展期 Period：
2024.7.27—2024.9.14
艺术家 Artist：
吕岩 Lv Yan、吴尚聪 Wu Shangcong、萧文杰 Siu Man Kit
地点 Venue：
前言 Introduction：
香格纳北京将于 2024 年 7 月 27 日推出三人展《临时有事》，呈现来自艺术家吕岩、吴尚聪和萧文杰的作品。
“有事”是一种“临时性”的中国式语态，是与当下社会形式的一种互文，由一个个突发“事件”组合排演，形成某种怪诞的情景剧场；“有事”也代表一种时间的伯格森形式，正在经验的一切像在经过一场剧场的走板，再回到荒诞性里，文本在此成为一种特别不能回到意义的“临时”。
在今天的艺术家们所身处的语境中，长期持有的美学、政治、经济和生态标准变得越来越无关紧要，因此对这些已摇摇欲坠的标准形式的质疑，自然成为绘画里重新出现的趋势。本次展览的三位艺术家吕岩、吴尚聪和萧文杰，都不约而同地强调作品的“物质性”，这并非传统绘画的结果或者艺术史的审美，而是艺术家工作的停止本身的物质性。其中不被定义的、中断性的痕迹，是被剪径后的“那一段”的呈现，绘画上更多是一种理解式解构性的残留。
ShanghART Beijing will present a three-person exhibition titled "Provisional Matters" on 27 July, 2024, featuring works by artists Lv Yan, Wu Shangcong, and Xiao Wenjie.
The Chinese phrase "you shi" ( 有 事 , "having matters") represents a form of "provisional" Chinese linguistic expression, intertextually linked with contemporary social structures. It is composed of a series of sudden "incidents" that, when combined and rehearsed, create a kind of grotesque situational theater. "You shi" also embodies a Bergsonian concept of time, where all that is being experienced appears to undergo a theatrical out-of-tune before returning to a state of absurdity. The text here becomes a particularly "provisional" entity that is especially resistant to returning to meaning.
In the context inhabited by today's artists, long-held aesthetic, political, economic, and ecological standards have become increasingly irrelevant. Consequently, the questioning of these precarious standard forms has naturally re-emerged as a trend in painting. The three artists in this exhibition—Lv Yan, Wu Shangcong, and Xiao Wenjie—unanimously emphasise the "materiality" of their works. This is not the result of traditional painting or art historical aesthetics, but of the cessation of the artist's work itself. The undefined, interruptive traces within are presentations of "that segment" after being truncated, leaving on the painting a kind of deconstructive residue of understanding.
