阿拉里奥上海 |《倒置的目光》| 展期 1月12日至3月2日

阿拉里奥画廊欣然宣布将于2024年1月12日至2024年3月2日呈现群展《倒置的目光》，本次展览由策展人林叶、袁璟共同策划，将呈现艺术家陈欣、高洁、甘莹莹、柳溪、陶轶、赵玉近年的创作。观者经由他们的作品，将尝试以倒置的目光重新观看这个世界，在他处审视秩序森严的人类社会，再度找寻那个原初的、柔韧而包容的“自然”世界。

Arario Gallery is pleased to announce the group exhibition Inverted Gaze co-curated by curators LIN Ye and YUAN Jing, featuring recent works by artists CHEN Xin, GAO Jie, GAN Yingying, LIU Xi, TAO Yi, and Pocono ZHAO Yu. Viewers, through their works, will attempt to reexamine the world and human society full of power and rules from an inverted perspective, scrutinizing the highly ordered human society full of power and rules elsewhere, and searching for that primitive, soft but flexible, and inclusive "natural" world again. The exhibition will be on view from January 12 to March 2, 2024.

我们本该生活在一个“自然”的世界里。

所谓自然，是一种本来就是的状态，不仅是天地山川、花鸟虫鱼本来应该有的状态，也是人作为人本身就具有的那种天然的、与生俱来的状态。在这样的状态中，作为世界的一部分而存在，万物平等，互联互融，混沌而自在。

然而，我们总是相信某种形而上的存在，迷信权力与规则，总是因为恐惧危险而选择了恶的手段——对世界的绝对控制。不仅控制物，也控制人，在父权制的基础上制造出各种类型的控制系统，强行放逐人的天性，每个人都被迫学着以强者的目光审视一切，将人纳入一个无尽的竞争网络之中。

We are supposed to live in a "natural" world.

The so-called nature is a state of being, not only the state of nature with its mountains, rivers, flowers, birds, and fish, but also the natural and innate state of being human. In such a state, existing as a part of the world, all things are equal, interconnected, chaotic yet free.

However, we always believe in metaphysical existence, fetishize power and rules, and choose the means of evil - absolute control over the world - out of fear of danger. Not only controlling things, but also controlling people, creating all types of control systems based on patriarchy, forcibly banishing human nature, everyone is forced to learn to view everything through the eyes of the powerful, placing people into an endless network of competition.

我们需要一种倒置的目光来重新观看世界，重新理解人类文明，重新养成自我的心性。本次展览的诸位参展艺术家，他们的作品之中就承载了这样一种倒置的目光。经由他们的作品，我们能够进入一个维持着自然状态的世界，一个对弱者保持充分尊重和体认的世界，一个有着丰富多样性的松弛的世界，一种保持着差异与脆弱的整体性的世界，一个充满柔和坚韧的生命力的世界。

We need an inverted perspective to reexamine the world, to understand human civilization anew, and to re-cultivate the nature of the self. The artists in this exhibition bring such an inverted perspective to their works. Through their works, we can enter a world that maintains the state of nature, a world that fully respects and recognizes the weak, a loose world with rich diversity, a holistic world that maintains differences and vulnerabilities, and a world full of soft and resilient vitality.

在陶轶的绘画作品中，人的精神与周遭世界相融相生，自然生成了一种如音乐一般的偶然性的伦理。甘莹莹的摄影作品将人带回到充满诗意的被人遗忘的栖居之地，让人在茫茫不知所踪的绝境中感受某种强大的生命力。柳溪的雕塑作品决绝地瓦解了笼罩在现代社会之中的某种僵化的绝对视线，让人从那个貌似破碎的观念世界中重新构筑新的标准与价值。在赵玉的作品中，曾经被现代性驱离的女性经验与世界融合在了一起，重新塑造出一个崭新的、开放式的生命视野。而在高洁的作品中，每一位脆弱的、边缘的个体生命都得到了应有的倾听与尊重，促使观者对个人生活中的运气、冲突和代价做出相应的反思。陈欣则通过绘画将女性所联通的另一种人类气质转化为一种柔和而坚毅的精神力量，让人从中深切地体认到那种在万物之间流转的、隐性而微妙的生命自然状态。

