Shen Yuan
dal 24/7/2001 al 9/9/2001
Segnalato da
24/7/2001
Shen Yuan
Chisenhale Gallery, London
Shen Yuan's dramatic "Un Matin Du Monde" is an installation which re-creates the entire roof-top of a traditional Chinese house. Shen Yuan's expansive practice ranges from monumental site-specific interventions to intimate, visceral objects. Shen Yuan is a Chinese-born artist who moved to live and work in Paris in 1990.
Shen Yuan's dramatic "Un Matin Du Monde" is an installation which re-creates the entire roof-top of a traditional Chinese house.
Using terracotta clay tiles in
the style of the Fujian
Province, the roof will be
adorned with spices and
duck, and will house the sounds of everyday life. Shen
Yuan's expansive practice ranges from monumental
site-specific interventions to intimate, visceral objects.
Shen Yuan is a Chinese-born artist who moved to live and
work in Paris in 1990. Her recent work, including Un Matin
Du Monde, is manifest with observations on her cultural
environment.
Un Matin Du Monde appears to be a memento of the artist's
Chinese hometown, directly transplanted into Chisenhale's
vast East End space. However the forms, sounds and
odours of Un Matin Du Monde are essentially fragments,
unloaded from Shen Yuan's own biographical narrative. The
work not only embodies questions of identity: it is a
concrete display of the critical global issues of
displacement and transmigration.
This major solo exhibition at Chisenhale is produced in
collaboration with the Institute of International Visual Arts
(inIVA), and Arnolfini, Bristol, where Shen Yuan will be
showing a range of work in a complementary solo show.
The project will be accompanied by a fully illustrated
monograph, published by inIVA.
Shen Yuan has participated in several group shows in the
UK. Parisiennes, at Camden Arts Centre (1997) included the
work 'In Threes and Fours, or In Knots' (1997), where Shen
Yuan masked the gallery's windows with gigantic plaits of
hair. Cities On The Move, Hayward Gallery (1999), featured
'Street Battle' (1997). This work combined video footage of
demonstrations, spliced from different historical moments
and locations. The audience were invited to partake in the
insurrection by hurling eggs at the screen.
Chisenhale Gallery is located in the heart of
London’s east end. This area is home to a thriving
and diverse group of galleries and artists studios.
Opening times: 1-6pm Wed-Sun
(the gallery is closed between exhibitions, always check listings or phone)