illuminating the existence of individual experience and the imagination of multiple dimensions amid the chaos. This creative process is a constant struggle between the self and the outside world and thus fosters new perspectives on the past from a personal timeline. These cumulative energies create a mystical and spiritual metaphor that leads viewers through various contexts and sheds light on the odd connections between the universe and the human mind.
Note：1. Ragnarok, or Ragnarök in Norwegian, is a reference to the prophecy of the Battle of Armageddon in Norse mythology.
——Text/Xiao Ruiyun
Jin Shien, Born 1983 and currently living and working in Beijing, Jin Shien is an independent photographer and film director who adopts photography with video, graphic work and literature as the major medium for artistic creation. Shien was the director of photography for For Him Magazine before completing his transition from a fashion photographer to photographic artist in 2016. In the same year, he created Flatland, a media subscription platform that has enjoyed growing popularity among the public. By 2020, Shien has published two photo books, namely Wild & Girls and Baby Flower, which provide a clear idea about the artist’s unique perception derived from an alternative vision to understand the world, illustrated by the metaphoric and seemingly absurd photographs taken by him.
Shien’s recent solo exhibitions include ‘Fifty, Fifty’ at Fosun Foundation, Shanghai in 2018 and ‘Love · Nonsense’ at Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing & Xiamen in 2020. His works have also been exhibited in a number of art spaces and projects, such as ‘Wild Chronicles’, Beijing World Art Museum, 2016; ‘Reunion’, White Field, Beijing, 2020; ‘An Abundant Image World’, Mixc+Art, Xiamen, 2021. Since 2022, Shien has embarked on his latest project of video art, entitled ’Translucent Universe’.
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