展期 Period：
2024.6.15—2024.7.14
艺术家 Artist：
贾弘毅 Edward Hongyi Jia策展人 Curator：
杨弘力 Yang Hongli地点 Venue：
前言 Introduction：
“我们对自然的追求，究竟是自然的本质，还是欲望中的自然？”
——贾弘毅
伯年艺术空间欣然宣布，将于6月15日至7月14日推出艺术家贾弘毅在中国的首个展“临时的造物主”。本次展览由杨弘力担任策展人，集中呈现艺术家新近创作的10余幅绘画作品。
贾弘毅的创作围绕生活经历、自然和人工的关系展开。年幼时，致力于七彩神仙鱼的繁殖和培养的经历，使贾弘毅很早意识到“人工”一词背后隐藏的权力关系——经过选育的鱼苗，彻底失去野外生存能力，成为供给娱乐和审美为唯一目的的消费产品。贾弘毅通过思考观赏鱼的存在，延伸至反思欲望和利益驱使人类对自然进行过多干预的行为，强调出人类在生态管理中所扮演的“造物主”角色。
“将自己视为自然外部的人类，习惯性地将自然作为可被利用的开采资源，他们最终是否会被大自然的永恒所吞没？”在贾弘毅的作品中，他试图创造并描绘传统科幻叙事与自然奇观之间的中间状态，通过画面中的几何图形暗喻水循环系统，将人和自然两者间永恒存在的对抗与共存，以抽象的表现方式呈现在观者眼前。他的绘画，充斥着人作为主体在面对他者及某种境遇时，因人性所自然生发的矛盾和内省，不乏理性且极具人文主义色彩地表达着自身对当下景况的质询和对未来不确定性的宏观追问。
"Is our pursuit of nature truly about the essence of nature, or is it about the nature of our desires?"
Edward Hongyi Jia
BONIAN SPACE is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition in China, Fleeting Creator, by artist Edward Hongyi Jia, from June 15 to July 14, 2024. Curated by Yang Hongli, the exhibition features over ten of artist's latest paintings.
Edward Hongyi Jia's work revolves around the relationship between life experiences, nature, and the artificial. His childhood experience in breeding and raising discus fishes made him aware early on of the power dynamics hidden behind the term "artificial" — the bred fish, having completely lost their ability to survive in the wild, become consumer products serving solely for entertainment and aesthetic purposes. By reflecting on the existence of ornamental fish, Jia extends his thoughts to critique the excessive human intervention in nature driven by desire and profit, highlighting the "creator" role humans play in ecological management.
"Humans, seeing themselves as outside nature, habitually treat nature as an exploitable resource. Will they eventually be devoured by nature's eternity?" In his works, Jia attempts to create and depict a middle ground between traditional science fiction narratives and natural wonders. He uses geometric shapes in his paintings to metaphorically represent the water cycle system, presenting the eternal confrontation and coexistence between humans and nature in an abstract manner. His paintings are filled with the contradictions and introspection naturally arising from human nature when facing other and specific situations. They rationally and humanistically express his questioning of current affairs and his macroscale inquiries into future uncertainties.
