ARTIST 艺术家
EXHIBITION 展览
SUPPORT 支持
我建造了一个洞穴
2024.03.16-2024.04.09
The exhibition takes its title from Eva Haupt’s new work this year, I Built A Cave And I Choose You. The work is filled with enigmatic forms that seem on the verge of generating new transformations at any moment, evoking Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” — humanity’s enduring pursuit of the knowable world from within the depths of the inner self. In the process of this “turning of the soul,” art becomes both a creator of vision and a force of intellectual liberation. Perception expands outward through emotional experience, seeking another kind of reality within states of drift and entanglement. Art thus emerges as a means of exploring and extending perception itself.
The four artists in this group exhibition each demonstrate a keen ability to capture and reconstruct fragmentary images, weaving unconscious experience and fleeting moments together with conscious thought and action to construct distinctive spiritual caves that transcend rational meaning.
The works presented by Chen Wei span more than a decade, and the juxtaposition of older and newer pieces carries the continuation and evolution of the artist’s thoughts. She has long excelled at opening pathways to the inner self through subtle details, employing refined technique to create imagery imbued with mystery and poetic resonance. Through her brush, the world around her is transformed into symbols that are quiet, melancholic, yet charged with rebellious force, continually questioning the individual’s existence and sense of belonging.
Eva Haupt seeks a dynamic balance between imagination and image. The visible and invisible aspects of everyday experience are consciously activated, while compositions that transcend perspectival logic and liberated use of color merge into fairy-tale-like scenes, giving rise to entirely new experiential worlds. In her works, Wo Xinyu depicts personal memories entangled across time and space. She imbues her paintings with intense dramatic tension and surrealist associations, unfolding an exploration of the beauty within human nature through her meticulous treatment of light. Wu Zejian focuses on self-exploration and emotional expression, approaching his practice through an almost diaristic perspective that probes the emotional exchanges between people. His restrained palette, subtle brushwork, and delicate textures conceal layers of intertwined emotions, giving rise to an atmosphere that is gentle yet threadlike in its sense of estrangement. Within themes of intimacy, solitude, and desire, he searches for a tranquil and comforting spiritual realm.
Although the artists employ vastly different painterly textures, fantastical visual elements, and diverse techniques, their works collectively evoke a resonance between the individual and the external world within an atmosphere of concealed ambiguity and emotional intimacy. It is through this resonance that perception and expression are set into motion, familiar memories overturned, and irretrievable moments rendered with acute sensory precision. By activating subconscious responses within the viewer, the works convey a renewed and diffused world of images, ultimately awakening deeper forms of empathy and consolation.
展览名源自艺术家Eva Haupt今年的新作“I Built A Cave And I Choose You”，这件作品中充满未知的形态似乎随时可能催生出新的变化，指向着柏拉图的“洞穴之喻”（Allegory of the Cave）——人的内心深处对可知世界的探求。在“灵魂转向”的过程中，艺术既是视野的缔造者，也是思想的解放者。感知的发散延展于情绪经验之上，在介于游离与纠缠的状态中试图靠近另一种真实。
因此，艺术成为了一种探索和扩展感知的方式。此次群展中的四位艺术家敏锐的捕捉、重组片段式的图像，将无意识的经验和流动的时刻与有意识的思维和行动编织在一起，构建出超越逻辑意义的独特精神洞穴。陈蔚此次的展出作品有十余年的时间跨度，新旧作的并置承载了艺术家思绪的延伸，她一向善于从微妙的细节处打开连接内心的大门，运用精湛的技艺营造画面神秘且诗意的表达。周遭万物经她笔下皆被化为沉静忧郁却充满叛逆力量的符号，不断回问着个体的存在与归宿。Eva Haupt试图寻求想象与图像的动态平衡，所有日常经验里的可见与不可见都被有意识地激发，超越透视逻辑的构图和自由的色彩融入在童话般的画面中，新的体验世界由此展开。
沃欣雨在作品中描绘出时空错综的个人记忆，她赋予画面极强的戏剧性张力和超现实主义联想，在雕琢“光”的过程中展开对人性中美好的探索。吴泽坚注重自我探索和心性表达，他以日记化的视角介入，挖掘人与人的情感交流。画面色彩克制隐晦，笔触质感细腻，暗藏多重交织的情绪，诞生出一种柔和却如游丝般的疏离氛围，在亲密，孤独和欲望中探索宁静安逸的精神世界。
他们作品有着不同质地的笔触、天马行空的视觉元素和多元的技法，却共同引申出在隐秘暧昧的情感氛围下，个体与外部的共振。一切的感知和表达由此触发，熟悉的记忆被颠覆，作品以多重感官的精准度来展现难以重现的瞬间，调动观看者潜意识的反应，传递出崭新的、弥散式的图像世界，以此唤起更深层次的共鸣和慰藉。