展览预告 | 万里不挑一 Vol.1 周力
万里不挑一
Vol.1 周力
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万一空间很荣幸邀请到艺术家周力作为第一期“万里不挑一”的主展人。在曾经的一次采访中，周力被问道希望别人称她是什么样的艺术家时，她笑言“就是一个勇敢做自己的艺术家吧，我只是希望达到我自己所想要的一种状态”。无疑回顾她的个人经历，我们发现艺术家对此有极其强烈的祈愿，并知行合一地不断实践着。
艺术家创作中
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周力常常用“窗”比喻观看世界的方式，往窗里看自己内心和往窗外看世界，此次，她为我们带来了不同角度的精彩作品，以及首次向公众亮相的个人收藏。以真实的日常生活为脉络，自然地再现她的“窗外世界”，如重现艺术家工作室中的惊人收藏作品墙——大大小小陈列着学生或自己欣赏的艺术家作品；符合审美融入生活而收藏的家具——从欧洲古典、明清中式到颇具摩登色彩的设计师椅子；还有凭眼缘收藏的赏石、佛像和器物….通过将这些藏品与作品的并置，我们与艺术家共同构建了一个无限贴近真实却也兼具创造性的展览：从而了解不仅作为艺术家的周力，还有身为“恋物者”、老师、母亲、女性以及一个普通人的她。驻足于窗外，再反观“窗内世界”，便能体会周力是如何掌控自己对待生活、艺术和生命的节奏，也让观者以此窥探创作中传递着的“温暖、希望、爱和波澜。”
周力工作室一隅
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自我塑像 Self Portrait
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“艺术之所以存在，就是为了使人恢复对生活的感觉，就是为了使人感受事物，使石头显出石头的质感。” 艺术除了表现它自身之外，可能并不表现任何东西，它有独立的生命。艺术家在创作的时候，也是一个独立的思考过程，是其作为个体生命的一种独特体验。生活中的一切都是艺术的原材料，这是你一天中的每一刻，当你敞开心扉，它们都是扩展你生命的内容。万中无一，是因为“万”里有无数个“一”，而“万”最后也构成“一”。
W.ONESPACE is delighted to announce a new unparalleled collection series “n.one in a million".
The essence selected from many things can be defined as “one in a million”. However, in addition to the masterpieces, there are still countless wonderful things that we might encounter, not only representing personal preferences, but also have been integrated into daily life in various forms. Vice versa, the personal collection somehow represents that person in some ways.
Collecting is a complex cultural phenomenon, in a sense it reflects economic behavior, artistic preference, cultural behavior and even the inheritance of social psychology. It further explores consumerism culture, art sponsorship and social lives. As a result, collecting as a behavior has also become a popular topic in many realms from history to economics. In the contemporary context, art and collection are always linked with lifestyles and often integrated into all aspects of collector’s with a welcoming attitude. These collections interweave and react with each other. They form a complete network of clues together, in order to reveal the owner’s aesthetic taste and attitude towards art and life in a full perspective way.
As a field that bridges the past and present of the complex art forms, W.ONESPACE provides a unique platform and invites art practitioners, jointly show the audiences an image containing unique personalities, aesthetic interests of multi-perspective.
The host of the project needs not be bounded by a “mono-identity”, but could freely express himself/herself during the entire project. Eliminating the curator, by this unique way, different hosts can handle every parts of the show and present a visual construction of “self- consciousness”.
Presented works and collections in the project have no priority, no distinction is made. All we attempt to achieve is trying to let audiences truly understand how the host's collections affect their works and how they relate to artist’s life. Through re-presenting and re-constructing the real living scene, we want to put aside the redundant interpretation of any art form, just offering an angle that could be perceived to see the story behind the works. A part of wall, a door frame, even a carpet could also be regarded as frame of the work. There is no boundary or limit. These collected behaviors present an unconscious choice, which is also a personal record of life, a witness to social and cultural changes and a view towards to the world, moreover, a kind of projection of the spiritual world.
W.ONESPACE is honored to invite artist Zhou Li as the first host of the unparalleled collection project. In a previous interview, Zhou Li was asked about what kind of artist she wanted others to think of her, she said with a smile, “I’m just trying to be an artist who is brave to be myself and achieve the state I want.” Undoubtedly, when we look back to her personal experience, we could find that the artist has a very strong wish for this goal and is constantly paying effort.
Zhou Li often uses the "window" as a metaphor for the way of viewing the world, looking inside of the “window” is herself and outside is the physical real world. In this project, she will bring wonderful works from different angles, as well as her personal collections that have not been unveiled to the public for the first time. Taking the real daily life as the context, she naturally rebuilds her "world outside the window", such as the amazing collection wall inside of the artist's studio – a display of works in different scales by her students or artists that she admires, furniture collections - from European antiques, Ming style furniture to modern designer chairs, as well as ornamental stones, Buddha statues and utensils. By juxtaposing these collections and works, we build a creative domain which is infinitely close to the artist’s real life and personal view. We invite the audience to view Zhou Li not only as an artist, but also as a “art fetish”, a teacher, a mother, a woman, and an ordinary person. Standing outside the window and looking back to “the world inside”, we are able to see how Zhou Li controls the rhythm of both her life and art practition. In hence, audiences could also explore the "warmth, hope, love and turbulence” that conveyed in her works.
"The reason why art exists is to restore people's sense of life, to make people feel things again, and to make stones show the texture just the way they are.” Art may not express anything other than itself, it has independent life. When an artist is creating a work, he or she is also experiencing an independent thinking process, that is a unique experience of his/her life as an individual. Everything in life can contribute to the raw materials of art, it is every moment of your day, and when you open up your mind, they will be the contents that expand your life. There is “no one” in a million, because there are countless "ones" in it, and a million ultimately constitutes ”one".
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周力
ZHOU LI
“万里不挑一”为万一空间推出的系列特别企划，每期将邀请不同角色的艺术从业人士，为观众带来自己的艺术作品以及横跨多学科的收藏。该项目旨在通过万一空间这一弥合古今和多元艺术形态的特殊平台，使主展人在展厅内还原一个艺术与生活的平衡点，以此让观者真情实感地理解收藏如何与生活融合。借由一个“真实发生”的场景，抛开对艺术种类的冗余界定，以一个能够亲身感知的角度，去体味艺术背后的故事与丰富的意识世界。
万一空间是由三位90后艺术从业者在深圳创立的艺术空间。其诞生于疫情席卷全球的2020年，在后疫情时代涌现对艺术与生命的全新思考。空间致力于消解当代与古代的边界，融合美学研究逻辑下的现当代与古代艺术，构建一个不同国家、时期和形式的艺术在同一语境下共容的场域。
W.ONE SPACE is an art gallery founded in Shenzhen by three Generation Y art practitioners. It was established in 2020 during the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. New perspectives on art and life have emerged in this post-pandemic era. W.ONE SPACE aims to melt the boundaries between present, future and the past by mixing contemporary and ancient art under the logic of aesthetic research, thus bringing together arts of different countries, different periods and different forms to interact and express in unity as ONE.