清影

Curator:	Inna Xu
Artist:	Bignia Wehrli, Liao Wenfeng
Date:	2017.03.25-05.10
Opening:	2017.03.25, 15:00
Open hours:	12:00-17:00(Tue.-Sun.)
Venue:	Inna Art Space
Add:	Block No. 12,139 LiuHe Road, Hangzhou, China
Tel:	+86-0571-87023522
Email:	info@innart.org
Organizer:	Inna Art Space

A Circle, But Not Round

 

Are we going hunting? Yes.

Will I sleep today? Yes.

Is there a meaning to life? No.

Is there life after death? Yes.

Does it take a lot to be happy? No.

Will I find a girlfriend?

Will Anton join the army?

Will my son be admitted to some decrepit old hospital?

Is there a meaning to existence? No.

Will I ever visit LegoLand?

— Yes/No Egg — Yekaterinburg Book 4,pp. 109, 110

 

The Inna Art Space is proud to announce the opening of the exhibition A circle, but not round — featuring works by Berlin based artists Bignia Wehrli and Liao Wenfeng. Aside from displaying individual artworks by both artists, the exhibition also presents a collaboration project the two began in Russia during the year 2015, Yes/No Egg — a question solving “tool” of sorts.

 

Bignia Wehrli and Liao Wenfeng are both artists adept in redeploying and exaggerating detailed aspects of the everyday to deconstruct and inquire deeper into the hardened understandings and mental logics which underpin these. Both address matters of image, painting and text in their work and present observations pertaining to our own, lived circumstances, manifesting in present, moving space and time.

 

Bignia Wehrli’s works often employ measuring devices of the artist’s making to capture and transform ephemeral traces. One example is the photographic installation Sonnenzirkel (Solar Circle), where a typewriter case is adapted to produce a pinhole camera. Floating down the river, the case recorded traces of the sun’s relative motions on the photographic paper within, making manifest both the paradoxes and correspondences that exist between consistency and fluctuation.

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A Circle, But Not Round

 

Are we going hunting? Yes.

Will I sleep today? Yes.

Is there a meaning to life? No.

Is there life after death? Yes.

Does it take a lot to be happy? No.

Will I find a girlfriend?

Will Anton join the army?

Will my son be admitted to some decrepit old hospital?

Is there a meaning to existence? No.

Will I ever visit LegoLand?

— Yes/No Egg — Yekaterinburg Book 4,pp. 109, 110

 

The Inna Art Space is proud to announce the opening of the exhibition A circle, but not round — featuring works by Berlin based artists Bignia Wehrli and Liao Wenfeng. Aside from displaying individual artworks by both artists, the exhibition also presents a collaboration project the two began in Russia during the year 2015, Yes/No Egg — a question solving “tool” of sorts.

 

Bignia Wehrli and Liao Wenfeng are both artists adept in redeploying and exaggerating detailed aspects of the everyday to deconstruct and inquire deeper into the hardened understandings and mental logics which underpin these. Both address matters of image, painting and text in their work and present observations pertaining to our own, lived circumstances, manifesting in present, moving space and time.

 

Bignia Wehrli’s works often employ measuring devices of the artist’s making to capture and transform ephemeral traces. One example is the photographic installation Sonnenzirkel (Solar Circle), where a typewriter case is adapted to produce a pinhole camera. Floating down the river, the case recorded traces of the sun’s relative motions on the photographic paper within, making manifest both the paradoxes and correspondences that exist between consistency and fluctuation.

 

Addressing aspects of the everyday, Liao Wenfeng cuts and rearranges the bonds connecting image and our understanding of this with consistently intriguing results. An example of this can be found in the video work Second Grass, where the movements of one blade within a patch of grass are set to fit the motions of a clock’s second, it’s moving thus with this in kind.

 

The works in the exhibition.A circle, but not round not only manifest each artist’s fascination with paradox, but also their inquiries into the poetics of nature and the everyday.Aside from this, adopting an explicatory mode both mysterious and absurd, the collaborative work Yes/No Egg playfully embraces happenstance and stricture to pose questions transcending the borders of reason, thus providing the viewer with both the joy of chance occurrence and an opportunity for self-reflection.

 

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