"Fragments"
Contemporary Art Exhibition
Curator : Fang Lei
Participating Artists :
Anne Babe
Jiang Didi
Liu Bin
Liu Jianhua
Na Buqi
Xie Nanxing
Xie Qi
Wang Yiqiong
Yang Qian
Types of Works : Mixed Media Installations, Sculptures, Photography, Paintings
Exhibition Date : 15th April to 17th May, 2010
Opening Date : 14th April, 2010
Venue :
Contemporary by Angela Li
G/F, 90-92 Hollywood Road, Central, Hong Kong
Website : www.cbal.com.hk
Brought to Hong Kong by Beijing independent curator Fang Lei, Contemporary by
Angela Li presents yet another curated exhibition of the highest standard. "Fragments",
a group exhibition of 9 artists from China, explore the fragments of memories, ideas,
fears in our lives that affect our state of mind. Art pieces in this exhibition include the
"Container Series" from renowned Chinese sculptor Liu Jianhua, which has also
been selected for the 17th Biennale of Sydney (May 2010). Amongst the other artists
exhibiting is the famous Beijing based author Anne Babe, whose works are
consistently ranked in the national bestselling listings; she will be showing her latest
photography works.
Extracts from the curator's exhibition foreword:
"Fragments are natural, inevitable, but fragmentation is not inevitable. It is the result of
the accumulation of events. When things are too fragmented, they never attract much
attention in our lives, but when fragments appear in a sudden, explosive moment, they
become important events. Current events, natural disasters, human affairs, all of these
things appear in this manner, like they want to fragment man's will. Because they are so
trivial, they waste and scatter a lot of people's time and effort...
...fragment is not an individual; it cannot be discussed in parts. It is a perspective, a
perspective and a path that wants you to enter it. When a speck of dust gets in your
eyelids, you realise its power and the strange feeling it brings you. You instinctively push
it out of your eyelid. It is your enemy, an intruder. You cannot tolerate its presence in
your eye. When it returns to its own space, it is once again merely a speck of dust. We
are surrounded by dust, and it gets close to us in many ways, entering our bodies
through our mouths and noses and hidden places. We are afraid of our environments
because we are afraid of it. Fragments are a form of permeation, one that can penetrate
any opening. When we are afraid, it is like they have swallowed our entire bodies through our mouths and noses and hidden places. We are afraid of our environments
because we are afraid of it. Fragments are a form of permeation, one that can penetrate
any opening. When we are afraid, it is like they have swallowed our entire bodies...
... When we think about fragments, we often think about broken fragments with sharp
edges. Those broken fragments are like new lives, fresh, shimmering, a bit piercing.
Everyone has been a fragment like this, and then we all slowly pick up more fragments
and become specks. Then thousands of these specks gather together, pressing each
other, forming a collective will. And when these specks are spread out onto every street
in the city, the collective will becomes fragments. You become powerless, and can no
longer sing the chorus. You are still just a speck. What can a speck do, anyway?"
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