Zhang Yibei: A Vase in Everything
Past exhibition
Overview
BANK is proud to present "A Vase in Everything", artist Zhang Yibei's first solo show with the gallery whereby she emphasizes the vault-like nature of our subterranean space through simple interventions and installation works.
By exerting rhythmic pressure on the surface of materials until they have been penetrated the artist has transformed each work into a vessel or vase. Perforating a substance is both an act of destruction through rupture, and construction through the introduction of an opening. The hole represents absence but also functions as a frame to an open space that generates new possibilities. All works in the show oscillate between being a vase and something else.
A car muffler covered with fire-resistant sand hides vast emotions; the divided oxygen tank seems to describe a dense relationship; the high-temperature forged glass fin heating tube desperately hides its alienation; and the reassembled septic tank has been unified in its disappearance. The artist navigates the darkness through drilled holes, wandering in unperceivable pleasure...
The cup is placed flat, and the cup becomes a vase. Holes were drilled in the rock, and the rock became a vase. Copper water is poured into the sprue, and the knee becomes a vase. A tangible object, a straight line, a painting, a relationship, a lover's game, a blocked vision, asituation at the pinnacle of despair... all have been cut with invisible holes and become vases. The artist invites the audience to become a flower arranger, transforming their own life experience into flowers, wandering among various tangible and intangible vases, making insertions into the inner flow.
By exerting rhythmic pressure on the surface of materials until they have been penetrated the artist has transformed each work into a vessel or vase. Perforating a substance is both an act of destruction through rupture, and construction through the introduction of an opening. The hole represents absence but also functions as a frame to an open space that generates new possibilities. All works in the show oscillate between being a vase and something else.
A car muffler covered with fire-resistant sand hides vast emotions; the divided oxygen tank seems to describe a dense relationship; the high-temperature forged glass fin heating tube desperately hides its alienation; and the reassembled septic tank has been unified in its disappearance. The artist navigates the darkness through drilled holes, wandering in unperceivable pleasure...
The cup is placed flat, and the cup becomes a vase. Holes were drilled in the rock, and the rock became a vase. Copper water is poured into the sprue, and the knee becomes a vase. A tangible object, a straight line, a painting, a relationship, a lover's game, a blocked vision, asituation at the pinnacle of despair... all have been cut with invisible holes and become vases. The artist invites the audience to become a flower arranger, transforming their own life experience into flowers, wandering among various tangible and intangible vases, making insertions into the inner flow.
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