展期 Period：
2023.4.1—2023.5.14
艺术家 Artist：
刘㔻 Liu Pi、刘晓冬 Liu Xiaodong、杨淞 Yang Song、郑维 Zheng Wei、张永基 Zhang Yongji、郑子豪 Zheng Zihao
策展人 Curator：
段少锋 Duan Shaofeng、渣克周 Zachariah Zhou
地点 Venue：
⇨展品清单 Works List
前言 Introduction：
“光”带有着甚深的符号学及人类学寓意。作为物质的光是文明历程的见证物，链接了人与自然。从遥远的神话传说的时代到漫长的东西方封建时代，光是神圣之物。工业革命以来光实现跨越式的变革，到今天当代大都会早已不分昼夜。从电视屏幕到互联网时代移动媒体的无处不在，光建立了现实世界之外的他异的宇宙。不同的像素排列成为了这些世界的入口，每个人都可以生活在屏幕之光内移动的桃花源中。同时，社会生产中光的演变也深刻影响到了视觉艺术的发展变化，从再现崇高感演化为当下甚为繁复的根茎……光勾连起艺术史中的今日之往昔，也变成一代代艺术家语言系统中现实的棱镜，折射出不同波长的“主义光谱”。
而光作为现代性的表征，它通过改变人们的观看方式从而改变了世界。印象派的艺术家们想必对此有深刻的体会，波普一代的艺术家亦是如此，1960年代的纽约如同一场梦境，在今天看来依然不真实。而千禧年之后的艺术家们更处于如露亦如电的拟真，他们早已经实现数字化生存，在虚拟现实，人工智能到来的时代，“Everything everywhere all at once”只是个小目标。
艺术生产模式虽然历经变革，但由艺术家的主体性衍生的灵光（或后灵光）无法被磨灭。因此OUTSIDER首场展览将以光之名，呈现7位艺术家分别从自身感知出发，主动奔向未知的创作。
"Light" carries a deep semiotic and anthropological meaning. As a physical entity, light is a witness to the history of civilization, linking humankind to nature. From the distant days of myth and legend to the long period of feudalism throughout the East and West, light has always been a sacred element. Since the industrial revolution, light has been transformed in leaps and bounds, to the point where today's contemporary metropolis already has no distinction between day and night. From the television screen to the ubiquity of mobile media in the Internet age, light has established heterogeneous universes beyond the real world. Different pixel arrangements have become the entrance to these realms, and everyone can live in the paradise that is moving within the screen's blaze. At the same time, the evolution of light in social production has also profoundly influenced the development and changes of visual art, developing from representing the sense of the sublime into the complex rhizome of the present... Light connects the present with the past in art history, thus becoming the prism of reality in the language system of generations of artists, refracting different wavelengths of the "spectrum of -isms."
As a manifestation of modernity, light has reshaped the world by changing the way people see. Impressionists must had experienced this, and so did the Pop generation, where New York in the 1960s was like a dream that still seems unreal today. The artists of the post-millennium generation are more in the position of simulation, where they have already realized their digital existence. In the era of virtual reality and artificial intelligence, "Everything everywhere all at once" is just a small goal.
Although the mode of art production has undergone changes, the aura (or post-aura) deriving from the subjectivity of the artists cannot be easily erased. Therefore, in the name of light, the first exhibition of OUTSIDER will present the works of seven artists who have taken the initiative to run into the unknown from their own perception.
