Past
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Geng Yini, Marx Lafia & Ma Daha: DYSTOPIA AND ITS CONTENT(MENT)S – 3 Solo Projects
14 Dec 2013 - 16 Feb 2014 Shanghai In his seminal book, Civilization and its Discontents, Sigmund Freud enumerates what he sees as the fundamental tensions between civilization and the individual. The primary friction, he asserts, stems from the individual’s quest for instinctual freedom and civilization’s contrary demand for conformity. The proliferation and currency of information in today’s... Read more -
Paint(er)ly
27 Sep - 1 Dec 2013 Shanghai PAINT(erly) |ˈpeɪntəli| adj • of or appropriate to a painter; artistic: she has a painterly eye. • characterized by qualities of color, stroke, and texture rather than of line. This exhibition flushes out the notion of the “painterly”- that inherent and seductive quality of paintings that has not only helped... Read more -
LAOWAI, Allegorist - Antagonist
9 - 13 Jul 2013 Shanghai LAOWAI 老外 is a Chinese colloquial term for ‘foreigner’. For a culture that is overwhelmingly dominated by the Han Chinese ethnicity, laowai simply denotes those who are not Chinese, and is often employed by Chinese living overseas when speaking about locals. All of the works presented in this exhibition have... Read more
