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- Śūnyatā_Being at Liberty|Wu Meng-Chang, Wang Ya-Hui, Zhao Zhao
- 2022|09.03 - 11.19
- Opening 2022|09.03 4pm
- Lin & Lin Gallery
Lin & Lin Gallery is pleased to present the group exhibition Śūnyatā _Being at Liberty in September. Curator Shen Bo-Cheng invites visitors to see how artists Wang Ya-Hui, Wu Meng-Chang, and Zhao Zhao (in alphabetical order) experience the sublimation of enrichment and creativity in vacancy. The exhibition will show the unique Eastern aesthetic of contemporary Chinese artists from the perspective of vacancy, which is expressed and translated in the practice of contemporary plastic art.
Wang Ya-Hui is concerned with the relationship and way of thinking between human and the world in Eastern natural philosophy, and merges this thinking into contemporary life experiences. Her works are not only about creating or describing a landscape, but also about the dynamic experience of how a landscape is constructed. A Work for a Building Plot is a series of works in which flowers and twigs collected from the pre-construction site are used to do a flower bouquet as a memory for the future. The Leaf Holes series is a reflection on "how we observe nature" and a change in the perspective of viewing the environment.
Zhao Zhao uses a variety of media to transform realistic subjects and artistic forms, focusing on the relationship between individual consciousness and the social sphere in which he lives. In the global context, the combination of contemporary expression and traditional culture in his works is a metaphor for people's living conditions and their real state in today's society. The works of Buddha and Natural series convey a symbol that everything has its own spirit and bring out the artist's allegory which is more rigorous than poetry yet freer than most painting. The installation work Countless is composed of a large number of one-centimeter square cubes, which was cut from the remnants of ancient Chinese Buddha statues. The cubes are separated from each other and presented in the form of matrix, forming a kind of equality of format. From existence to nothingness, it transforms the traditional spiritual beliefs into contemporary beliefs.
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Curatorial Statement|Shen Bo-Cheng, Śūnyatā_Being at Liberty, 2022