Exhibition date: Sep 29-Oct 20, 2024
Opening: Sep 29, 16:00-18:00
Address: C5301, No 151 Hanzhongmen Street, Nanjing
Artsits: Hong kai, Huang xinyi, Liu tong, Lin long, Wu houting, Wang yichen
Exhibition text:
"Proposal: Life, Breath, Flesh" explores how subjectivity transforms into the Other, when the human body becomes a past mechanism, and speculates on posthuman scenarios beyond metamorphosis.
From material to immaterial; from organic to inorganic; from human to non-human; from ground matter to pure idealism. Plastic, impermanent flesh; mutants come from oil, soil and fossils, and today's human body eventually becomes a medium channel and returns to it again (sacrifice-owner). These transformation processes reflect the way that life-like life has become dematerialized in the 21st century. Capitalism increasingly transforms matter into gas (breath, spirit), and new technologies enable contemporary humans to constantly cross screens, making it possible to break free from the boundaries of the body.
From material to immaterial; from organic to inorganic; from human to non-human; from ground matter to pure idealism. Plastic, impermanent flesh; mutants come from oil, soil and fossils, and today's human body eventually becomes a medium channel and returns to it again (sacrifice-owner). These transformation processes reflect the way that life-like life has become dematerialized in the 21st century. Capitalism increasingly transforms matter into gas (breath, spirit), and new technologies enable contemporary humans to constantly cross screens, making it possible to break free from the boundaries of the body.
The exhibition sees "metamorphosis" as a modification strategy to avoid destruction, while also expanding the ideas of posthumanism, mysticism, and the "evolutionary process" of biological life. Perhaps it is visible that this new universe will be more surreal, more machine-like, and more inclined to spirituality.