BANK is honored to announce that Artist Patty Chang participated in the exhibition An Archaeology of Feminine Times: Forget Sorrow Grass held at Guangdong Times Museum, from September 14th to November 17th.
“Forget Sorrow Grass” is one of the most common roadside plants, but can also be an online profile name of a woman, one that we can find in our everyday lives. To name oneself “Forget Sorrow Grass” implies a conflict solution that is common among femmes, which is to rely on individual agency to process and ultimately forget the pain inflicted onto them.
“Forget Sorrow Grass” points inward, and this orientation is no accident. The habit of swallowing takes shape gradually in an expanded period of time. By “decompressing home” in the dimension of “feminine time”, the exhibition reviews and rewrites an informal history of the orientation and constructions. As compared to a linear timeline, which is goal and progress oriented, feminine time is a sensual dimension extracted from linear history. Within feminine time lies economically unquantifiable housework, undercurrents of emotions bound with intimate relations, as well as personal anecdotes that are being ignored in formal historical writing. The exhibition aims to further investigate the question that if such feminine time is relative, what is the power structure that is shaping the construction? In reality, how do we use the feminine timeline to reorganize experiences and materials that already exist, and process the emotions and entanglements within intimate relationships and our own devotions?
