TANK 新展｜凯特·莱昂斯：“循环”
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油罐艺术中心欣然宣布呈现艺术家凯特·莱昂斯中国首个个展“循环”，以表达对这名深具才华的年轻艺术家的支持和赞赏。展览于2023年11月8日开幕，持续至12月24日。
“循环”
展期：2023年11月8日至12月24日
开幕：2023年11月8日
地址：油罐艺术中心项目空间
凯特·莱昂斯
《循环》，2023
布面油画
6幅画布，总尺寸198.1 x 1676.4 cm
图片致谢艺术家及柯芮斯画廊
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凯特·莱昂斯（Kat Lyons）在“循环”（CYCLES）中歌颂了将所有生命联系在一起的内在力量。在此次展出的新作中，莱昂斯带观者从黎明走到黄昏，探索亲缘、进化和时间等观念之间不断发展的联系。通过作品的六个画面，观者可体验生命与死亡的多个阶段，直面关于人类在生态世界中的位置问题。莱昂斯在其生动描绘的系列新作中表达出关于集体和联结的思考，探索共生及对抗关系如何将地球上的生灵连接为休戚与共的整体。
自人类文明诞生以来，哲学就不断质询着自然界不为任何外力所动的规律纲常。此种哲学探索催生了将万物分门别类的实践，以尝试理解人类身处的世界。生命在历史的长河中不断地揭示自身的复杂性，因此分类系统也需要不断修订、重塑自身。在歌颂不可制约的生命时，莱昂斯的绘画艺术也质询了人类对环境和疆域、时间和空间的划分标准的依赖。她在此展览中思索演变之奇妙：无论是短暂停留的迁徙物种，数十年前抵达栖息地的生灵，还是在我们脚下留存的、于沧海桑田前曾经繁盛一时的远古生物——都是莱昂斯在创作中思考的历史和现实。“引进”物种在什么时候能够被正式称作是“本土”物种？“入侵”物种在什么时候能够被称作是“驯化”物种？什么样的粒子或元素层面的交流激发着我们重新理解“起源”这一概念？新历史起点如何改变着上个世代的遗留，如何向我们传递关于过去的信息？通过提出这些问题，莱昂斯的画作提醒着我们：各个生命之间并无界限，而地球是起着联结及团结作用的伟大舞台。
莱昂斯的创作批判了阶级结构，倡导将生命视作是连续变化构成的星群。在架构“循环”的十二个主题形象之时，艺术家几乎完全不依赖参考图像，而是引用其脑海中庞大的图像线索库——其中包括记忆、再现形式和图像关联——以创造典型或让人惊异的动物及植物形象。通过在画作中集结的这些角色，莱昂斯借个人经验探索了艺术史中的动物象征体系。
“循环”中可见奇异的物种交融景象，强调了团结诸多生命体的伟大多元性内含的重要连接点。这些主体形象共享了些什么？莱昂斯在它们之间观察到了亲近性——而不是疏离感——指向那定义了我们的显性特征的基因结构。多种生物的显性特征是由同一种元素性、物质性力量所构造的，这也揭示了物种之间的美妙相似性：鼠耳与贝壳之间的相似性；鹿的自我保护姿态与螃蟹的防御钳爪之间的相似性；长耳野兔晶莹剔透耳朵与大甲虫精雕细琢翅膀之间的相似性。世间各类生物和我们同有以下珍贵特质：好奇心；共通的存在实体；私密的内心世界；生命同步性；以及决定了生命意义的代际谱系——这就是生命的奥义。
● 艺术家介绍
图片致谢艺术家及柯芮斯画廊
凯特·莱昂斯（1991年出生于美国肯塔基州路易斯维尔市）的艺术探索大地生命的复杂性，质询人类分类法及刻板理解形式的局限性。其创作旨在超越人类纪现实，呈现横跨多个不同存在维度的主体形象，挑战既有感知框架，并对具有主体性和伦理意义的自然世界发出邀请。莱昂斯感兴趣于在人类所统领的世界中生存的非人存在的生命经验，强调其物理性及象征性价值。通过检视非人生灵应用人类文明发展的方式，莱昂斯尝试厘清我们在当下及未来的诸多关系线索，包括生物医学研究、农业改造及技术探索等。她充满戏剧性的动植物绘画作品带有突出的奇异感和美感，暗示了这些现象并不是无法解决的经验，而是所有地球生命共享经验中无法割舍的一环。
莱昂斯于弗吉尼亚联邦大学获得艺术学士学位，曾在2019年参加斯科维根绘画雕塑学院 (Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture)项目，在2020年参加杉达肯绘画学院 (Shandaken Paint School)项目。近期举办的个展和群展项目包括：哥伦布美术馆，哥伦布（2023）；余德耀美术馆，上海（2023）；老佛爷基金会艺术中心（2023）；柯芮斯画廊， 伦敦（2023）；迈阿密当代艺术中心（2022）；柯芮斯画廊， 伦敦（2021）；亚洲艺术中心，台北（2021）。其作品已被迈阿密当代艺术中心、⻄雅图弗里尔美术馆、Longlati基金会以及上海余德耀美术馆等机构收藏。
In English:
TANK Shanghai is pleased to present “CYCLES”, Kat Lyons’s first solo exhibition in China, as an expression of support and appreciation for this talented young artist. The exhibition opens on November 8, 2023 and runs through December 24th.
