没顶画廊 | 沈莘个展 “使饱和” 将于3月22日开幕

沈莘：使饱和

SHEN XIN: TO SATIATE

开幕/Opening

2019.03.22 16:00

展期/Exhibition Period

2019.03.22 - 05.05

没顶画廊 | 上海市徐汇区龙腾大道2879号106室

MadeIn Gallery | No. 106, 2879 Longteng Ave., Xuhui District, Shanghai

没顶画廊将于2019年3月22日推出艺术家沈莘个展“使饱和”。这是艺术家在画廊的首次个展，呈现其最新的录像作品《温暖期》和《精神流通》。“使饱和”将角色构建在不平整的知识结构上，脱离中心化与重点化的行为及目的，而转向服务于角色自身的饱和度。

最新项目四频录像装置《精神流通》通过动画和文本呈现一段基于脚本的独白。在主体的意识退场之后，将转喻的权力导向饱和，通过四个频道的流转，“翻译”和“比较”被当作可以被置换的语言空间。庄子的文本在法文、英文和中文这三种不同的语言之间建立起各自的表达方式。艺术家母亲的独白，依靠声音引导着各语言对角色的需求。单频录像 《温暖期》中的多音爱人，以她变换的情绪唤醒黑白角色的千万欲望、直觉和记忆。在泰国瑶亚岛上，两个独立存在的主体，作为彼此的爱人和伴侣，在他者的潜在需求与对异质性的判断间平衡。影像中涉及的气候、环境、种族与经验充斥着也同时瓦解着角色的感官。

在各种角色中被建构的自我，和系统权力之间的关系是多变的。若主体自身的欲望保持着不连贯性，不遵从于叙事的期待，他们和环境之间的关系则有着不可估计的力度。缝隙，由这样的力度产生；使得两种质性之间的空地成为了新的时间，并被赋予属于她的流动方式。 一个角色对于声音、感官和语言的需求与产出通常是难以介入的，或者说，它被感知到的差别和超越性是灵活机动的。多重角色的构建与他们各自存在的单一性，都期待发声的场域，能够超越脆弱的地理想象。而这场域本身存在的危险性与舒适感，都成为角色被实体化与鬼魅化的媒介。

沈莘的艺术实践涉及电影、视频装置和行为艺术。在其呈现的视觉图景里，艺术家坚持危机与舒适并存的承诺，个体和群体以单元的形式在不同场域出现，且作为指代对象存在于复杂的社会政治系统中。为抵制形成另一个可被压迫的权力结构的可能性，作品中的主人公被赋予了按照自己的意愿叙述、说话和行动的权力，保持了不一致、中断和暂停的完整性。她的作品不妥协地构造了一个产生抽象包容和异化的过程，形成了一种他者对所用图像表征作出反射的途径。

关于沈莘

沈莘（1990年生于成都）工作生活于伦敦和阿姆斯特丹。她的创作通过探索影像及事件来实现，同时运用虚构和真实的信息与手法。通过影像及事件，沈莘的创作探索情感、价值判断和伦理在个体及群体层面的循环运动。她的实践专注于人与人间的复杂关系和政治的叙事，影像往往致力于创造反身性，以此解构占统治地位的权力结构。

她最近的个人项目包括：《居住的方法》，K11艺术中心，上海（2018）；《Sliced Units》,CFCCA, 曼彻斯特（2018）；《半说半唱》，“公园之夜”，蛇形画廊，伦敦（2017）；《据点》，荔枝一号，伦敦（2017）；《原本包容》，CFCCA, 曼彻斯特（2016）；《在家》，剩余空间，武汉（2016）；。她近期参与的群展包括：《新冶金者》，Julia Stoschek Collection, 杜塞尔多夫（2018）；《破坏之歌，新美术馆三年展》，新美术馆，纽约（2018）；《例外状态》，UCCA，北京（2017）等。沈莘于2017年被授予“BALTIC艺术家奖”，2018-2019年参与荷兰皇家艺术学院艺术家驻留项目。

关于没顶画廊

创办于2009年，以生产艺术创造力为核心致力于当代文化无限可能的没顶公司，于2014年正式推出旗下新机构——没顶画廊。没顶画廊以推广高质量的当代艺术家和活动为己任，推动当代文化的发展与交流。

没顶画廊合作艺术家包括：陈冷、陈英、丁力、艾略特•多德（Elliot Dodd）、何岸、李汉威、刘成瑞、陆博宇、陆平原、苗颖、莫少龙、佩恩恩、商亮、沈莘、UMA、王思顺、王新一、夏云飞、徐大卫、徐震®、杨深、张联、郑源、朱昱。

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MadeIn Gallery is pleased to present “To Satiate” Shen Xin’s first solo exhibition in the gallery, opening on March 22, 2019. Featuring the artist’s latest video works Warm Spell and Commerce Des Esprits, “To Satiate” builds characters upon uneven knowledge formations, deviating from facilitating acts and goals that centralise and prioritise, to serve the saturation of the roles.

