EXHIBITIONSPerson-a

Being an artist is like a train that goes in the opposite direction, going astray at one’s own will, inevitably crashing fiercely into the source of information. Dazzled in the eyes, one sees a figurative “person”, a blurry illegible “even”, a time slapped into the face because of synchronicity, or a place with nobody during a feast. Through the coding of the artists, they are transformed into entirely different paths and forms.

The exhibition traces a “person-A”, a desk-mate who is acquainted with the three artists but whom they have never met, just like the illegible birthmarks they all bear, which share the same color and shape. Lin Aojie comes to a boundary where he has never been, and picks up a list of words that run through the cognitions as fragments. The sequences and owners, however, slip from the fingers instantly and leave only the flesh and a slight scent. In the sight of Zhang Hui, similar images of a person can be regarded as a subject that can represent “experience” and be constrained by “experience” in the end. On the contrary, Zhang Ding is surrounded by persons and events, but the various cognitions of the site make its subjectivity an invalid one. The fragments of truth are picked up by three artists accidentally, while every bit of them is twisting and wiggling, with the overwhelming information under their feet like the sands of a desert. The enumeration and the final absence of information constitute the inner logic of these “clues”.

Who is Person-a? Where are they hiding? How can we decode this? How to re-encode, and penetrate through the light and shadows, coming back to a world that we have never really been in?

The initiation of the ongoing research exhibition project BEING INFORMATION of the contemporary art space SSSSTART has already put forward one of the topics — information clearly becomes one of the power systems of the present day, which is rapidly growing yet hard to judge. Artists seek answers in art-making, while disclosing the difficult judgements and the complicated environments they are placed in, as well as how they cope with the changes from the outside world and deal with themselves. And yet, the conversation has just commenced.