“苗妙：草丛” 即将开幕 | BOXES 驻地工作坊
盒子美术馆自2017年开馆以来，在关注中国及国际当代艺术同时，亦注重对美术馆与佛山顺德，在地性和本土性的联结，迄今，美术馆已成功举办了三十多期驻地工作坊项目，期间分别邀请了来自中国、法国、蒙古、爱尔兰、美国、日本等国家的艺术家前来驻地创作。美术馆鼓励具有独立创想和艺术研究建树的个人或艺术小组深入社区与城市参与项目，通过驻地期间的在地创作、交流和展示，进一步推进自身和所属区域的文化互动与学术交流，促进国内外艺术家、艺术机构、艺术活动之间的良性互动。
盒子美术馆第三十七期驻地工作坊邀请了艺术家苗妙进行驻地创作，展览2022年06月11日至07月11日向公众开放。
第三十七期
开幕时间：2022.06.11
Opening: 2022.06.11
主办单位：盒子美术馆
Organizer: Boxes Art Museum
统筹：广州美术学院油画系策划组
Coordinator: Oil Painting Department Curatorial Group of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts
项目总监：周力
Project Director: Zhou Li
工作团队：郭燕 邓子军 袁泽强 邓芷婷 陈思佳 曾芸 林昀 石嘉琦
Work Team：Guo Yan, Deng Zijun, Yuan Zeqiang, Deng Zhiting, Chen Sijia, Zeng Yun, Lin Yun, Shi Jiaqi
平面设计：林婉婷
Graphic Design：Lin Wanting
展览时间：每周二至周五10:00-18:00 周六，周日10:00-20:00
Exhibition time: Tuesday to Friday 10:00-18:00 Saturday,Sunday 10:00-20:00
地址：盒子美术馆，佛山市顺德区顺峰山公园（南门）
Address:Boxes Art Museum, Shunfeng Mountain Park（South Gate）, Shunde District, Foshan City.
The series of "Grass" is a residency project undertaken by Miao Miao during her residency at Boxes Art Museum. She stitched a collection of Cantonese profanity (homophones) and the lines of varying lengths and colors made into irregular images which was thread onto papers, then exhibited the backs. These lines with different colors and lengths result from the logic action of the front side of the papers, that requires sewing out the readable text. And because the author sets up the sewing sequence differently, these short irregular lines are completely irregular in the image, showing an accidental and random form.
Audience in the exhibition hall will mostly regard them as abstract paintings, where they have distinctly decorative character, and will be identified and critic in this standard. Artist Miao Miao haven’t followed her usual painting grammar in this time, however, the long and short lines, the formal proportions and the color language that present in the images make it possible for the series of "Grass" to become paintings. Although such abstract pictorial languages are perfectly safe and slightly tired, they also help artist to conceal the issues she really wants to address and to get it past the censor.
The display of the papers on the wall with colored clothespins enhances the temporary sense of the work and maintains the characteristics of being dismantled and turned up at any time, leaving a gap for audience to watch. Artist expects that the audiences driven by curiosity, will discover the text on the other side of the work at any time unexpectedly. These profanities are not offensive, people seldom/always say it because of its violent properties. Saying profanity is often considered to be a common language behavior among men, and its appearance and use also have the clearest gender boundaries, widely existing in any culture and languages. Sewing, washing and drying clothes are often considered to be female tasks, the methods of weaving and sewing are also utilized by many female artists. These stereotypically gendered behaviors in life and creation, language and movement, are displayed in the form of paintings through the readable and unreadable features, which simultaneously exchanged rejection and attraction for us.
Miao Miao, majestic, long, garrouls, 2022, Mixed media on paper, 56×76cm
苗妙，《瘙痒的、清脆的、表里不一的》，2022，纸上综合，56×76cm
Miao Miao, itchy, ringing, inconsistent, 2022, Mixed media on paper, 56×76cm
苗妙，《白白胖胖的，吞吞吐吐的，酥酥的》，2022，纸上综合，56×76cm
Miao Miao, chubby, hesitate, crispy, 2022, Mixed media on paper, 56×76cm
- 创作过程 -
艺术家苗妙在顺德进行了为期15天的驻地创作，期间探访顺德特色村落、南国丝都博物馆等地深入了解顺德文化后，创作出一系列作品。
去鸡洲市场买线遇到“华南牌”缝纫机
开幕特别活动：更大的草丛
广州美术学院油画系
“颜色与色素”工作坊创作训练
限时2小时 无实物现场创作训练
参与者：广州美术学院工作坊课程的同学们
地点：佛山市顺德区顺德盒子美术馆
活动安排
6月11日
11:45
盒子美术馆前台集合
（已报名并签到的同学现场建沟通群）
12:00-14:00
现场创作（无需准备任何材料）
14:00-16:00
同学各自导览作品
16:00
苗妙驻地项目展览“草丛”开幕
苗妙
从事绘画创作及绘画材料研究工作，其作品围绕日常生活的内部与外部展开，痴迷迂回于颜色与形状，掺杂文学性并试图清晰的描述混乱。目前工作生活于多个城市的二维平面之间。
She is a painter and research on painting materials, her works revolve around the interior and exterior of daily life, obsessing over color and shape. Her painting concern literature and trying to clearly describe chaos. Currently, she works and lives in two dimensions in multiple cities.
近期展览/项目
月之边缘，日出的两种速度 中间美术馆 驻留/策展项目 中国 北京 2022
靡菲斯特的舞步 沪申画廊 群展 中国 上海 2021
迎春画展 站台中国 群展 中国 北京 2021
The Most Recent Exhibition
The Crescent and the Full or a Dichotomy of the Sunrise
Reside and curate, Inside-Out art museum, China, Beijing, (2022)
Spring Fever, Platform China, Beijing, China (2021)
Tangle of Revolution and Political Soul, Shanghai Gallery of Art (SGA), Shanghai, (2021)