“Resculpting” “异·形” Wang Xuejun Solo Exhibition 王学军个展


“Resculpting” Wang Xujun Solo Exhibition

Exhibition Date: 17 March – 12 April, 2018

Following the first photography solo exhibition, artist Wang Xuejun turns his camera on the ordinary people, who are living and working in a modern metropolitan city like Shanghai. This solo exhibition Resculpting features Wang Xuejun’s two latest series: Folded City and 12 Chinese Zodiac Signs.

Artist uses his signature style of bold, vibrant and saturated colour with the unique sense of humour, aiming to reveal the tension between living space and human as well as the relation between human and society in today’s modern world.

In Wang Xuejun’s Folded City, human’s heads are missing, the remaining bodies are distorted and re-sculpted inside a very limited space. We can see the power of tension against the space, we can also feel the struggle and the compromise at the same time. This Folded City Series demonstrates the pressure and frustration of the housing issue that we are confronted with, due to the continuously rising high prices.

In Wang Xuejun’s 12 Chinese Zodiac Signs, artist combines human bodies with 12 Chinese Zodiac animals to symbolize the similarity between human and animals. Wang Xuejun considers we are “city animals’ sometimes, who are struggling, fighting, competing or comprising to find a chance to live our life in this competitive and cruel society by instinct. Wang Xuejun poses his question in this series: Will human face the same situation in the future as these 12 Zodiac animals have experienced and suffered with massive slaughter and harm to satisfy our desires and needs?

 

“异 · 形” 王学军个展

  展期 : 2018年3月17日– 4月12日

继2016年的首次摄影个展后,艺术家王学军再次将镜头对准了在上海这个日益繁华的大都市内工作与生活的人们与这座城市之间的空间和社会关系。此次的摄影个展“异·形”展现了艺术家用自己独特的视角,饱满强烈的色彩以及诙谐有趣的想象诠释了两个全新诞生的系列:《折叠空间》和《十二生肖》,并以此作为象征物来暗示现代人与城市之间所存在的一种紧张感。

同样以自身感知为出发点,艺术家在《折叠空间》系列里省略了人体的头部位置,只留下了躯干和四肢,将其进行重叠、扭曲,用变形的身体与有压抑感的空间拼凑在同一画面内,使两者产生强烈的对比张力来对抗城市居住空间的狭小与局促。飞速上涨的房价导致可真正属于个人的空间也越来越少,人们需要用各种方式来应对这种局促与压抑,最终让焦虑和迷茫成为常态。

在王学军的“十二生肖系列”中,艺术家通过生肖中的12种动物所受到的来自于人类不同程度的威胁与伤害,反射出了作为“城市动物”的现代人在现实生活中所面临的相同遭遇和现状。艺术家认为人和动物有很相似的一面,都依靠自己的本能在竞争激烈的残酷社会生活中寻求生存和机遇,12生肖中动物的现状是否暗示了人类的未来走向呢?