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    A Useless Journey

    无用之旅

     

    2022

    Yaqun Han

    Oil on Canvas

    50 x 60 cm

    Contact for price

    A Useless Journey

    无用之旅

     

    2022

    Yaqun Han

    Oil on Canvas

    50 x 60 cm

    Contact for price

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    Yaqun Han

     

     

    Work Statement:

     

    不断的迁徙搬家意味着身体和习惯的空间处于不断移动的过程中,我被那些只用过一次便丢弃的包装材料所吸引。

    闪烁着脆弱光线的透明纸包裹着同样脆弱的魂魄标本,用一种奇怪的方式诠释这些无用的旅途。当廉价褶皱布满整个画面,没有轮廓和边界,这时我们不再“看”,而是“读”。

    像是对这化工卑贱物进行最后的仪式。

     

    Constant migratory moves mean that the body and the accustomed space are in a constant state of movement, and I am drawn to packing materials that are used only once and then discarded.

    Transparent paper glistening with fragile light wrapped around equally fragile specimens of souls interpret these useless journeys in a strange way. When the cheap folds cover the whole canvas, with no outlines or boundaries, we no longer "see" but "read".

    It's like performing the last rites for this lowly creature.

     

     

    Artist Bio:

     

    画画和拍照,是我与吸引我的事物产⽣联系、互相触碰的⽅式, 我与被观看的那些事物的距离总是犹犹豫豫忽远忽近不断变化。丧⽓的东⻄⼤概有⼀种诗意,我常被表象的脆弱深深吸引,⽐如⽇渐衰败的⽪肤、残破的建筑表⾯、隐隐不安的⽣活碎⽚、不断演变重构的记忆,这些时间的断层解剖着不应该被丢掉的过去,影响着当下和未来。捡拾和回收这些碎⽚,是我对抗遗忘的⽅式。

    关于疾病的探索始于家⼈的突然⽣病,在拥有极少疾病体验的年纪,给了我巨⼤的冲击。绘画是我从⼉时就持续在做的⼀个动作,这种熟悉的⾏为让我在疾病的冲击中找到确定感。我对失序⾮常敏感,在动荡混乱中重建、修复、制造新的秩序,是更打动我的动作。失序的疾病⽆疑会在绘画中建⽴起新的秩序。

    在我看来,家庭,爱情,友情等社会单位总在给予个体能量和失望之间来回摇摆。在周遭环境巨⼤的洪流之中,我与他⼈形成了⼀种脆弱易逝的⾰命队友关系,在时间的漂流中总会因为种种原因负伤或解散,于是休养重组,接着继续负伤或解散。在领会⼀种巨⼤的潜在的不确定性的同时,我们仍然彼此寄托着最强烈的依恋和依赖。我的创作经常围绕这些“队伍”留

    下的碎⽚展开,在“打磨抛光”的过程中完成治愈的仪式,然后细细品尝。

     

    Painting and taking photographs are ways for me to create a connection with and touch the things that attract me, and the distance between me and the things that I am looking at is always hesitant and constantly changing, from far away to close to the things that I am looking at. There is a poetic quality to mourning in general, and I am often drawn to the fragility of appearances, such as deteriorating skin, crumbling architectural surfaces, disturbing fragments of life, and evolving and reconstructed memories, as these fault lines in time dissect a past that should not be discarded, and influence the present and the future. Collecting and recycling these fragments is my way of combating forgetfulness.

     

    My exploration of illness began with the sudden illness of a family member, which hit me hard at an age when I had very little experience of illness. Drawing was an ongoing activity for me from childhood, and this familiarity allowed me to find a sense of certainty in the midst of the shock of illness. I am sensitive to disorder, and the action of rebuilding, repairing, and creating new order in the midst of turmoil and chaos is the action that moves me more than anything else. The disease of disorder can no doubt create a new order in painting.

     

    In my view, social units such as family, love, and friendship always oscillate back and forth between giving energy to the individual and disappointment. Amidst the vast flood of circumstances around me, I have formed a fragile and perishable relationship with other people as a kind of team, wounded or disbanded for one reason or another in the drift of time, and then recuperated and reorganized, and then continued to be wounded or disbanded. While appreciating a great potential uncertainty, we still have the strongest attachment and dependence on each other. My work often revolves around the fragments left behind by these "teams".

     

    My creations often revolve around the fragments left behind by these "teams", completing the healing ritual in the process of "polishing" and then savoring them.