The latest four channel video installation Commerce Des Esprits consists of a script-based monologue through animation and text. With exits of the subject's consciousness, the power of metonymies is guided towards being satiated, while within the four channels, "translations" and "comparisons" are treated as replaceable linguistic spaces. Between the three languages French, English and Chinese, the text of Zhuangzi establishes various forms of expression. The monologue of the artist’s mother relies on sounds to lead the needs of each language towards the protagonists. The polyphonic lover in the single channel video Warm Spell awakens thousand desires in the black and white protagonist with her changing moods, calling up instincts and memories. On Thailand’s Koh Yao Yai, two independent subjects, as lovers and partners, balance the potential needs of others and judgments on alterity. Climate and habitation, race and experience, fill and deconstruct protagonists’ senses. 

The relationship between the self that is built within these characters, and the organized powers, which preexist, remain changeable. If the protagonists’ desires were to maintain the inconsistency of the self, not aligned with the expectations of the narrative, then their relationship with what surrounds them is kept with an unpredictable force. The gap produced by such force, as the empty land between two properties, is becoming time, and is given ways of fluctuating that belongs solely to herself. The requirement and productivity of sounds, senses and languages of a character could often be inaccessible, or the difference and transcendence felt would be flexible. The multiplicity of roles and their singularities, hope to be vocalised beyond vulnerable geographic imaginations that are identifiable. Hence the localised risk and comfort of the sites, become the medium of the materialised and haunting presence of the protagonists.

Shen Xin’s practice engages with film, video installation and performative events. Upholding commitment towards both risk and comfort in images presented, individuals and communities appear across different surfaces as units, and as shifting pronouns that exist in complex socio-political systems. To counter the potential of forming alternative power structures that can be oppressive, the protagonists in her works are empowered to narrate, speak and act out of their desires, maintaining the integrities to be inconsistent, discontinued and suspended. Uncompromisingly, her work fabricates the process of producing abstraction of inclusivity and foreignness, forming ways to be known to others that is reflexive of images’ representational agencies.

ABOUT SHEN XIN

Shen Xin (1990, Chengdu) lives and works in London and Amsterdam. Through films and video installations, as well as performative events, Shen’s practice examines and fabricates techniques and effects of how emotion, judgment, and ethic circulate through individual and collective subjects. By focusing on interpersonal complexity and political narratives, her films often aim to generate reflexiveness to dismantle dominant power structures.

Her recent solo presentations include Methods of Inhabiting, K11 Shanghai (2018), Sliced Units, Center for Chinese Contemporary Art, Manchester (2018), half-sung, half spoken, Serpentine Pavilion, London (2017), and At Home, Surplus Space, Wuhan, China (2016). Recent group shows include New Metallurgists, Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf (2018), Songs for Sabotage, the New Museum Triennial, New York (2018), and The New Normal, UCCA, Beijing (2017). Shen was awarded the BALTIC Artists’ Award in 2017, and she is currently an artist in residence at the Rijksakademie, Amsterdam.

ABOUT MADEIN GALLERY

MadeIn Gallery was founded in 2014, by MadeIn Company, a contemporary art creation company, focused on the production of creativity and devoted to the research of contemporary culture’s infinite possibilities. The gallery is dedicated to the promotion of talented international artists, holding high quality art events and exhibitions, with an accent on contemporary culture development and communication.

The gallery is in collaboration with the following artists: Chen Leng, Chen Ying, Ding Li, Elliot Dodd, He An, Li Hanwei, Liu Chengrui, Lu Boyu, Lu Pingyuan, Miao Ying, Mo Shaolong, Payne Zhu, Shang Liang, Shen Xin, UMA, Wang Sishun, Wang Xinyi, Xia Yunfei, Xu Dawei, XU ZHEN®, Yang Shen, Zhang Lian, Zheng Yuan, Zhu Yu.

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