Exhibition on the Table: Liu Yujia

Duration: 2018 May 17-June 17
Opening hour: Mon-Fri, 10:00-18:00
Venue: 3F CREATER SPACE, No.888 Huashan Road, Shanghai

Presenting:

Filming Two Portraits, 2016, 11’27”
Black Ocean, behind the scenes, 2016
The Progress of Ending, No.4, 2013, 1’57”
The Progress of Ending, No.5, 2013, 4’20”

About the artworks:

Black Ocean pictures the human landscape destroyed as well as in construction, and its fragility as well as indestructibility. The structure of storytelling of this film is inspired by the novel Invisible Cities (1972) of Italian writer Italo Calvino. Several chapters are interwoven with the debate and inquiry raised by Marco Polo and Kublai Khan about their imagined city and landscape in this film. It provides an entrance to allow the audience to get in, to wander, to get lost, and to find an exit or several ones somewhere at some time.

The Progress of Ending and its installation is a configuration of object, time, space and sound. In the light of theatre, lifeless tops automatically spin on a stage and interact with each other, which eventually leads to an end. However, the performance in theatre is presented according to the real time; actions and narrations begin when the curtain is up and never stop before the curtain is down. TVs and movies on the contrary employ zeit-collage and break up the original actions to attain a continuous and complete narration. This work attempts to present the action and narration of object on a stage in its non-stop and non-missing appearance with no cutting, no interrupting, meanwhile delaying the whole process. Though the real shooting time no more exists in delay, its continuity and completeness still persist in the reel time experienced during watching.The actions of tops in shooting make the confrontation of forces in a field explicit. With their different positions and varying relationships, the boundary and configuration of a field is thus defined. Invisible confrontation and competition between forces result the uncertainty of a field, and hence, its given set is eliminated by interactions.

For the occasion of online screening, we are very honored to have invited the artist Liu Yujia and curator Chao Jiaxing to our space to give a screening event with a panel talk. Please click here for more information about the event.