In Tao Yi's paintings, the human spirit is in harmony with the surrounding world, naturally generating an ethic of serendipity like music. Gan Yingying's photographs bring people back to a poetic and forgotten habitat, allowing us to feel a certain powerful vitality in the midst of a vast and unknown wilderness. Liu Xi's sculptures decisively dismantle the rigid and absolute vision that shrouds modern society, allowing people to reconstruct new standards and values from the seemingly broken conceptual world. In Pocono Zhao Yu's works, the female experience, once alienated by modernity, integrates with the world, reshaping a new, open-ended vision of life. In Gao Jie's works, every fragile, marginalized individual life receives the due attention and respect, prompting viewers to reflect on the luck, conflicts, and costs in their personal lives. Chen Xin transforms the other human temperament that women are associated with into a soft and resolute spiritual force through her paintings. This allows people to deeply recognize the hidden and subtle natural state of life that flows among all things.

现代社会总是诱导人们沉溺于对确定性、坚固性、权威性的盲目崇拜之中，让人将狂妄虚无的价值当成唯一，忘记了真理总是存在于那些普通平凡的脆弱状态中。为了触及那个被人造系统遮蔽的真实世界，这几位艺术家都采用了自然而平等的目光，视线穿透各种陈腐的观念壁垒返回到平凡且实在的世界表面。在细致的凝视下，普通且卑微的人与事物也都灼灼生辉。他们的视角与当代社会的思想惯性与刻板观念形成鲜明的对比。

Modern society has always induced people to indulge in the blind worship of certainty, solidity, and authority, treating arrogant and baseless values as the only truth, forgetting that truth always exists in ordinary, mundane and vulnerable states.  In order to reach the real world obscured by artificial systems, these artists have adopted a natural and equal perspective, and their sights penetrate the barriers of various stereotypes to return to the surface of the ordinary and real world. Under the meticulous gaze, ordinary people and things shine brightly. Their perspective sharply contrasts with the inertia and stereotypes of contemporary society.

艺术创作是一种唤醒自然的身体意识、与现实世界相互融合的社会实践。这些艺术作品除了启迪我们的艺术感受之外还具有其他更为重要的可能性。那就是引导我们在尊重不确定性、差异性与脆弱性的前提下，转换视角，从弱者的立场、从物的立场、从自然的立场去寻找一个可以共享的答案来面对“如何生活”、“如何与世界共处”的问题。回归本真的世界、唤醒被忽视被遮蔽的个体生命、结合现实生活中的各种偶然因素，一个自然和谐的生命状态在艺术家们的手中和谐地展开。

Art creation is a social practice that awakens the natural body consciousness and integrates with the real world. In addition to enlightening our artistic senses, these works of art also have more important possibilities. That is to guide us to respect uncertainty, difference and vulnerability, to change our perspective, to look for a shared answer to the question of "how to live" and "how to coexist with the world" from the standpoint of the weak, the object and nature. Returning to the real world, awakening the neglected and obscured individual life, and combining various accidental factors in real life, a natural and harmonious state of life unfolds harmoniously in the hands of the artists.

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阿拉里奥画廊自1989年创立至今，分别于韩国天安、首尔和上海拥有其支点画廊。在过去的三十年间，阿拉里奥画廊始终致力于关注与推广亚洲与国际艺术家，丰富其艺术家名单，并长期培养支持年轻艺术家。其代理的五十余位艺术家来自韩、日、中、印和东南亚地区各国，涵盖自20世纪70年代至今的实验艺术先锋，创作门类包括视觉艺术、绘画、雕塑、影像以及装置等众多艺术类别，突出展现亚洲地区令人瞩目的社会历史文化。
自2005年入驻北京798艺术区起，阿拉里奥通过展示亚洲地区极具代表性的优秀艺术家，迅速成为中国当代艺术发展的重要枢纽。2014年8月，上海徐家汇衡山坊馆正式开馆，2017年7月迁址上海西岸，与来自中国和海外的艺术家一道为中国艺术舞台的多元性注入活力，继续作为中国当代艺术的先驱力量而存在。
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