Exhibition on the Table: Ellen Zweig

Duration: 2018 November 5 – December 5
Venue: 2F CREATER SPACE, No.888 Huashan Road, Shanghai

Presenting:

Inhabited By Foxes, Ellen Zweig

by Ellen Zweig

In old Chinese stories, a fox hanging out on the roof of your house will torment you by throwing roof tiles or bricks as you cross your courtyard. Foxes inhabit abandoned houses and create illusions of elegance and wealth. They eat the vermin that attack your rice storehouse, so you leave them be.

Here is a table filled with bricks and roof tiles. Looking down at embedded video monitors, you see places where a fox might live, old houses and forests. You look up to the opening of the well of heaven only to see a fox peering down.

“Humans and beasts are different species, but foxes are between humans and beasts. The dead and the living walk different roads, but foxes are between the dead and the living. Transcendents and monsters travel different paths, but foxes are between transcendents and monsters. Therefore one could say to meet a fox is strange; one could also say it is ordinary.” —Ji Yun

About a week before he died, Z’EV (American artist and musician) and I decided to create a collaborative work. He sent me a video of a fox very slowed down. I sent him some fox sounds. And that was all. This exhibition is dedicated to his memory and to the collaboration we never will make. You will hear his music and also hear Angela Zito and me playing one of his beautiful instruments.

Special thanks to

Michelle Charles
Quentin Chiappetta
Bruce Bo Ding
Toni Dove
Paul Han
Leslie Thornton
Zhang Hangya
Zhang Zhen
Angela Zito