as usual：rags, plates & Sheets
Date:
1.May- 8.May, 2022
Address:
cusp. 79 Fengshan Rd, Hangzhou, China, 310000
Artists:
Yang Bowei
Introduction:
As a new column of cusp. gallery, the cusp. pubup will announce a series of recent works by Bowei Yang in the exhibition named Shadow Voyeur. The exhibition will run for 8 days from May 1 to May 8, 2022. In this body of work, Bowei juxtaposed writings, and sculptures, with photographic practice to reconstruct a queer reality in the grey zone between the personal and collective memory. His work proposed a new perspective to introspect the meaning of surroundings. With his portrait works as a gate towards perceiving his practices, he also emphasized a multi-understanding of symbols in different culture contexts. The exhibition will also include several new sculptures in his body of work. Inspired by Jean Genet's and Alain Robbe-Grillet's writings, Bowei had collected and introspected the common objects, and he used the language of photography to transform the narrative from the origin to a more subjective perception in the way of synecdoche.
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Date:
1.May- 8.May, 2022
Address:
cusp. 79 Fengshan Rd, Hangzhou, China, 310000
Artists:
Yang Bowei
Introduction:
As a new column of cusp. gallery, the cusp. pubup will announce a series of recent works by Bowei Yang in the exhibition named Shadow Voyeur. The exhibition will run for 8 days from May 1 to May 8, 2022. In this body of work, Bowei juxtaposed writings, and sculptures, with photographic practice to reconstruct a queer reality in the grey zone between the personal and collective memory. His work proposed a new perspective to introspect the meaning of surroundings. With his portrait works as a gate towards perceiving his practices, he also emphasized a multi-understanding of symbols in different culture contexts. The exhibition will also include several new sculptures in his body of work. Inspired by Jean Genet's and Alain Robbe-Grillet's writings, Bowei had collected and introspected the common objects, and he used the language of photography to transform the narrative from the origin to a more subjective perception in the way of synecdoche.
The broken branch, Hangzhou, China, 2021
From If Spring Could Feel Ache,
Archival pigment print,
88*110 cm
From If Spring Could Feel Ache,
Archival pigment print,
88*110 cm
The blue shadow of caltrops, Hangzhou, China, 2021
From If Spring Could Feel Ache,
Archival pigment print,
16.5*22 cm
From If Spring Could Feel Ache,
Archival pigment print,
16.5*22 cm
The fence of a cave, Guanshan Mountain, Fuyang, China, 2021
From If Spring Could Feel Ache,
Archival pigment print,
88*110 cm
From If Spring Could Feel Ache,
Archival pigment print,
88*110 cm
The shelter, 2022
Wooden ladder, tungsten lamp, wood branch, iron chain, gelatin silver print 69*210*90 cm
Wooden ladder, tungsten lamp, wood branch, iron chain, gelatin silver print 69*210*90 cm
Bowei Yang (b.1994 Hangzhou China) now lives and works between Hangzhou and London. By mainly focusing on the subject of the native queer culture, his work not only documents the contemporary queers living in China combined with staged memories of personal intimate experience, but he also tries to query the self-identity in awareness of diverse collective identifications and traumas. His works are mostly inspired by the literature, and psychoanalysis of Jung and are constructed to ponder the relationship between fictitious documents and semiotics through studying the ontology of photography.
He received his Bachelor's Degree in Photography from Beijing Film Academy in 2017 and graduated from the Royal College of Art in London in 2021. His group exhibitions include: “Renew : A Recent Survey in Chinese Contemporary Photography”, Eli Klein Gallery, New York, 2022; “La nuit et la forêt”, cusp. Space, Hangzhou, 2022; “ART’N DIOR”, Shenzhen Museum of Contemporary Art and Urban, Shenzhen, 2021; “Double visian& After The High Tide”, The Cromwell Place, London, 2021; “Final, not Over - again”, the Unit 1 Gallery, London, 2021; “Emerging Talent 2019”, Galerie Joseph, Paris, 2019. He was named by the Foam Talent 2021, the Dior Photography and Visual Arts Award for Young Talents 2020, PHmuseum 2020 Photography Grand new generation prize honorable mention, Gomma Photography 2019, and Emerging Talent 2019 by Lensculture. His work has been published in: Foam Magazine, Modern Weekly Style Magazine, IGNANT Magazine, China Daily, among others.
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