志韦 Wei Zhi ( b.1997 )

Photo: Courtesy of Artist Studio

1997年生于北京,2019年毕业于牛津大学罗斯金艺术学院,目前工作生活于上海。

童年的遗留之物浸润了志韦的创作。其作品多由层层叠加的织物与绘画构成,编织了这一重要时期独有的符号体系:一个在学习、成长中经历平庸却又真实强烈的创痛的时期--即从拥有可能性的早期童年同化到一个更加惯例、规范的社会框架的历程。然而,这也是盈跃着玩乐和想象力的时期,这些作品也尝试着引导我们相信,摆脱、避开那些所谓的陈规范式是可能的。志韦将其家族生意中的面料--即ta成长过程中熟悉的格子图案,一种性别化、规范化的图案--重新转化为各式形象的角色。因此,“ta们”代表了一种新的生活模式,亦是一种创作的结果:作品成为了艺术家的某种外延替身,仿佛其可以滋养自身并获得独自的生活。


Born in Beijing in 1997. She graduated from Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford in 2019 and currently works and lives in Shanghai.

The legacy of childhood permeates Zhi Wei's work.The artist's weaves through their works-mainly layering textile and painting-the symbology of this formative period, one tainted by the at once banal and intensely real trauma of learning, growing up, assimilating from the possibility of early childhood into convention, more normative social frameworks.It is, however, also a period of play, and the imagination, the work might lead us to believe, can conjure up something that escapes convention, that skirts what might otherwise be possible. Zhi wei reworks the fabrics of their family's business, the familiar plaid patterns that coloured their early life-which is a type of pattern that is also gendered, normative-into their characters. Ass such, they become new models for living, substitutes for the artist that can themselves be nurtured and go on to live their own lives.

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