展览预告 | 程婷婷《乳香》

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程婷婷：乳香Cheng Tingting: Frankincense
展期 / Duration: 2020.08.29 - 09.29
开幕 / Opening: 2020.08.29, 18:00 - 22:00地址 / Address: 中国上海市愚园路1088弄愚园公共市集202室Room 202, Yuyuan Public Market, Lane 1088, Yuyuan Rd, Shanghai, China

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关于展览 / About the Exhibition：

我们很荣幸地宣布于2020年8月29日至9月29日呈现艺术家程婷婷的个展“乳香”。

公元11世纪，随着“海上丝绸之路”（又称之为“海上乳香之路”）的建立，阿曼每年向中国出口数十吨以至上百吨乳香。北宋初年，泉州陈洪进遣使于乾德元年（963年）十二月，“贡白金千两，乳香、茶药皆万计。”这种与金银并置的“无用之物”诱发了她对于权利、情欲、宗教的幻想与神思，并以此作为新展创作的发端。

从乳香树皮上割开伤口，随后乳状汁液流出，接触空气后变硬。选择其中成色完整、纯净的黄色微红半透明凝块，最终凝练成为乳香。自公元三、四世纪绵延至今的制采方式，从未产生过任何变化。这种由植物产出的香味树脂，经历过地域、文明的漫长旅途，从东西方宗教场合蔓延至后工业化时代的各个行业，被提炼为精油、饮品供以人类使用。程婷婷关注到这种香料源流传移的细微变化，提纯后汲古，与当代美学交缠的雕塑体兼揉，采摘塑形手段的纯粹与真实。她将通过复杂的雕塑结构，唤醒观者对形态的重新感知。

We are pleased to announce that the artist Cheng Tingting's solo exhibition "Frankincense" will be presented from August 29th to September 29th, 2020.

In the 11th century AD, with the establishment of the "Maritime Silk Road" (also known as the "Maritime Frankincense Road"), Oman exported dozens to hundreds of tons of frankincense to China every year. In the early Northern Song Dynasty, Quanzhou Chen Hongjin sent an envoy in December of the first year of Qiande (963), "giving thousands of taels of gold, ten thousand teals of frankincense, tea, and medicine for tribute." This "useless thing" juxtaposed with gold and silver induced her fantasies and myths about power, lust, and religion, and was taken as the beginning of the creation of the new exhibition.

Cutting from the bark of the Boswellia, and then the milky juice flows out from the wound and hardens when exposed to air. People choose the yellowish with little reddish translucent clot and full and pure color, and finally, condense it into frankincense. Since the third and fourth centuries AD, the method of production has never changed. This kind of plant-produced fragrance resin has gone through a long journey of region and civilization, spreading from Eastern and Western religious occasions to various industries in the post-industrial era, and is refined into essential oils and beverages for human use. Cheng Tingting pays attention to the subtle changes in the spread of this spice source and absorbs its essence along with the process of purification, combining it with the idea of sculpture entangled with contemporary aesthetics, taking the purity and reality of the "shaping" methods. Through the complex sculpture structure, she awakens the viewer's re-perception of form.

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关于艺术家 / About the Artist：

程婷婷，1993年出生，目前工作与生活于武汉。她探索象形传递的意识形态，讨论其在时间迁移下不断在渐变的解说。作品从基于特定地域文化背景的前提出发，归于对异地文化传承表达的对比。她的作品在文明的失落的阴影轮廓下，进行形式与材质的重组表述，而叙述方式常常是关乎于媚俗的、幻想的、创伤性的。这是她当下身处环境，导致的研究现象。

最近的个展有：《忧郁》，（今格空间，北京，2017）；《ART021非营利项目》，（剩余空间，上海，2017.11.9-12） ; 《低烧》，（喻家山北路，RS_PROJECTS，武汉，2017）。近期项目：《从展览的历史到展览的未来，Biljana Ciric的策展实践》，（时代美术馆，广州，2019）；《日常沟通》，（望远镜艺术家实验室，北京，2019）；《清流计划—循环》，（798儿童美术馆，北京，2019）；《好景不常在》，（光复路235号，上海，2016 ）

Cheng Tingting was born in 1993 and currently lives and works in Wuhan. She explores the ideology conveyed by pictograms and discusses its interpretation methods that are continually changing over time. The works start from the premise based on a specific civilization background and end with comparing the results of the inheritance of civilizations in other places. Under the shadow of the loss of civilization, she reorganizes the expression of form and material, and her narration is often kitsch, fantasy, and traumatic: these are what she experienced in the environment and thus influenced her work.

Solo exhibition: <GLOOM>, (Ginkgo Space, Beijing, 2017);  <ART021 Non-profit project remaining space >,  (Surplus Space, Shanghai, 2017.11.9-12); <Low Fever>, (Yujiashan North Road, RS_PROJECTS, Wuhan, 2017). Recent Projects: < "From the History of the Exhibition to the Future of the Exhibition", curatorial practice of Biljana Ciric>, (Times Museum, Guangzhou, 2019); <"Daily Communication”>, (Telescope Artist Lab, Beijing, 2019); <Qingliu Project-Recurrence>, ( 798 Children's Museum, Beijing, 2019);   <You won’t be young forever>, (No.35 Guangfu Road, Shanghai, 2016).

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