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2024.7.13—2024.8.31
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艺术家依据画廊的位置特性和独有的内部空间结构，使用影像装置、热传感材料、人工智能图像、仿真肉身等媒介完成了五件新作，呈现出一个饱含威权宗教感的末世现场。但在此刻的末世现场，丁世伟认为仍存在弗兰肯斯坦式的物种与我们相伴，它虽没有那八英尺高的躯壳，但它无处不在，在人类神经末梢、皮下组织与意识形态里，等待你的召唤，随时出现，我们与它的沟通仅通过“腹语” ，这门语言也一直在变化。
画廊二楼入口处的小展厅构成此次展览的第一章节，艺术家假想了一场对插满气管的萨姆·奥特曼的末日“审判”，其粗大毛孔的肌肤截面不断隆起着被隐写的宣言。在下沉的主展厅中和带阶梯的旗台之上的第二章节，惧怖的单瞳注视着一个蓝屏色的、后人类世的革命遗留广场，几株真假难辨的苇蒲草在历史的缝隙中伪造希望。
展览中的角角落落——火光下的双眸、斩切的金属蛇身、六指的铁拳、轰塌的旗帜及解剖的纪念碑，无不使用各自的口腹语发出幽灵萦绕锁颈前的卢德主义式低语。也许本杰明·富兰克林1754年疾呼的宣言早已成谶：Join, or Die，此刻，你若不成为幽灵，甚至你若不制造幽灵，那等待你的只有——死亡。
“腹语”在这里，会变成一种共识性语言，眼球的神经末梢说出了宏伟宁静般的震颤。
Hunsand Space (Beijing) is honored to present the solo exhibition of artist Ding Shiwei: "Specter’s Ventriloquism". The exhibition will open on July 13, 2024.
The artist has created five new works using media such as video installations, thermosensitive materials, AI-generated imagery, and simulated flesh, tailored specifically to the unique location and internal spatial structure of the gallery. These works conjure an apocalyptic scene steeped in authoritarian religious overtones. Yet, within this apocalyptic setting, Ding Shiwei posits the existence of Frankenstein-esque beings alongside us. Though lacking the eight-foot stature, these entities are omnipresent, embedded within human nerve endings, subcutaneous tissues, and ideologies, awaiting your invocation, ever ready to manifest. Our communication with them is exclusively through "ventriloquism," a language that perpetually evolves.
The small exhibition space at the second-floor entrance forms the first chapter of the exhibition, where the artist imagines a doomsday "trial" for Sam Altman, whose coarse-pored skin section pulses with a cryptic manifesto. In the sunken main hall and on the stepped podium of the second chapter, a single, fearful eye watches over a post-human, Anthropocene revolutionary remnant square, rendered in bluescreen color. A few indistinguishable reeds forge hope amidst the cracks of history.
Every corner of the exhibition – the eyes glowing under firelight, the severed metallic serpent body, the six-fingered iron fist, the crumbling flag, and the dissected monument – whispers a Luddite murmur around the neck, ghostly and persistent. Perhaps Benjamin Franklin's proclamation in 1754, "Join, or Die," has become prophetic: if you do not become a ghost, or even create ghosts, what awaits you is but death.
"Ventriloquism" here transforms into a lingua franca, the nerve endings of the eyeballs speak of a grand tranquility akin to tremors.
