林明弘 Michael Lin
丙烯，乳胶板，画布，木材 acrylic, emulsion, canvas, wood122x244cm/each (diptych 双联)和我们玩一个游戏吧 Come play a game with us 混凝土，陶瓷，假发，树脂，木材 concrete, ceramic, wig, plexi, wood Michael Lin & Heidi Voet : doublespeakTHE VAULT (Project Space)Busui Ajaw : Mother of the World 开幕式/Opening: 3月27日 27 March 15:00-18:00展览时间/Show Duration：27.03.2022 - 25.05.2022地点/Address: 上海市徐汇区安福路298弄2号楼底楼 Basement, No,2, Lane 298, An Fu Rd, Shanghai BANK 将于2022年3月下旬呈现艺术家林明弘(Michael Lin) 与比利时艺术家海蒂·芙欧特(Heidi Voet)双个展，此次展览呈现两位相知相爱相守的艺术家夫妇，近十年互为影响却又各自独立的艺术实践，二者皆表现对文化挪用、符号学、及丰富的社会参与型艺术的关注。
BANK is proud to present Michael Lin & Heidi Voet: doublespeak opening on 27 March. This presentation celebrates a decade of this artist couples’ working in tandem, yet independently, as well as Voet and Lin’s continued shared interest in cultural appropriation, semiotics and colorful social engagement.
无题 Untitled
2020
布面丙烯 Acrylic on canvas
75x150cm/each (triptych 三联)
林明弘(Michael Lin)的作品通过他标志性的文化符号和印花图案，将绘画与建筑连结在一起。在夏威夷衬衫上出现的，全球冲浪文化和波利尼西亚热带地区的图案被精心手绘在木板上。通过展现这些在世界流行的，却是来自日本印花图案的夏威夷式服装，体现了艺术家的兴趣所在——增加本就交融的文化的复杂性。林明弘在全世界范围内的重要美术馆及双年展展出，包括加拿大多伦多当代艺术博物馆（2020），墨西哥 Jumex 美术馆(2020)，台北市立美术馆(2019)，墨尔本维多利亚州国立美术馆(2017)，菲律宾马尼拉当代艺术与设计美术馆(2016)等等，他即将于今年5月在纽约呈现最新公共空间委任创作。Lin’s practice conflates painting with architecture often through his signature cultural semiotics and floral pattern motifs. Here the legacy of global surf culture and Polynesian tropics are examined in the form of Hawaiian shirt patterns which have been meticulously hand painted onto wooden panels. Lin’s interest is in complicating an already complex mixture of cultures, whereby this quintessential Hawaiian garment, popularized worldwide, is actually derived from Japanese prints.
Michael Lin’s works have been exhibited in major institutions and international Biennials around the world including The Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto（2020）and Jumex Museum, Mexico City(2020), Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei 2019, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne 2017, Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, Manila 2016 etc. His latest commissioned work will be present on May 2022 at a Museum , New York.👉 Swipe to see the details
太阳落下时，穿过商店、汽车、人群和城镇
Against the sun going down
over the shops and the cars
and the crowds and the town
混凝土, 颜料, 夜光涂料，乳胶漆 Concrete, pigment, glow in the dark, emulsion
可变尺寸 variable dimensions
林明弘(Michael Lin)的画作呼应了海蒂·芙欧特(Heidi Voet)最新的雕塑作品：《来和我们一起玩游戏吧...》。这些半身雕像来源于艺术家在网上寻找的被黑客入侵的个人数据。她对线上采购的原始、复古陶瓷花瓶进行再创作，同时将运动球灌满混凝土。受害者的发型则被精心制作成假发，并放置在运动球上。曾经空心的花瓶和运动球，现在成为了人体的替代品和人造文化的象征。看似不相关的对象被事实同质化，因为它们代表了真实事物。这些半身雕像被放置在多种颜色的小盒子里，物体的真实身份被遮蔽了，就像数据黑客一样。海蒂·芙欧特(Heidi Voet)充满联想性的作品提醒我们，在这个一切包括身份都成为在线商品的时代，文化已然被扭曲。海蒂·芙欧特（Heidi Voet）以幽默和俏皮的方式构建层叠的图像，揭示当今物质文化的属性，同时挑战了嵌入其中的固定权力系统。她近期个展包括台北 Project Fulfill 艺术空间(2020), 布鲁塞尔 Sint-Lukas 画廊(2018)，还参与过比利时当代艺术三年展 Beaufort (2021) 、香港六厂纺织文化艺术馆(2019) 、第11届上海双年展“何不再问?”(2016)等等。👉 Swipe to see the details
和我们玩一个游戏吧，无人可信， 想象着在大海里迷失，想象着你看见了我(yyttkaixin0)Come play a game with us, We have no one to trust, Imagine lost at sea, Imagine you see me (yyttkaixin0)混凝土，陶瓷，假发，亚克力，木材 concrete, ceramic, wig, plexi, wood盒子 Plexi box:60 × 50 ×50cm底座 Pedestal: 110 x 50 x 50cm
