Government Mansion of Duan Qi-rui, historical site of Central Beijing
curated by Jade Ma
本次展览取名为“裂隙|韧度的临界”，旨在通过孙沐阳、张潇月两位艺术家在海外生活状态下的最新创作实践，探讨欣欣向荣表象下暗涌的生之微息，折射出的韧度。沐阳和潇月的作品都呈现出一种脆弱的平衡感，这种平衡不是静态的内外压力相抵相消，而是在内外张力中维系自己的存在。好似在身体内屏住的一口气，在作品行进的过程中缓缓吐出，不绝如缕。这种运动中的平衡感既外现在作品的形态上，也内观于艺术家对生命的体验中。
在沐阳的绘画里，饱和的圆囊是亦真亦幻的月亮、似是而非的子宫，更是由内部面向四面八方的力撑开的一张即将胀裂的薄膜。而在潇月的《巴别塔(掌中生命线)》系列作品中，生命线作为一种前进中的节奏，既是面与面的衔接处，也是片段和片段间的断点。裂隙，开合之间的一瞬，作为一个连接虚词，既可以包含承接和因果的关系，也能构成转折和让步关系。它随画面变动而确定意义，却又处于极度抽象的状态中，如薄纸上的一道折痕。艺术家将经验中那些断掉又续起、坍塌又崩开的瞬间紧攥手中，凝神收拢为一道边界，界内是不被摧毁的韧度，界外是爆裂后的空间。
"From recent practices of Moya and Yiy, Rupture-- Before & Beyond explores the gentle breathing and tenacity of life underneath the thriving appearances. Both of their works presents a sense of fragile balance. It is not a static balance due to the counteract of internal and external pressure, but a living one that maintains itself among other forces. It resembles a breath held inside the body, coming out slowly and lastingly during the artists’ creation process. This balance in motion not only manifests itself in the form of artwork, but also goes introspectively to the artists’ life experiences.
In Sun Moya’s painting, the sphere may symbolize a moon that is both imaginary and real, a womb that is both fixed and biomorphic. But it is more of an inflated membrane that expands in all directions on the border of rupture; whereas in Zhang Yiy’s “Babel Towel (Lifeline in the Palm)” series, the lifeline as an ongoing rhythm, is both the joining line between surfaces and the breaking line between sections. Rupture, the moment between opening and closing, acts as a conjunction in grammar. It comprises not only continuous, causal relationships, but also adversative, concessive relationships. The rupture line shifts and specifies its meaning as the images changes. But at the same time, it stays in a position of absolute abstraction, like a crease on a piece of thin paper. The artists hold moments of breaking and continuation in their hands, converging them into a borderline, inside is an invincible tenacity, outside is a space generated after explosion."
---Jade Ma