【展览预告】XIE3LLA：META-TATION

XIE3LLA: 

META-TATION

策展人：叶锦珂

curated by Jinke Ye

开幕 Opening: 2023.11.18 17:00

表演 Performance: 19:00-19:20

展期 Duration：2023.11.18—12.18

地点 Venue：狸瑞金卮 

浙江省杭州市上城区南宋御街保佑桥西弄8-½

VERRE LIQUIDE 

Baoyou Bridge West Lane 8-½, Southern Song Imperial Street, Shangcheng District, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province

XIE3LLA Albumcovers

Photograph lazerprint on aluminium

30 cm x 30 cm (X2)

Meta-tation源自于一个关于我们在21世纪幸福的问题。

很长一段时间里，我经常思考生命的意义是否在于能够与其他人建立联系并找到彼此的共鸣。通过与其他身体的互动来确认你的存在。然而，最近我意识到，作为人类的本身并不在“外部”，而在“内部”，首先需要心灵和身体之间的融合。

在内心实现融合后，寻求与他人的联系才会令人满足。

鼠标动物 Mouse Creatures

布面喷漆油画，⻢克笔

Spray paint, Oil on Canvas, acrylic marker

100 × 80 cm

2023

21世纪的生活在承认技术不可避免地影响的情况下才能被考虑。今天，我们在生活中的许多方面都依赖技术，从娱乐、约会、进食、锻炼到相互了解，参与在线生活是当今人类经验的重要组成部分。然而，尽管技术可以加快我们的联系速度并使其更容易访问，但长时间的使用似乎具有更负面的影响。特别是对于在线生活的性质：认识自己作为一个在线用户，拥有可自定义的个人资料，与其他仅通过用户名识别的用户互动，存在于这个精心选择的信息流、表情、图像、短片和故事的世界中。我认为，在你的思绪漫游到数字世界的远方的同时，仍然停留在自己的身体中的体验有可能会无意识地分离思绪和身体。

因此，我创造了术语“Meta-tation”：当被拉向远离大地的设备包围时，如何在自己内心找到融合？在周围一切都在呼喊你的注意力，却只提供肤浅的即时满足时，如何实现内心的平静？

Meta-tation是一种呼吁，要求我们在在线平台内将心灵和身体扎根。

-艺术家自述

“META-TATION”

Video channel onold television

25 minutes

Meta-tation stems from a question regarding our happiness in the 21st century.

For a long time I often thought the meaning of being alive is the ability to connect and find union between other human beings. The ability to confirm your existence though the experience of other bodies. It has recently occurred to me however, that the essence of being human lies not externally but internally, and first requires the union between mind and body.

The search for union between others is only satisfying if it is done when the union within yourself is achieved first.

New work

布面喷漆油画，⻢克笔

Spray paint, Oil on Canvas, acrylic marker

100 × 80 cm

2023

Life in the 21st century cannot be considered without recognising the inescapable impact of technology. Today we rely on technology for a multitude of aspect in our lives, from entertainment, dating, eating, exercising and getting to know each other, engaging our lives online is a big part of todays human experience. However as much as technology may make our connections faster and more accessible, prolonged use is revealing to have a more negative impact. This is especially true to the nature of being online: recognising yourself as an online user with a customisable profile, interacting with other users who are only identified by a username and existing within this carefully selected world of feeds, memes, images, reels and stories. I believe the physical experience of staying in your own body whilst your mind drifts far into the digital world has the ability to unconsciously detach mind and body.

Therefore I created the term ‘Meta-tation’: How to find union within yourself when surrounded by devices that pull you further away from the ground? How to achieve inner peace when everything around you screams for your attention - offering in return only the shallow comfort of instant gratification?

Meta-tation is a calling for grounding of our mind and body within online platforms.

ABOUT ARTIST:

XIE3LLA

3lla W4ng Ol55on（她/他/它）是一位中瑞混血的多领域艺术家。她的作品主题关于我们与互联网的关系日益增强和与地球的关系日益减弱进行讨论。这一主题以多学科形式探索，将表演与视频、以及绘画和摄影等2D对象相结合。

3LLA关心“互联网依赖”如何影响并塑造了当今的社会，研究互联网趋势作为我们集体潜意识的需求和欲望的反映。她创造了一些“互联网愈合”时刻，同时承载了逐渐在互联网时代崭露头角的逃避文化。她的作品主要在非传统场所或俱乐部空间与观众互动，拓宽了艺术体验的方式和地点。

Ella于2022年在海牙皇家艺术学院获得美术双学位，同时还在莱顿大学学习了艺术历史，目前是一名自由在线艺术家。Ella于1999年出生在瑞典，并在新加坡和上海长大。

3lla W4ng Ol55on (she/they/he/it) is a half Chinese half Swedish multidisciplinary artist. The topic of their works is based on the discuss of our increasing relationship to the internet and our decreasing relationship to the Earth. This is explored in a multidisciplinary form combining performance with video and 2D objects such as paintings and photography.

