BROWNIE Project 即将开幕 | 郭盈光个展：《郭盈光》
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2022-09-07 09:00
上海
Duration: September 9 - October 30,2022开幕 Opening: 9/9 14:00-19:00表演 Performance: 9/9 17:00, 18:00Address: Rm 105, Bldg 6, 50 Moganshan Rd, Shanghai《你说你喜欢白的 I》 YOU SAY YOU LIKE IT PALE I , 2021Giclee on matte art paper and aluminum panel《郭盈光》将呈现郭盈光继其相亲角行为影像作品《顺从的幸福》于公共话语领域引发激烈讨论后的全新创作。2018年至今，艺术家一直试图以全新媒介及概念的作品来拼贴身处舆论中心的女性所经历的晦涩时刻：被当作女性主义的发声者，被动接受公共现实对于其认知的矛盾立场，更直接且戏剧化的，被来自世界各地的陌生男子网络求爱。《郭盈光》是她在“成为女人”和反对“成为女人”的拉扯中发出诘问：多重身份构建下的我/女性究竟是谁？
本次展览通过雕塑、装置、动态影像、摄影共同架构出一个诡异而又神秘的舞台，探索女性身份在重重社会规范下不断流动着的自我创造过程，呈现了梦想与暴力之间的张力。这也是郭盈光继2019年巴黎个展后的首次个展。1980年代出生于中国东北，郭盈光在艺术家生涯伊始就将自己作为创作对象和方法，争议性极强的《顺从的幸福》系列作品曾为她斩获首届集美·阿尔勒女性摄影师大奖。这个长达两年的相亲角行为项目揭示了当代中国婚姻市场中女性所面临的传统伦理与个体经验的众多矛盾，并在Youtube和国内多个媒体平台引发了病毒式传播。郭盈光因此累计收获了上百封来自网络的求爱信与质疑她“剩女”身份的私人邮件，这些直至今天依然在增加的评论与关注为个展《郭盈光》埋下伏笔。“如果波伏娃关于一个人并非生来即为女人，而是后天成为一个女人的说法有什么正确之处，那么女人本身就是一个关于过程的术语，一个生成，一个构造，不能正确地说出它的起源或终结。作为一个持续的话语实践，它向干预和重新定义保持开放。”（朱迪思·巴特勒，《性别问题：女权主义与身份颠覆》）在当下女性主义讨论泛滥的场景里，郭盈光对其中冻卵、隐私、网络暴力、性别关系和女性赋权等具体事项作出坦诚回应，试图以亲历者和观察者两种身份在女性角色的社会化过程中，映现她者的内省与反抗。例如在展厅中央的装置《你说你喜欢白的》中，郭盈光将10000块肥皂和钢结构组装成一盏直径两米的洛可可风格吊灯。他者凝视中的自我重构、规训与否定并存于清新洁白、劳动密集的“串肥皂灯”过程中。肥皂和吊灯在以女性经验为中心的语境中的现身意在挑战观众对物件本身功能与意涵的认知，隐喻当代女性日益被模糊与极端化的身份。《38俱乐部》将主流标准定义的女性形象进行再造，凝视以窥探的形态回归画面，身体局部在摄影、色粉绘画和动态影像的接龙中完成数次撕裂与愈合。《冻了你的卵，你就自由了》则通过日常剥落的蛋壳将冻卵自主权相关议题带回视野，政治宣传口号式的作品标题似乎在刻意混淆其发声主体：这究竟是特定圈层与生命阶段的女性真正的深层需求，抑或是商品经济对“自由”的再一次明码标价? 与之相对应地，《噗》的矛头直接转向艺术家本人经社交媒体所致的创伤体验，咀嚼过后的葵花籽与弹幕在《安魂曲》中交错纷飞，真实与虚拟世界的联名作品在此谱写；伴随着微弱而持续的打字机声，画廊二楼的长发女子选择隐去五官，留给众人一道诡谲的背影。FREEZE YOUR EGGSFREE YOUR LIFE (part) , 2021木板 蛋皮 Wood board, egg skinThe attention whore who hunts at matchmaking cornerSomeone who deserves what she gotSomeone who is looking for true loveStrong, independent, woman-like, but not too woman-like …![]()
郭盈光 Yingguang Guo
《螺丝在拧紧 III》
THE TURN OF THE SCREW III, 2021
180x120cm
艺术微喷与绒面相纸
Giclee on matte paper
Ed1/3+1AP
GUO YINGGUANG presents a new body of works by Yingguang Guo after her matchmaking corner performance/image series The Bliss of Conformity stirred up drastic discussions in the public sphere. Since 2018, Guo has been experimenting with media and concepts to embody the ambiguous moments of being the target of public opinions toward female identity. She was regarded as the voice of feminism, exposed to the contradictory identities endorsed by the Internet. More directly and dramatically, she's been receiving countless e-courtship letters from strange men around the globe. An intermedium of becoming and anti-becoming a woman, GUO YINGGUANG incarnates the artist's search for answers to the question: Who exactly am I (is the female) under the layered facade of multiple identities?Combining sculpture, installation, video and photography, the exhibition builds an eerie and mysterious stage to explore the ongoing self-creation of the female under social sanction, and to present the tension between dream and violence. This is Yingguang Guo’s first solo exhibition after her last one at Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris, 2019.Born in Northeast China in the 1980s, Yingguang Guo started her artist career taking herself as the object and method of practice. She was awarded the first Jimei Arles Madame Figaro Women Photographer Award with the highly controversial series The Bliss of Conformity. This two-year-long matchmaking corner performance project revealed contradictions between traditional ethics and individual