LINSEED | 展览预告：闲人游戏 Decadent Gaming
LINSEED即将呈现群展“闲人游戏”（Decadent Gaming），带来六位/组中国年轻新晋艺术家的新作，他们均长期生活于英国及欧洲文化背景之中，包括郭雅格、Jin+Fan（金巧儿、樊博）、李黑地、夏莎菲、肖语涵、余芷桐。展览将于2020年8⽉16⽇开幕，并持续⾄2020年9⽉20⽇。
历史学家约翰·赫伊津哈在其著作《游戏的人》中讨论了游戏作为一种始于人类发展早期文化现象的社会意义，他将游戏界定为一种自发的活动或消遣，遵循自愿接受但绝对具有约束力的规则——游戏自有其目的，而游戏的人具有明确异于“平常生活”的自我意识。游戏并非是严肃的对立面，却常常将一种严肃的角色代入和佯装。回溯过去的一个世纪，艺术创作的游戏规则在艺术家的探索中不断被突破及重塑，无论是极简主义艺术家在美术馆与画廊空间进行特定场域的（site-specific）装置创作，还是大地艺术对非艺术空间与“非定点”（non-site）的探索，在先锋艺术家尝试打破艺术与生活界限的进程中，一个逼真于现实生活的“替代现实”（alternative reality）被同时建立。
如今，在居家隔离中进行工作和娱乐成为了一种全球化的生活常态，人们在私人空间中度过的时间比以往更多。而身处展览所在的场域，艺术家们若有似无地在此建立新的规则，玩味地呼应着当下时空中与共的精神生活境况。其中，由金巧儿和樊博组成的艺术家组合Jin+Fan在重组现成品的同时，幽默地探讨对于居家空间的功能与主观感受；李黑地不加掩揄地透露食色之欲的本能，亦真亦幻地描绘浮生若梦的日常；而欲望在夏莎菲的水墨作品中与自然交织，甜蜜与野蛮的冲突显得荒诞又暧昧；郭雅格在对“刹那”的迷恋中，不断捕捉静止和移动变换之际无法被清晰定义、仿佛消散的瞬间；余芷桐的绘画发自怀旧与内省，在神秘与童趣的氛围中不断尝试跳脱固有的范式；日常生活的系统机制时常反映在肖语涵的创作之中，显露出不言而喻的诙谐。在生活规范与意识形态不断被打破和再定义之时，游戏和现实规则间的自由之地在相互角力与和解中也在不断被重塑，更迭。
郭雅格 Guo Yage（b. 1998）
轿子与空车 Litter and empty car，2019
板上油画 Oil on panel
51 x 41 cm
LINSEED is pleased to present a new group exhibition Decadent Gaming, featuring six emerging Europe-/UK-based Chinese artists/artists collective —— Guo Yage, artist duo Jin+Fan (Jin Qiaoer & Fan Bo), Li Hei Di, Xia Shafei, Xiao Yuhan, and Yuyu Zhitong. The exhibition will be on view from August 16 to September 20, 2020.
In Homo Ludens, historian John Huizinha discussed the social significance of play-element as one of the early cultural phenomena evolving along with human development. He described “play” as a spontaneous activity that is self-imposed and creates binding orders and rules. It is distinct from “ordinary” or “real” life. It is not the opposite of seriousness, but often, a serious pretending, disguise and camouflage.
Over the last century, the norms and rules in art have continuously been reshaped and played with artists’ exploration. Whether it is Minimalist artists’ site-specific exploration of the gallery space or Land Art’s expedition of the Sites & Non-site, as avant-garde artists continuously blend the boundaries between art and life, a hyperreal “alternative reality” has been simultaneously constructed.
Self-isolation and quarantine now have become the new norm of life globally, working and playing at home let people spend more time in their private space more than ever. As the artworks created by the six artists/artist collective from our exhibition seemingly ramble across the living space, their contemplations and distinct realities collectively echo our current time.
Artist duo Jin+Fan’s installation, reconstructed from readymade domestic artifacts, whimsically examines the function and subjectivity of domestic spaces. Li Hei Di’s works reveal a dreamlike world, marrying desire with the mundane. While lust is intertwined inherently in Xia Shafei’s ink paintings, the clash between sweetness and savagery is fierce, absurd, yet passionate. Guo Yage’s fascination with ephemerality gives rise to her constant capture of moments of instant. Derived from nostalgia and introspection, Yuyu Zhitong’s paintings continuously seek escape from stereotypes, embracing both childlike and mysterious tales. As retrospective influences being one of the impacts in Xiao Yuhan’s practice, his works playfully explore the mechanisms behind daily life.
In the time of ever-changing and recurrently-redefined lifestyle, the negotiated place of freedom among the rules of games and the reality is constantly being reauthorized with struggles and reconciliation.
金巧儿+樊博 Jin+Fan（b. 1996/1995）
我以为我和一个艺术家住在一起 I Thought I Was Living with An Artist，2019
行为，影像，装置 Performance, video, installation
尺寸可变 Dimensions variable
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