新闻 News｜倪灏罗马T293个展“Siege”

Siege, Installation View, T293, Rome, Photo by Roberto Apa

Ni Hao

Siege

September 12–October 24, 2019 

“Siege” is artist Ni Hao’s first solo exhibition at T293 in Rome, Italy. Focused on the control of movement as a way of disciplining living bodies, the exhibition presents three works based on three modern technologies designed to create barriers, overcome existing barriers, and surveil movement.

Ni Hao, Barrier, 2019, Razor wire, resin on clothes, Dimensions variable, Photo by Roberto Apa

The razor wire sculptures represent both the ingenuity and cruelty of the modern age. Considered a brutal invention, razor wire has directly impacted the way lands have been divided and bodies controlled. Originally created to restrict the movement of cattle, razor wire ended up being used to restrict humans, from the western expansion of America to battlefields during World War I to detention camps across the world. Concertina and barbed wire are now ubiquitous in border controls worldwide. For this show, Ni has created a series of weavings by using two kinds of wires and various textiles, reinterpreting the common scene of clothes trapped and tangled on razor wires at borders.

Siege, Installation View, T293, Rome, Photo by Roberto Apa

The “breaching charges” are inspired by a fictional tactical breaching explosive mat used in “Rainbow Six Siege,” an online shooter game that centers around raids by special forces. The game is based on real-life governmental anti-terrorism unit operations. Players are divided into a defense team that reinforces walls and sets up barricades and traps to hinder attackers, and an attack team that raids buildings by breaking down walls and disabling traps in their attempts to eliminate the opponent. 

Players use the “breaching charge” tool to blast through spaces. In Ni’s show, these tools become quilts that narrate movement-based violence, specifically, authorities’ abilities to “move through walls” in dense urban environments to control people.

Finally, broken and fragmented flat screen TVs are hung on the walls, each playing videos recorded by sports or dashboard cameras spinning during accidents, creating a kaleidoscopic effect. The compilations comprise clips sourced from YouTube as well as footage filmed by the artist. This installation is not only a reference to the rise of body-worn cameras and self-surveillance technologies, but also an accidental futurist painting in motion that celebrates both speed and accidents.

关于艺术家

倪灏，1989年出生于台湾新竹。2011年获得芝加哥艺术学院学士学位并于2014年获得罗德岛设计学院硕士学位，现工作生活于纽约。倪灏通过雕塑，影像等多种媒介疏离日常熟悉的物件并激发其背后的政治隐喻或私人记忆。倪灏也以此展开他在权利结构，消费主义，暴力美学等方面的探索。个展包括2019罗马T293个展“Siege”；2019年台北美术馆个展“伏击”；2018年光州市民大会堂光州双年展Pavilion计划“今天将发生”；2016年波多黎各Peligro Amarillo Gallery“模糊战略”及圣莫尼卡18街艺术中心的“光研究”。倪灏即将在2019年于上海Gallery Vacancy推出个展。

About the Artist

Ni Hao was born in 1989 in Hsin Chu City, Taiwan. He received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2011 and an MFA from Rhode Island School of Design in 2014. He now lives and works in New York and Hsin Chu. Ni Hao investigates power structure, consumerism, and violence aesthetics in his work by utilizing various mediums such as sculpture and video. His practice constantly provokes political metaphors or personal memories behind seemingly familiar objects. Ni Hao's work has been featured in exhibitions at Rockland Center for the Arts, West Nyack; Boston Center for the Arts, Boston; Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei; New Bedford Art Museum, New Bedford; and the Queens Museum, Queens. His recent exhibitions include Ambush at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum; Aujourd’hui aura lieu at the Gwangju Biennale Pavilion Project, Gwangju, 2018; Strategic Ambiguity at Peligro Amarillo Gallery, Puerto Rico, 2016-2017; and Light Studies at 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica, 2016. His solo exhibition Siege is currently on view at T293 Rome. In 2019, he will have an upcoming solo exhibition in Gallery Vacancy, Shanghai.

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