3LLA is concerned of how internet reliance is influencing and shaping our societies today, researching internet trends as a reflection of the needs and desires of our collective subconscious. XIE3LLA creates moments of 'internet healing' as well as embodying escapism culture that is growing more prominent to the internet age. Their works are mainly engaged with audiences in offsite or club spaces, pushing the boundaries of how and where art can be experienced.

Ella graduated with a double degree in Fine Arts from the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague and Art History from Leiden University in 2022 and is now living as a free lance artist online.

Ella was born in Sweden in 1999 and grew up in Singapore and Shanghai.

“狸瑞金卮”（VERRE LIQUIDE）位于杭州市中心南宋御街保佑桥西路（近凤凰寺），原址为金瑞兴酒家，彼时被称为“活酒之肆，無地無之”。作为马丁·戈雅生意继亚文化厂牌犁鼻器V33N0之后的全新机构，并任命叶锦珂（Janko Ye）为机构代表。在未来马丁·戈雅生意与狸瑞金卮将持续展开国际展览合作与艺术家独立项目。“狸瑞金卮” 发音LÍ Rùi Jīn Zhī，是一幕风景：

取酒家一字，举金杯，有狸猫，聚丰瑞，伴幻想共生，存后南宋风骨。狸瑞金卮所对应的“VERRE LIQUIDE”取自法语，以谐音取意镜片看世界，器皿如金卮，内储一种斑斓的神奇物体，一种非牛顿流体，兼具韧性、柔性与弹性，也代表了马丁·戈雅生意一如既往所持续跳脱现实和打破界限的愿景。

狸瑞金卮 (VERRE LIQUIDE) is located in the heart of Hangzhou, near Fenghuang Temple, on Baoyouqiao West Road of the Southern Song Imperial Street, it was previously the site of Jinruixing Restaurant, known as the "boisterous gathering place for spirited drinks, with no equal anywhere.” As the new institution under MARTIN GOYA BUSINESS following the multimedia label V33N0, and Janko Ye has been appointed as the representative of the institution. In the future, MARTIN GOYA BUSINESS and 狸瑞金卮 (VERRE LIQUIDE) will continue to engage in international exhibition collaborations and independent projects with artists.

The Chinese name of the space 狸瑞金卮 is pronounced as LÍ Rùi Jīn Zhī, deviates from the conventional naming strategy of art spaces. It is not a person’s name and lacks concreteness; instead, it paints a scene: Drawing from the name of the old restaurant, raising golden cups, there are cats, gathering prosperity and accompanying fantasies, preserving the spirit of the late Southern Song Dynasty.

VERRE LIQUIDE is a French name, with a play on sounds to signify viewing the world through a lens. The vessel resembles a golden cup, containing a marvellous and colourful substance, a non-Newtonian fluid that possesses resilience, flexibility, and elasticity. It also represents MARTIN GOYA BUSINESS’s continued vision of transcending reality and breaking boundaries.

马丁·戈雅生意(MARTIN GOYA BUSINESS)是诞生于后南宋王朝的神秘物种，聚集在黑夜的炫彩幻觉，群猫的藏身之所。

Martin Goya是一只黑猫，它的命名源于好莱坞电影《SPY》(2015)中FBI探员以宠物名字结合住址为自己杜撰假名的桥段。马丁·戈雅生意(MARTIN GOYA BUSINESS)创办于2017年，作为推动多元青年文化的先锋平台，脱离了固有的艺术体系模式，致力于推动和支持本土青年艺术家的多样性实践和探索。马戈生也与前卫观念、叛逆潮流紧密相连，专于以自身独特气质塑造极具引导性的超前视觉文化场景。自创办以来，马戈生俨然成为中国本土最与众不同的艺术机构/团体之一，于杭州，北京，上海，香港，巴黎，悉尼，纽约和其他各个国家与地区策划及参与超过上百场展览演出活动，合作超过400位艺术家/策展人/作家/设计师/音乐人/演员等创作者，在与美术馆，艺术机构，音乐厂牌等层面不断建立跨领域合作的同时，以杭州为起点缓缓生长。

MARTIN GOYA BUSINESS is a mysterious creature born in the Post-Southern Song Dynasty. It is the fantastic illusion of gathering in the dark, a hidden place for cats.MARTIN GOYA is a black cat. The name is derived from the scene in the Hollywood movie “SPY” (2015) that an FBI agent fabricated a pseudonym forhimself by combining the name of a pet with a home address.

MARTIN GOYA BUSINESS was founded by artist Cheng Ran in 2017, as a pioneering platform that advocates for alternative youth culture. Setting itself apart from existing art systems, it is committed to promoting and supporting the diverse practice and exploration of emerging local artists. Martin Goya Business closely aligns with today’s trends and avant-garde fashion, shaping and leading a new visual and cultural scene with its unique vibe.

MARTIN GOYA BUSINESS has become one of the most different Chinese local organisations/crew since established. MGB has curated over 80 events and exhibitions across the world including cities like Hangzhou, Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Paris, Sydney and New York. Collaborated with over 400 creators including artists, curators, writers, designers musicians and actors. By working collectively with not only art museums, and art agencies, but music labels and fashion media,MGB is growing slowly with Hangzhou as a starting point.