experience faced by women in the contemporary Chinese marriage market, and has triggered a viral response on YouTube and multiple domestic media platforms. As a result, Guo has received hundreds of e-courtship letters and direct messages questioning her identity as a "leftover woman". These comments and public attention are still increasing to this day, foreshadowing the solo exhibition GUO YINGGUANG."If there is anything right about Beauvoir's statement that a person is not born a woman, but becomes a woman, then women themselves are a term about processes, a generation, a construction, which cannot correctly say its origin or end. As an ongoing discursive practice, it remains open to intervention and redefinition." (Judith Butler, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity) In the current scene where opinions about feminism predominate, Yingguang Guo's work candidly responds to specific issues such as egg freezing, privacy, online violence, gender relations and women's empowerment. An experiencer and observer, these pieces are to project the introspection and resistance of the female others in the process of socialization.For example, in the installation YOU SAY YOU LIKE IT PALE in the center of the main gallery, Guo assembled 10,000 slices of soap and steel structures into a Rococo-style chandelier with a diameter of 200 centimeters. Self-reconstruction, discipline and negation in the gaze of the Others coexist throughout the refreshingly pure and labor-intensive process of soap beading. The appearance of soap and chandelier in the context of female experience intends to challenge the audience's cognition of the objects' function and original implication, a metaphor for the increasingly blurred yet polarized identities of contemporary women.《你说你喜欢白的》 YOU SAY YOU LIKE IT PALE , 2022With the gaze recursing in the form of peeping, 38 CLUB recreates the female image defined by mainstream standards, while segments of the woman's body are torn and healed in the non-linear sequence of photography, pastel painting and video. FREEZE YOUR EGGS FREE YOUR LIFE brings issues related to the autonomy of egg freezing back to the horizon through peeled eggshells. The propaganda-slogan-styled title deliberately confuses its subject; Is egg-freezing indeed a need for self-actualization of women in specific circles and life stages, or is it just another explicit price tag in the disguise of "freedom" in the commodity economy? In contrast, PUFF is a direct outcome of the traumatic experience through social media of the artist's own. The chewed sunflower seeds and bullet-screen crisscross in Mozart's Requiem, a joint work of the real and the virtual thus composed. Meanwhile, accompanied by the faint, unceasing sound of a typewriter, a faceless long-haired lady on the second floor of the gallery turns her back to us uncannily.![]()
单通道影像 Single channel video1983年生于中国辽宁，现居住工作于北京。伦敦艺术大学传媒学院摄影硕士，中国传媒大学艺术摄影专业学士。郭盈光的创作开启于她在中国日报与路透社的摄影记者工作经历，她的跨媒介艺术实践结合影像、装置、行为、手工书等多种呈现方式，着重探索女性在中国现实与网络情境中的婚姻、生存及自我价值状况。郭盈光凭借《顺从的幸福》系列作品获得2017年集美·阿尔勒Madame Figaro女性摄影师奖，受到法国阿尔勒国际摄影节官方展览邀请及Sophie Calle（苏菲·卡尔）、Paul Graham（保罗·格雷厄姆）等知名艺术家的推荐。郭盈光也是首位在欧洲摄影馆（Maison Européenne de la Photographie）举办个展的中国女性艺术家。
