展览｜万物生 Everything is Everything
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万物生 ｜ 陈夏羊毛毡作品展
Everything is Everything
Wool Felt Art Work by Chen Xia
艺术家 | 陈夏
Artist | Chen Xia
策展人 | 舒羽
Curator | Shuyu
4/7（周五） 15:00 ｜ 4月7日——4月27日
北京东城区沙滩北街嵩祝院23号东景缘
Temple, No.23 Shatanbeijie Songzhuyuan, Beijing
陈夏是在这喧闹的世间里少有的沉默。
她毕业于中央圣马丁艺术学院，学习服装设计，毕业后从事服装设计，之后做了自己的工作室。我和陈夏相识是十年前，在贵州乡村，当时她刚辞职不久，去探寻当地手工艺和植物染色。在相识10年里，她从未正式销售过什么，也没有做过展览，只是不停的研究和创作，“面料”就像陈夏生活中的路，亦像是一个黑洞，无边无际，吸引着她“不假思索”的投入。
为什么说是不假思索，连她自己也觉得自己的创作行为比较接近于傻子，只是一股脑去做，并没有想好是为什么或者下一步会是什么。就是跟着感觉一直做。
生活中的惯性往往会被“无常”打散，就像突如其来的疫情，伴随而来的自我怀疑、审视恰恰是一份宝贵的生机。如果没有这片刻的怀疑，可能也就不会有这次的展览。我想这对于艺术家或是我们都是一个有意思的“窗口期”，可以借机安全地行驶过创作的黑洞，去一窥其中蕴藏的“万物生”———那令人惊叹的充满变化的奇妙宇宙。
陈夏曾一直希望能找到一种古老的面料，而羊毛毡正是一种古老悠久的织物，它具有非编织性，其制作方法在古罗马时代就已被流传。羊毛毡是一种绵力聚合，柔中带刚的造型感且兼具保暖性、防水性、抗燃性等特点。为了达到她理想中的感觉，她还自己动手制作压制毛毡的器械。
此次展览是陈夏在疫情期间创作的系列作品，由13 + 7 + 1构成共21件作品。每一件作品都有万物蕴藏其中，在每个人心中也定是生出不同的面相。心生万物，万物心生。邀请大家去展览现场观看，去触摸，去连接，去探寻蕴藏的万事万物。
文｜舒羽
Foreword
Chen Xia is the silence seldom found in this noisy world. Graduating from St. Martin's College of Art where she studied fashion design, she subsequently founded her own design studio to continue her work.
Chen Xia and I got to know each other ten years ago in rural Guizhou, where she arrived to explore local handicrafts and plant dyeing after quitting her job. During the ten years since, she has been ceaselessly researching and creating, neither selling any of her work formally nor exhibiting them to the public.
"Fabric" runs through Chen Xia's life like a road. It is also seemingly a black hole, attracting her "unthinking" devotion without limit. Why "unthinking"? Even Chen Xia herself feels that this kind of creative behavior is approaching foolishness, simply go all-in, no idea who it is for or what comes next. That is, just do.
The life we've grown accustomed to is often broken up by "uncertainty," just like the epidemic bestowed upon us by the new virus. Yet it is precisely the accompanying self-doubt and introspection from which a precious life-force emerges anew.
This exhibition might not have taken place without such a moment of doubt. I think this is an interesting "window of opportunity" for the artist, and for us, to safely travel through the black hole of creation and get a glimpse of the "Everything" hiding inside --- a fantastic universe brimming with change and wonder.
In wool felt, Chen Xia found the ancient fabric she had always hoped to work with. A non-woven material with production methods going back to the ancient Roman times, wool felt is a matted material with a soft yet rigid feel, with good heat retention, water resistance, and fire resistance.
This exhibition presents 21 works by Chen Xia made during the epidemic, using a machine she specially built for the purpose of realizing her ideal artistic impulses. Each and every piece holds all of everything hiding inside, and certainly a different appearance in the heart of every beholder.
We invite everyone to this exhibition to see, to touch, to connect, to explore EVERYTHING hidden inside.
—Shuyu
尺寸：直径约95cm
重量：1260g
成分：
lana bergschaf 山羊毛
marrone naturale 自然棕
lana maori 毛利羊毛
terra 土地
sabbia 沙子
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尺寸：直径约96cm
重量：1650g
成分:
lana bergschaf 山羊毛
grigio naturale 自然灰
lana maori 毛利羊毛
sabbia 沙子
bianco naturale 自然白
extra fine merino 极细美丽诺羊毛
Passion 热情
Sand 沙子
Sage 鼠尾草
70%merino30%tussan silk 70%美丽奴羊毛30%榨蚕丝
Ivy 常青藤
Rust 锈
Beaver 海狸
lana maori 毛利羊毛
Siena 锡耶纳
Sage 鼠尾草
Olive 橄榄
70%merino 30%tussan silk
70%美丽诺羊毛30%榨蚕丝
Saffron 藏红花
Rust 锈
Caipirinha 凯匹林纳
70%merino 30%tussan silk 70%美丽诺羊毛30%榨蚕丝
ivy 常青藤
leaf 叶子
caipirinha 凯匹林纳
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