“体外器官” 吕喆个展 | “Beyond Humans” Lu Zhe Solo Exhibition

“Beyond Humans” Lu Zhe Solo Exhibition

Date: 18 May – 13 June, 2019

Contemporary artist Lu Zhe’s new solo exhibition Beyond Humans focuses on normal objects around us on a daily life basis. Lu Zhe portrays and zooms in these daily objects by setting them up in a specific scene through black and white colour as documentary films. These inconspicuous objects or living beings act as leading roles on the stage of human life. Lu Zhe also attempts to enable the viewers to discover ‘mutual dialogues’ and ‘inter-reactions’ among different objects as image narrative beyond their connections with human activities.

In this exhibition, Lu Zhe pays a close attention to the tiny marks that are left by the transformation from human’s evolution and activities, he intends to use art as a function of service to restore the truth and objectiveness by eliminating emotions.

“体外器官” 吕喆个展

展期 : 2019年5月18日– 6月13日

青年艺术家吕喆在上海的第二次个展“体外器官”系列取材于日常生活中客观存在的物体，并通过艺术家自有的方式进行客观的记录和再次呈现。整个系列以黑灰色调为主，试图用黑白摄影的美感形式进行创作，从而向观者输出一种纪实性的观感体验。

艺术家所呈现的画面中通常出现两个或多个对象，并将其跻身于一个特定的环境中。让这些原本无关的某些主体促成了一种带有情节化、叙事化的存在状态和荒诞的氛围，进而引发出观者的种种联想：诸如人与人的一些关系；物与物之间的一些肖像式合影。

基于对德国后现代主义艺术家Joseph Beuys的艺术观点的认同，即“动物，牺牲了自己而使人得以成为人”，强调人类文明的成绩是建立在对其他生物改造的条件下生成的，自然中的万物可以被定义为是我们人类的体外器官，因此，吕喆将视焦集中于观察人类进化对万物改造的所留下的细微痕迹，并用艺术创作为一种服务功能去还原事物的客观与事实。