Lin’s paintings act to frame Voet’s newest body of sculptural works Come Play a Game With Us... .Here the artist has plied the web for hacked personal data that she then uses as a basis for sculptural bust portraits. Original, vintage, ceramic vases sourced online are recreated by the artistand then filled with sports balls that have been cast in concrete. The hair- styles of her data victims are then meticulously replicated in wigs and stacked atop the balls. The vase and balls, once empty of content, are now surrogates for the human body and at the same time cultural artifacts.The seemingly unrelated objects are homogenized by the fact that they are all proxies for the real thing. Placed in a multi-colored cubicle, the objects true identities are obscured much like the game of data hacking. Voet presents us with an associative reminder of how cultural artifacts are distorted in the age where everything, including identity is an online commodity.With a humorous and playful approach Heidi Voet builds layered images which expose the properties of today’s material culture, while challenging fixed systems of power embedded within. Heidi Voet had recent solo exhibitions in Project Fulfill Art Space Taipei (2020); Sint-Lukas gallery Brussels (2018) etc. She participated in group exhibitions as Beaufort21 Triennale (B, 2021); Unfolding: Fabric of our life, CHAT Center for Heritage, Art and Textile Hong Kong (HK, 2019); Why not ask again? 11th Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai (CN, 2016)
BANK 也很高兴地呈现我们全新的项目空间 金库（THE VAULT），我们将在这个空间展示具有全球视野的小型艺术实验。新项目空间由MORE Architecture / 超越工作室设计，该事务所设计了BANK 安福路空间最初的画廊空间。
BANK is pleased to present our newly formed project space, THE VAULT where we will incubate smaller format experiments in global visual culture. The new project space is designed in collaboration with MORE Architecture, the designers of BANK’s original gallery space on Anfu Road.
妈妈在寻找幼崽 Mom Hunting for Cubs🎨布苏伊·阿贾（Busui Ajaw）
金库（THE VAULT）将与大展同期呈现泰国艺术家布苏伊·阿贾（Busui Ajaw）在中国的首次个展。艺术家出生于缅甸的一个偏远山区，在军事入侵他们的土地后，她被迫与家人们一起逃离故乡。她的无题自画像不仅表达了她作为阿卡山地部落女性的经历和身份，也体现了她作为个体存在，拥抱喜悦与苦痛，生与死的二重性体验。艺术家从15岁开始绘画以来，发展出一种极富表现力的绘画语言，来传达物质与心理、可见与不可见。她的作品曾在新加坡双年展、清迈MAIAM博物馆、老挝Elevations、曼谷Artist Run和东京日动画廊展出，并将在曼谷双年展上展出。
We are excite to inaugurate THE VAULT with Chiangrai Thailand-based artist, Busui Ajaw’s first solo show in China, Mother of the World. Born in a remote mountainous region of Myanmar, the artist was forced to flee as a young child with her family after a military invasion of their land. Her Untitled self-portraits express her experiences and identity as an Ahka hilltribe woman, and as an individual who embraces dualities of pleasure and pain, joy and suffering, and life and death.Since she began drawing at age 15, she has developed an expressive painterly language to communicate both the seen and unseen as well as the material and the psychological. Ajaw’s work has been shown at the Singapore Biennial, MAIIAM Museum, Chiangmai; Elevations, Laos; Artist Run, Bangkok, nichido contemporary, Tokyo and will be featured in the upcoming Bangkok Biennial.