Wu Jiaru's ,,beige_jelly_projection_“ (2020) is on view at Para Site, as part of the group exhibition Curtain.
Curtain
Exhibition period: 15 May - 25 July 2021
Venue: 22/F, Para Site, Hong Kong
Para Site and Rockbund Art Museum present the new exhibition, Curtain, opening on 14 May 2021 at Para Site’s home and on 15 May 2021 at the institution’s temporary venue in Hong Kong’s Sheung Wan. Curtain is a continuation of the unique dialogue and partnership between the two institutions, which began in 2019 with An Opera for Animals that premiered at Para Site, with a jointly curated edition travelling to Rockbund Art Museum subsequently.
Presented across two venues in Hong Kong, the exhibition includes existing and newly commissioned works as well as site-specific interventions by 24 artists, offering a multi-layered experience that responds to the fluid concept of ‘curtain’. The exhibition makes artistic and conceptual references to passages, frontiers, separations, connections, occupations, circulations, and localities by drawing upon the mundane materiality of the curtain as a domestic object and its scenographic functions in various cultural contexts. Conceived as a framework to disrupt our usual habits of consuming visual culture, the exhibition also activates the viewer’s senses through acts of crawling into, lifting, peeking through, being guided by smell and sound, or that of reading, writing, and feeling a space.
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The text projected on one side of the cascading veil attempts to translate the abstract motifs and symbols on the other. If AI eventually reached singularity and became autonomous beings like humans, would it yearn and pine for its creator? An unbridgeable chasm exists at the center of such dichotomies as gods and humans, humans and the human-made, and creator and creation. Yet the two sides are simultaneously bound together by a helpless, almost instinctual attraction. Falling in love with the wrong species is at the core of the narrative of ,,beige_jelly_projection_“. For Wu Jiaru, every existence gravitates toward an unspeakable truth, and such tragedy and romanticism are universal.
,,beige_jelly_projection“, 2020
Text and images courtesy of Para Site.
Learn more –
https://www.para-site.art/exhibitions/curtain/