“CYCLES”
Exhibition Duration: Nov 8, 2023 - Dec 24, 2023
Address: TANK Shanghai Project Space
Opening: Nov 8, 2023 12:00 - 20:00
Kat Lyons
CYCLES, 2023
Oil on canvas
6 canvases, each:198.1 x 1676.4 cm
Courtesy the artist and Pilar Corrias Gallery
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“CYCLES” celebrates the forces that unite all biological beings. In this presentation of new works, Lyons moves us from dawn to dusk to navigate the ever-unfolding entanglements of kinship, evolution and time. Across six canvases, the viewer passes through several phases of vitality and death, exploring relations within the greater forces that be. Lyons creates a series of vivid tableaux where connections regarding the collective arise; life on earth is presented as a collaborative endeavour defined by both symbiotic and antagonist relations.
The philosophical questions regarding the morality or indifference of the natural world have concerned human cultures since the dawn of our origin, resulting in allocation and category as an attempt to understand. As the complexity of life continues to reveal itself, such classifications necessitate continual revision and reconstruction. In their celebration of the ungovernability of life, Lyons’s paintings challenge human reliance on the demarcation of environments and territory to relate to place and time. Lyons here, considers the curiosities of change; the short visits of migratory species, those who arrived decades prior, and the ancient remains of those below us, who once thrived in vastly different conditions. When might a species go from ‘introduced’ to ‘native’? From ‘invasive’ to ‘habituated’? What particle and elemental exchanges pass between us that challenge understandings of ‘origin’? What remnants are altered by new beginnings and how might these beginnings tell us about the past? By inviting these questions, we are reminded that there are no relational boundaries between beings, and that earth is a great, unifying stage.
Working against hierarchical structures, Lyons’s works invite the viewer to think of all life on earth as a constellation of continuous change. While compiling the chosen twelve subjects of “CYCLES”, the artist relied upon little reference material, instead drawing upon her own internal archive of memories, representations and associations to conjure, in paint, both familiar and unexpected approximations of animals and vegetation. Lyons explores the symbolic depiction of animals throughout art history, which she juxtaposes with her personal experience.
Strange amalgamations and intersections between species begin to arise, highlighting forms that unify life’s great diversity. What do these subjects share? Finding more affinities than estrangements, Lyons points towards the genetic coding that defines our phenotypes, which are constructed of the same elemental and material forces, revealing, in turn, beautiful similarities between a rat's ear and a seashell, a deer’s self-protective posturing and the crab’s clawed defences, the vascular transparency of a jackrabbit’s ear with the delicate patterning of a large beetle's wing. The vitality of other life forms adjacent to our own – driven by a curiosity, shared corporeality, our secret interior lives, vital synchronicities, and generational lineages that define what it means to be alive.
● ABOUT THE ARTIST
Courtesy the artist and Pilar Corrias Gallery
Kat Lyons’ (b. 1991, Louisville, Kentucky) practice explores the complexities of earthly life to question the limitations of human categorisation and understanding. Her compositions aim to transcend anthropocentric realities by presenting her subjects across various planes of existence, challenging normative frameworks of perception and welcoming the natural world as a force of agential and moral significance. Lyons is interested in the experience of nonhuman beings living in a human-dominated world, recognising their service as both physical and symbolic capital. Lyons looks toward histories of nonhuman use for human advancement to reckon with our current and future relations, including: biomedical studies, agricultural modifications, and technological explorations. Her theatrical vignettes of nonhuman animals and vegetation are wrought with both an eeriness and beauty to imply these phenomena are not inextricable experiences - rather they are entwined in the common experience of all life on earth.
Lyons completed a BFA at Virginia Commonwealth University. She attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2019) and the Shandaken Paint School (2020). Recent solo and group shows include: Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus (2023); Yuz Museum, Shanghai (2023); Lafayette Anticipations, Paris (2023); Pilar Corrias, London (2023); ICA Miami (2022); Pilar Corrias, London (2021), and Asia Art Centre, Taipei (2021). Lyons’ work has recently been acquired by the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami; Frye Museum, Seattle; Longlati Foundation, Shanghai, and Yuz Museum, Shanghai, amongst others.
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