展期 Period：
2024.7.13—2024.8.13
艺术家 Artist：
策展人 Curator：
地点 Venue：
蜂巢当代艺术中心 Hive Center for Contemporary Art（北京）
前言 Introduction：
蜂巢当代艺术中心荣幸的宣布，将于2024年7月13日在蜂巢北京空间的B、C两个展厅，呈现艺术家张铭轩的最新个展“游丝”。本次展览是继张铭轩2023年在蜂巢生成的首次个展后的第二次个人项目，将展出张铭轩的最新绘画作品以及行为实践。展览由策展人于非策划，将持续至8月13日。
一直以来，由身体所主导的行为（performance）构成了张铭轩创作的前奏。甚至在行为尚未发生之前，它已然存在于意识之中，潜伏于身体之内，诱发着绘画源源不断地诞生。张铭轩在混沌的黑色中开辟出属于女性身体的空间，身体在流淌中被轻薄而自由地勾勒，如同黑暗中被照亮的舞者，用无可替代的身体语言在静默中袒露着原始生命力的爆发。张铭轩塑造的人体远离平滑表皮与精致比例的世俗之美，身体在极致的折叠与延展中被褶皱填满，处处尽显曲折与崎岖。正在挣扎抑或沉思的身体在极致情绪的拉扯下甚至不时脱离现实人体的结构与比例，却奇异地激发了对于生命真实样态的体认与想象。
“游丝”作为展题意在捕捉以女性视角所开启的聚焦个体之间与母女相互关系的体察和审视，将血缘链接之下的微妙关系进行多重意义的探索与编织。张铭轩将自身的创作留白、敞开、邀请母亲进入，拖拽并挥洒着蘸满浓墨的笔刷抚过画面中无名的身体，滑向一个未知的终点。流淌的身躯与喷溅的发丝在画面中交汇，以双方各自的偶发与随机叠加而出的是生命的不可预测性，构成了现实生活中母与女之间相互参与、彼此建构、无限纠缠的镜像画面。
在一系列双人并置的作品中，多义与复杂的关系性经由身体悄然叙述。依偎、相拥、拉扯、相对，两具赤裸身体在一个有限甚至逼仄的空间中滋生亲密与信赖，同时亦暗涌着难以逃离与分割的牵绊与束缚。张铭轩精心把控着两者之间微妙的平衡，她在对身体的描绘中几乎消除了代际的差异，模糊了任何天然来自年龄、体型与力量上的分别，让可能存在于母女之间的对话和博弈更加平等而自主地发生。间离感赋予了身体与彼此关系既具体又抽象的状态，让无数个体不同的经历与处境得以投注其中、重新想象。
Hive Center for Contemporary Art is pleased to present “Drifting Bond”, a solo exhibition of artist Zhang Mingxuan, on view from 13 July to 13 August 2024 at Halls B and C of Hive Beijing. This exhibition will be Zhang’s second solo presentation after her debut at Hive Becoming in 2023. The show features her latest paintings and performance practices and is curated by Yu Fei.
Performance, led by the body, has consistently served as a prelude to Zhang Mingxuan’s practice. Even before the performance takes place, it is already present in the consciousness, incubating within the body and evoking the continuous creation of paintings. Zhang Mingxuan breaks out the space dedicated to the female body in the darkness of chaos, where the body is delicately and flexibly outlined in the flow, just like a dancer illuminated in the dark, revealing the eruption of vitality in silence with irreplaceable body language. The human figure portrayed by Zhang departs from the mundane beauty of smooth skin and refined proportions, it is filled with pleats and wrinkles in extreme folding and stretching, displaying twists and turns and unevenness everywhere. Sometimes, under the tension of extreme emotions, the struggling or contemplating body is even detached from the structure and proportion of the real body, yet it oddly stimulates the recognition and imagination of the real appearance of life.
The title of the exhibition, “Drifting Bond”, intends to capture the observation and scrutiny of the relationship between individuals and mother-daughter interactions from a female perspective, exploring and weaving the nuances of relationships linked by bloodline in multiple significance. Zhang Mingxuan left her work blank and open, invited her mother in, and dragged and splashed the brush dipped in thick paint across the anonymous bodies in the painting, sliding towards an unknown destination. The fluid bodies and the spattered hair intersect in the picture, with the unpredictability of life superimposed by their respective incidental occurrence and randomness, comprising a mirrored image of the mother-daughter relationship in reality that involves reciprocal involvement, mutual construction, and endless interdependence.
In a series of works that juxtapose the pairs, the multiplicity and complexity of relationships are quietly narrated through the body. Snuggling, embracing, pulling, and confronting, the two nude bodies nurture intimacy and trust in a limited and even cramped space, while simultaneously harbouring bonds and restrictions that are difficult to escape and sever. Zhang Mingxuan carefully balances the subtlety between the two, virtually removes any intergenerational differences in her representations of the body, and obscures any natural distinctions of age, physique, and strength, creating a more egalitarian and autonomous dialogue and exchange that might exist between mother and daughter. The sense of separation imparts both concrete and abstract states to the body in relation to each other, thus, the different experiences and situations of countless individuals can be incorporated and reimagined.
