展期 Period：
2024.3.8—2024.4.7
艺术家 Artist：
地点 Venue：
站台中国当代艺术机构 Platform China Contemporary Art Institute
新闻稿 Press Release：
刘港顺个展《已经》将在站台中国当代艺术机构于2024年3月8日在A展厅呈现。是其继2017年《所有》和2020年《自选集》之后的又一次特别呈现。
这是一个不确定的时代，我们身处其中，似乎发现遇到的每一个节点都站在了路口，在来处和去处向未知张望，却仍然找不到一处锚定的点位。当无法从现实中获得一种必然，也许怀疑本身将成为真正的必然。而当这份选择落在刘港顺手中时，他将阅读作为过往经验的重构，成为他从未停止在精神中和世界磨合的一种途径。在试图进入他的作品时，或许我们首先需要理解他的工作方式。其创作内容与素材来源广泛，经历大量阅读、拆解、串联的信息在他手中汇聚。它们作为思想的游历与离群者，各怀心事的在共识中徘徊，却并未导向一个确切的结论。
刘港顺总是让自身处于一种进行时。他常常在作品中创造出一个停滞的时空，这一状态被持续的拉长、放大。其推导的方式并非是线性的，而是以一种弥漫的方式生成持续而常态的怀疑。这种悬而未决的状态是其作为个体所应对的手段，而我们却可以从中窥探到使其催生的语境——这个“已经”的现实。
阅读和画画是他的生活方式，其绘画的呈现却并未停留在对图像审美的沉淀与追忆，而是导向当下的心理状态的交织汇聚。无限更新的技术与不断颠覆的秩序，使得正确和标准变成了永被挑战的对象。我们既享受更多选择，也比以往收获了更广泛的困惑。变化以一种指数增长的方式，在某一个基点上如基因突变，以至于舍弃了追赶的必要性。
正如艺术家在作品《位移》的背部所书写的那样“你可以按照你想要的任何方式为世界着色，无论它是一个想像的领域还是一个真实的地方。”
The solo exhibition "Already" by Liu Gangshun will be presented at Platform China Contemporary Art Institute in the Space A on March 8, 2024. This is another special presentation following "All" in 2017 and "A Personal Anthology" in 2020.
In an uncertain era where every encounter seems to stand at a crossroads, we find ourselves constantly searching for a sense of certainty amidst the unknown. Doubt itself may become the true inevitability when certainty cannot be found in reality. When this choice falls into the hands of Liu Gangshun, he reconstructs past experiences through reading, serving as a means for continuous engagement with the world and the mind. To understand his works, we may first need to comprehend his working methods. His creative content and source materials are extensive, with a convergence of information dissected, reassembled, and connected through extensive reading. They travel as thoughts and outliers, lingering in consensus without leading to a definite conclusion.
Liu Gangshun always positions himself in the present tense. He often creates a stagnant time and space in his works, a state that is continuously elongated and magnified. His deductive method is not linear, but rather diffusive, generating ongoing and normative doubt. This state of suspension is a means for him as an individual to cope, and from it, we can glimpse the context that gives rise to this "already" reality.
Reading and painting are his way of life, yet his painting presentation does not dwell on aesthetic sedimentation and reminiscence of images, but leads to the intertwining convergence of current psychological states. The ever-evolving technology and constantly disrupted order have made correctness and standards perpetually challenged. We enjoy more choices yet face broader confusion than ever before. Change, in an exponential manner, mutates like a genetic mutation at a certain point, rendering the need for pursuit obsolete.
