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Indepth Arts News:
"Cruel/Loving Bodies: Artists Grapple with Chinese Identity"
2004-06-15 until 2004-06-25
Duolun Museum of Modern Art
Shanghai, ,
CN China
The "Cruel/Loving Bodies" exhibition brings together art works in diverse
media--sculpture, installation, performance, photography, and video--that
reflect upon the interrelated issues of gender and body, particularly in the
context of China and Chinese diaspora. The exhibit participants live in
Mainland China, Hong Kong, Great Britain, and the United States. Working
from locations and backgrounds that challenge a dichotomous East/West
border, they grapple with the question of Chinese identity, but in local
contexts with different social and historical conditions. From this rich
layering of experience emerges a shared exploration of how personal
histories or historical legacies are inscribed on the gendered body.
The
collective work of these practitioners crossing borders represents social
and historical cruelty inflicted upon the body--in the form of physical
violence or social regimes of surveillance--but also counters cruelty with a
simultaneous focus on the body as a sensual site of love and subversive
possibility. They mix cruelty with cuteness, violence with humor, intrusion
with intimacy, and repressed histories with metaphors of healing.
Artists included in the exhibition are:
Bai Chongmin & Wu Weihe (Beijing, PRC)
Neil Conroy & Lesley Sanderson (Sheffield, UK)
He Chengyao (Beijing/Chongqing, PRC)
Anthony Leung Po Shan (Hong Kong)
susan pui san lok (London, UK)
Mayling To (London, UK)
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