Wenjue @Shanghai Animation Film Studio Space, Shanghai

Supported by the Shanghai Film Group, the exhibition "PARACEZEGADI," which merges contemporary art with Eastern mythology using glaze materials as the foundation for innovative explorations in modern home systems, opened on August 3, 2024. This exhibition approaches the development of modernism and its reflective considerations, exploring the potential of folklore and local customs. Here, all things with classical forms or vivid spirits point to the unknown, representing various imagination of possibilities for future forms rather than referencing their own cultures. 

Within the Baroque shallow relief border disguised as fabric, pearls, shells, and acrylic, the devil's belly is exposed, the ribs wrap around the fruit, and he sits on a large red plastic chair. Mysterious blue hands protrude from the local rose printed fabric, while ladybugs symbolizing the seven sorrows and seven joys of the Virgin Mary contrast with birds looking forward to the branches at the bottom of the canvas. The Sichuan Opera masks disguised as nine suns are closely intertwined with cartoon monster images from the 1990s. Mythology, religion, and subcultures that have long faded in the tide of modernity are parallelly declared as the internal driving force after being cut and pieced together in the world of Wenjue. The various levels of red in the picture - deep red, bright red, earth red, purple red, and light red - together form a A sense of ceremony, as if the four heavenly gods of fortune, wealth, longevity, and happiness were carefully performing a masquerade ball through their incarnations, Always ready to open the doors of wonders for us.

2024.08.03 - 2024.08.20