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你和我，保持凝视

展期：2023年02月17日-2023年05月28日

艺术家：aaajiao、Carsten Nicolai、Darren Almond、*LLND、Oreet Ashery、Tobias Rehberger、Lee Bul、Lee Yongbaek、Markus Lüpertz、胡昀、李燎、厉槟源、林科、林天苗、刘韡、陆垒、施勇、童文敏、杨诘苍、叶凌瀚、于吉、张培力、周文斗、周啸虎

策展人：徐天仪
地址：昊美术馆（上海）一楼，上海市浦东新区祖冲之路2277弄1号

主办：昊美术馆

*Please scroll down for English version.

昊美术馆荣幸地宣布，将于2023年2月17日呈现展览“你和我，保持凝视”。

“

我的世纪，我的野兽，谁能

看进你的眼

并用他自己的血，弥合

两个世纪的脊骨？

”

曼德尔施塔姆（Osip Mandelstam，1891--1938）在20世纪之初写下这首《世纪》（节选，1923年），表达了对这个世纪的憧憬与希望，同时也呈现了“诗人与时代”的冲突。1924年，他又在另一首诗中写道：“不，我不是任何人的同时代人”。

《世纪》这首诗此后曾作为引文出现在阿甘本的《何为同时代?》和巴迪欧的《世纪》中。在《何为同时代？》中，阿甘本借此表达“同时代的人是紧紧保持对自己时代的凝视以感知时代的光芒及其黑暗（更多地是黑暗而非光芒）的人。一切时代，对那些对同时代性有所经验的人来说，都是晦暗的。”而巴迪欧在20世纪末引用这首20世纪初所写的诗，则是认为，曼德尔施塔曼在诗中已经指出，“野兽”作为新生的、脆弱易碎的存在，在世纪之初注定是昙花一现。巴迪欧敲打的正是这根“脊骨”。

众所众知，20世纪是分裂的世纪，而试图了解这种“分裂”的方式，不只是要知道在这个世纪所发生的事情，更重要的是这个世纪的人在想什么。不去追问这个世纪的人在想什么，仅仅是将事件的发生进行标签，那么我们既看不到今天，也阻止不了事件的重蹈覆辙。同理，这个世纪也从开始就无关于“未来”。

你和我作为对同时代有所经验的人，是构成同时代性复杂时间脉络和多重时间的最小单位。因此，我们无法按照线性的时间来描述事件的性质。本次展览作为昊美术馆（上海）开馆五周年举办的特别展览，精选馆藏作品中包括Lee Bul、刘韡、张培力、林天苗、Carsten Nicolai、Markus Lüpertz在内的20多位国内外艺术家的30余件装置和影像作品。和以往以线性时间为脉络，对馆藏作品进行标签的方式不同，本次展览以“同时代的人是紧紧保持对自己时代的凝视”为线索，以“你和我”为名，在展厅中，“你和我”即与空间对话的直接核心，填补了主体与场景的缺席；对世纪悲剧的发生做出反思，于当代事件和过去参考之间取得联系；从社会学的角度定义时间，将“当下”作为过去与未来的划分点；从社会装置出发，从文化的层面瓦解和反转语言；再认识物质肉体之外的文化表征，对抗碎片化的数字世界；并在数字世界中，转变为无法注销的有机生命形式。

然而，不类同于时代，不按照时间性行动，以时间的创造性重组方式来构建非线性历史的尝试本身也陷入了现代历史观中。作品与作品之间的潜在叙事，不过是依赖外界给予的信息作出的判断。你和我仍需保持凝视，以感知时代的光芒及其黑暗。

展览将持续至2023年5月28日。

You as Me，Hold the Gaze

Duration：Feb. 17, 2023 – May 28, 2023 

Artist：aaajiao, Carsten Nicolai, Darren Almond, *LLND, Oreet Ashery, Hu Yun, Tobias，Tobias Rehberger, Li Liao, Lee Bul, Lee Yongbaek，Li Binyuan, Lin Ke, Lin Tianmian, Liu Wei, Lu Lei, Markus Lüpertz，Shi Yong, Tong Wenmin, Yang Jiechang, Ye Linghan, Yu Ji, Zhang Peili, Zhou Wendou, Zhou Xiaohu

Curator：Xu Tianyi

Venue：F1, HOW Art Museum (Shanghai), #2277 Zuchongzhi Rd., Pudong, Shanghai

Organizer：HOW Art Museum

HOW Art Museum is pleased to announce that the exhibition You as Me，Hold the Gaze will be on view from February 17th , 2023.

“

My age, my beast, who will ever

Look into your eyes.

And with his own blood glue together

The backbones of two centuries?

”

Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938) wrote down the poem The Age (1923) at the beginning of the 20th century. While expressing his visions and hopes for the age, it also shed light on the conflicts between “poet and his time”. In another poem he wrote later, it read: “No, I am no one's contemporary”. (1924)

The Age as quoted in Giorgio Agamben’s What Is the Contemporary? and Alain Badiou’s The Century . In What Is the Contemporary?, Agamben explained “The contemporary is he who firmly holds his gaze on his own time so as to perceive not its light, but rather its darkness. All eras, for those who experience contemporariness, are obscure.” Badiou, when quoting the poem at the end of the 20th century, pointed out that Mandelstam’s “beast” as a newborn and fragile presence was doomed to be transient. What Badiou was trying to break was exactly this “backbone”.

It is widely acknowledged that the 20th century was a century of division. And to gain insights into such “division” takes not only knowledge of what happened in this century, but also of what the people of this century were thinking. If we merely label things that happened without probing into what the people of the century were thinking, we can neither get to truly know the present nor prevent things from repeating themselves. In this same logic, this century would have nothing to with the “future” since its very beginning.

You and I as people of some experience of the contemporary are the minimum unit to constitute the complex and multi-layered veins of time of contemporaneity. Hence we shall not follow linear time to describe the nature of things. The exhibition on view, as celebration of the fifth anniversary of the HOW Art Museum (Shanghai), features 37 installations and videos by 24 artists both at home and from abroad including Lee Bul, Liu Wei, Zhang Peili, Tobias Rehberger, Lin Tianmiao and Carsten Nicolai，Markus Lüpertz. Different from the usual curatorial approach that follows a linear timeline to present the works within museum collection, the exhibition follows the principle of “contemporary is he who firmly holds his gaze on his own time”. Under the title “You as Me”, “you” and “I” are the core of the dialogue with the space, to fill up the absence of subject and scene, reflect upon the tragedies of the century, build connections between contemporary events and past reference, define time from a sociological perspective, treat the “contemporary” as a dividing point between the past and the future, disrupt and reverse language on the cultural level through social installation, rethink of the cultural representations beyond the physical body to confront the fragmented digital world, and morph into an organic life form that cannot be written off in this digital world.

However, the attempt to construct non-linear histories through creative reassemblages of time is in itself trapped in the modern view of history. The underlying narratives among different works are merely judgements based on information fed to us from the outside. You and I need to firmly hold our gaze so as to perceive not its light, but rather its darkness.

The exhibition will run through May 28, 2023.