Generation P: Pei Li's Solo Exhibition
Generation P, the title Pei Li chose for this exhibition, is expressive of a general attitude amongst her generation, but it is also specific to her experience. Initially, “P” was for Pei Li, but also because pei sounds close to pain in English. Like many of her generation, Pei Li is comfortable thinking in English. But that was more specific than intended. ‘I feel pain, a little strange,’ she explained, ‘because I always want to have fun. There is no pain for me. “P” can mean a lot of things pain punk paranoia Pei Li photoshop pink perfect puberty prime pay perhaps play …’She describes the sum of the works she intended for Generation P as presenting the perfect distortion of the age in which she lives—she means that psychologically as well as physically, which she demonstrated in the works she produced.
Curator: Karen Smith
Opening Party: 2012, Saturday 25th of August, 3pm-6pm
Exhibition Time: 25.08.2012—07.10.2012
Venue: Platform China Space A
The Endurance Machine: Bi Jianye's Solo Exhibition
The science of success acts as a catalyst accelerating the loss of attitudes towards diligence and perseverance as well as a hardworking mentality among young people, which makes them vulnerable in finding stability in their life. This time Bi Jianye focuses more on the spiritual space, towards inner realities in his solo exhibition entitled “The Endurance Machine”; he is in fact going to create trouble for himself searching for enriching experiences in life.
Bi Jianye-Analogue, 2011; oil on canvas, 127cmx170cm
Bi Jianye-I&II&III, 2012;oil on canvas, 120x90cm
Bi Jianye-Travelling Across the Sea, 2012; oil on canvas, 80x50cm
In this new series of works, the artist is intentionally avoiding the narrative expression, revisiting the system of drawing and looking for new possibilities. Using ultra-ordinary objects as the subject of his paintings, he provides a definite methodology to process the irrelevance and uncertainty among the depicted objects. Hence opposing the usual way people look into things, he suggests different perspectives for observation, which insinuate our speculation towards our life, values and relationships within society.
Date: 2012-8-25 - 2012-10-7
Venue: Platform China
Artist: Bi Jianye
Courtesy of the artists and Platform China, for further information please visit www.platformchina.org.