     

     

     

    Yaqun Han/韩亚群 b.1992, China

     

    Education

     

    Bachelor of Fine Arts, Tsinghua University

    本科毕业于清华⼤学美术学院

    Master's Degree at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Dijon

    硕⼠毕业于法国第戎国⽴⾼等美术学院

     

     

     

    Exhibitions

     

    “荒草”驻地艺术创作营,德化,福建(2022)

    B ARTS&J Gallery 群展“在阳光房里”,BA 艺术中心,上海(2022)

    第八届上海青年艺术博览会“艺气风发”,海派艺术馆,上海(2022)

    J Gallery 秋季群展“What are you looking at?”,J Gallery,上海 (2022)

    “境域”旅法新锐艺术家作品联展,J Gallery,上海(2022)

    Ormesson 摄影节,法国 Ormesson-sur-Marne(2021)

    欧洲世界遗产日特邀艺术家,讲座“两个世界,两种⻅证”,罗丹美术馆,法国欧坦(2020)

    第二届欧坦当代艺术双年展,“什么都没有丢失,什么都没有创造,一切都改变了”,罗丹美术馆,法国欧坦 (2020)

    “Fenêtre(窗)2016-2018”韩亚群个人摄影展,Mansart 剧院,法国第戎 (2019)

    AFIH“将生活·以艺术”北京城市艺术博览会,北京(2019)

    中法艺术家联展“Vitalité(生命力)”,创意方文化中心,法国巴黎 (2019)

    中法艺术家作品展“Hors champ(画外空间)”,勒芒大学,法国勒芒(2015)

    群展,当代中国名家油画展,当代中国书法艺术馆,内蒙古乌海(2014)

    群展,清华大学美术学院本科生毕业展,清华大学美术学院,北京(2014)

    群展,第三届清华大学美术学院优秀学生作品展“爆破”,清华大学美术学院,北京(2013)

    群展,清华大学美术学院油画系群展“新声”,清华大学美术学院,北京(2013)

    群展,水木清华造型艺术作品展,宋庄美院艺术中心,北京 (2013)

     

     

     

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    Absent Gallery 闲聊

     

     

    Absent Gallery:

    How would you describe your creative state?

    你会如何讲述自己的创作状态?

     

    Yaqun:

    我的生活和创作都始于物理层面的游牧,在被动或主动的空间位移中,我会寻找或制造一些细小动荡,以此为蓝本在创作中建立新的秩序。

    我觉得创作和生活一样,是一种西西弗式的困境,对抗重建努力,都是徒劳的,最终会在打转和重复中消解一切意义。生命力可能是唯一解药。

     

    My life and creation both begin with nomadism on the physical level. In passive or active spatial displacements, I will search for or create some small turbulences, and use them as a blueprint to establish a new order in my creation.

    I feel that creation, like life, is a Sisyphean dilemma, where confrontation, reconstruction, and endeavour are all futile, and will ultimately dissolve all meaning in spinning and repetition. Vitality may be the only antidote.

    Translated with DeepL.com (free version)

     

     

    Absent Gallery:

    What factors have influenced your creation?

    请谈谈你的艺术创作受哪些因素影响?

     

    Yaqun:

    通过地域与时间的变化所产生的经验常是我思考与实践的出发点,比如日常的碎片和关于家庭的个人经历等等能让我展开推理的事物。“买椟还珠”,“舍本逐末”比较像我生成的实践。我的创作中或多或少呈现一种卑贱物崇拜,我希望丧气的剩余的脆弱的东西也被看见。就像推理情节中最重要的线索总藏在垃圾袋里,我作为艺术家的角色是捡拾和重构这些卑贱的线索。

    Experiences generated through geographical and temporal changes are often the starting point of my thinking and practice, such as everyday fragments and personal experiences of family, and other things that allow me to develop my reasoning. The "buyer's box" and the "end of the road" are more like the practices I generate. There is more or less a cult of the lowly in my creations, and I want to see the remaining fragility of the demoralised as well. Just as the most important clues in a deductive plot are always hidden in a rubbish bag, my role as an artist is to pick up and reconstruct these humble clues.

     

     

     

    Absent Gallery:

    What are your upcoming plans or expectations for the artwork?

    未来对作品有什么计划或期待?

     

    Yaqun:

    希望作品的整体面貌有突破,更明确,作品能够自己生长。希望有一颗更大心脏应对“徒劳”。

    I hope that there will be a breakthrough in the overall look of the work, that it will be clearer, that it will grow on its own. I hope to have a bigger heart to cope with "futility".

     

    Absent Gallery:

    Describe in one word your feelings or expectations as an artist about the current creative environment.

    请用一个词汇描述你作为艺术家(艺术创作者)对目前创作环境的感受或期许。

     

    Yaqun:

    拆盲盒

    Opening the blind box

     

     

     

     

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