郭盈光，BROWNIE Project，个展，上海，中国NEW CONNECTION，悦·美术馆，北京，中国NEW CONNECTION，X-SPACE富士影像共享空间，上海，中国再发现，集美·阿尔勒获奖作品联展，誌屋，上海，中国郭盈光：顺从的幸福，个展，Maison Européenne de la Photographie，巴黎，法国“顺从的幸福” Photobook Unseen Amsterdam 2017，阿姆斯特丹，荷兰Three Fold，Builtifou Gallery，杭州，中国Three Fold，UGLY DUCK，伦敦传媒学院期末展，伦敦，英国Wind，伦敦图库，影像伦敦艺术博览会，伦敦，英国Irrelationship，伦敦传媒学院/伦敦艺术大学摄影硕士期中展，伦敦，英国集美阿尔勒Madame Figaro女性摄影师大奖2020 “女性视角的影像创作”，中国传媒⼤学，北京，中国2019 “CHRISTIE’S LATES Art in Motion-摄影在中国“，佳士得，伦敦2019 “la nouvelle vague de la photographie chinoise”，欧洲摄影博物馆，巴黎2018 “大学校园营造工作坊” ，北京大学，北京2017 “作为知识生产的当代摄影”，华侨大学，厦门Yingguang Guo (b. 1983, Liaoning, China) lives and works in Beijing. Yingguang Guo graduated from London College of Communication (UAL) with a Master’s degree in photography, Communication University of China with a Bachelor's degree in Photography (Art Direction).Guo began her career in image-making with her experience in China Daily, Reuters, and other media groups. Moving on to a more comprehensive art practice, her multi-media practice of photography, printmaking, video, installation, performance and artist book explores the marriage, living and self-value reality faced by women in today’s Chinese society. Guo won the Jimei ARLES 2017 Madame Figaro Women Photographer Award with the series The Bliss of Conformity and was invited to exhibit at Rencontres d'Arles International Photography Festival in France in 2018. During the exhibition, her works were highly recommended by the well-known artists Sophie Calle and Paul Graham. She had her solo exhibition Yingguang Guo: The Bliss of Conformity opened at Maison Européenne de la Photographie (Paris, France) in 2019, marking her the first Chinese female artist to hold a solo exhibition at the MEP.GUO YINGGUANG, BROWNIE Project, Shanghai, China (Solo Exhibition)NEW CONNECTION, Enjoy Art Museum, Beijing, ChinaNEW CONNECTION, X-Space, Shanghai, ChinaRediscovery: A Selection of Jimei × Arles Awards, curated by Christoph WiesnerModern Art Base, Shanghai, ChinaPublic·Park, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, ChinaYingguang Guo: The Bliss of Conformity. Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France (Solo Exhibition)Nuit de la Photo，SwitzerlandMonroe/Monroe, Shang Ba Art Gallery, Beijing, ChinaArles Les Rencontres De La Photographie, Arles, FranceArles Les Rencontres De La Photographie, Arles, FranceJimei x Arles International Photo Festival, Xiamen, ChinaUnique Gender, Paris, FranceThe Bliss of Conformity Photobook, Unseen Amsterdam, NetherlandsNingbo International Photgraphy Week, Ningbo, ChinaThree Fold, BuiltifouGallery, Hangzhou, ChinaThree Fold, UGLY DUCK, LCC MA Photography Final Show, London, UKWind, Photo London Group Exhibition, London Photo Gallery, London, UKIrrelationship, LCC/UAL MA Photography Interim Show, London, UKThe Way, Shanghai Himalayas Museum, Shanghai, ChinaJimei Arles Madame Figaro Women Photographers AwardJimei x Arles International Photo Festival Discovery Award (Nominated)2020 “The Female Gaze：Women’s Role in Image Making”, Communication University of China, Beijing, China2019 “CHRISTIE’S LATES Art in Motion”, CHRISTIE, London, UK2019 “la nouvelle vague de la photographie chinoise”, LA MAISON EUROPÉENNE DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE, Paris, France2018 “Mapping”, Peking University, Beijing, China2017 “Knowledge production contemporary photography“, Huaqiao University, Xiamen, ChinaDoland Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, ChinaMaison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, FranceCrédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank Collection
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