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郭锦泓：现在之书
Avita Guo: The Book of Current
策展人：杜帆
Curator: Duffy Du
2020.11.21, 4pm. – 2021.1.11
展览《现在之书》呈现了艺术家郭锦泓近年创作的一系列绘画和影像作品，其中绘画作品包含艺术家2016年于冰岛驻留创作以及自年初疫情爆发以来被困于海南后回京所积累的全新绘画和影像创作。
去年9月郭锦泓回到她少时的家乡青海展开为期两个月的艺术驻留，艺术家通过追寻老照片中破碎叙事对记忆进行追访，然而中产阶级士绅化的进程抹杀了原本计划进行田野调查的地点。由此，郭锦泓由诗性文本出发结合记忆本身的断裂发展出系列作品的叙事语言。本次展览作为郭锦泓三段式联画叙事中的一环，时间线聚焦到她所处的当下——在经历了近年的地缘政治、互联网迅速发展，以及突发疫情后的生活状况结合她个人经验所创作的一系列绘画和影像作品。
“日常生活”、“猛冬追忆缉补”、“内在帝国风景”等系列绘画为某种对现实生活风景的切片写照：被撕裂的伤口，变幻无穷的疑似粉色及蓝色山云，抽象如同被Photoshop所模糊的风景，这些都是艺术家基于现实景观体验而产生的抽象、科幻又带有暴力感的记录。有关“人物”系列绘画篇章即是艺术家对当今混乱社会下的人际关系与人们焦虑的社交关系所折射出的利维坦式阴影描绘。郭锦泓的影像作品惯于将她的个人经验和生活片段与田野调查结合后内化后再创作出来，本次将展出她全新创作的两件影像作品：从去年年底艺术家回海南过冬后，因突发疫情迫使她长时间居住在热带地区。远离工作环境使她在当下只能选择收集、拍摄素材以及写作，期间写作对于郭锦泓如某种自我救赎一般，随之出产的文字奠定了《海歌》的创作底色。影像作品《海歌》使用了艺术家一贯的多画面叠加方式创造出一系列如梦如幻般诗意叙事。画面以海南的海展开逐渐加入深海的鲸鱼叫声，一组组艺术家在疫情期间或收集或拍摄到的影像素材让整个视频呈现出超现实的梦境感。作品《孤独的人啊，誓言何处诉去》是艺术家针对影像作品的全新尝试，经由电脑写作录屏进入影片同时穿插生活碎片式的短片，郭锦泓以个人经验出发理解和参考更形而上本质性逻辑并让观者如同写作者一样沉浸其中。
The exhibition the Book of Current unveils a series of paintings and video works accomplished by the artist Avita Guo in recent years. The exhibited works include previous paintings executed in her Icelandic residency in 2016, new paintings and video works accumulated since she arrived in Beijing after being trapped in Hainan following the outbreak of the epidemic at the beginning of this year.
Guo returned to her hometown, Qinghai, for a two-month art residency in September last year. The artist came across the memory through the broken narratives hold in old photos. However, the course of middle-class gentrification had obliterated the site of the original plan for fieldwork. Thereout, Guo has developed the narrative language of the catena, which embarks on the poetic text cohering the fractures of the memory itself. As a link to Guo’s Triptych narrative methods, the timeline of this exhibition focuses on the present. She pieced together a series of paintings and video works from recent years' experience of geopolitics, the rapid development of the Internet, and her life circumstance after the pandemic outbreak.
The paintings Daily Life, 2020, The Last Memory of a Hardcore Winter, 2020, and Inner Empire Landscape, 2016 are section portrayals the real-life landscape. The torn wound, the endlessly changing, suspicious pink and blue mountains, clouds, abstracted like Photoshop-blurred landscape. These are the abstract, sci-fi, and violence-embedded records the artist carries along drew on the perception of the real spectacle. The chapter of figurative paintings is the Leviathanic shadow depiction, which echoes her interpersonal relationship and social anxiety of individuals in the current chaotic society. Guo’s video works are practically a synthesis and internalization of her personal experience, life fragments, and field investigations. The exhibition will present two video works she accomplished recently. Since the artist went to Hainan to spend the winter at the end of last year, a sudden epidemic had forced her to inhabit a tropical area for a long time. Being far removed from her accustomed work environment, she could only choose to collect, photograph material, and write. During this period, writing is somewhat a self-salvation for Guo, and the resulting text laid the foundation for the creation of A Song of the Sea, 2020. This video installation employs the artist's typical methodology of image juxtaposition to create a string of ethereal poetic narratives. The scene begins with the ocean of Hainan and gradually joins the whale vocalization from the deep sea. The image materials collected or captured by the artist during the epidemic affects the entire video in a surreal, dreamlike way. The work No Space for Loner and Promise, 2020, is Guo's new attempt at video discipline. The video starts through computer typing, and screen recording meanwhile intersperses with short films that look ostensively like life fragments. Guo departed from personal experience to comprehend and refer to the more essentially metaphysical ideology, furthermore enable the viewers to immerse in the screening like a writer.
关于艺术家
郭锦泓，生于藏区，长于青海和俄罗斯。2011年毕业于俄罗斯皇家列宾美术学院，获油画学士学位；2012年获伦敦艺术大学优秀奖学金，2015年毕业于伦敦艺术大学圣马丁艺术与设计学院，获纯艺术硕士学位；2017年肄业于伦敦大学人类学院，就读于“物质与影像文化”学院。2014-2016组织与协办HYSTERIA杂志，并同行为艺术家BJORK GRUE LIDIN成立White Torture行为艺术研究小组，活跃于东伦敦诸如Dalston Super Store/Vogue Fabrics等地下俱乐部。2017年开始回国进行一系列个人实验项目。她目前的艺术创作是结合写作，关注个人内化于现实环境中的崩塌、政治立场的变革和个人如何于消散的现代性中自持、文学性与诗性在内心与外界的裂缝中的变化，同时她于2019年开始重拾绘画，并试图探索绘画与她影像实验之中的关系。
关于策展人
杜帆，出生于湖北武汉，目前工作生活于北京。2018年起至今，就职于尤伦斯当代艺术中心展览部，2019年入围北京OCAT研究中心“研究型展览计划”终选名单。她关注诗性意识流文本及泛民族志影像如何作为方法论应用于当代艺术叙事，注重与艺术家单对单的深入梳理个人叙事及线性时间中的彼此共鸣。2015-2018年，曾就职于马达思班建筑设计事务所和北京德萨画廊。
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开放时间：周二至周日10:00-18:00（周一闭馆）
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