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2023.10.28—2023.12.2
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库比森画廊荣幸宣布与艺术家夕背Sonia Jia 共同呈现展览「触不可及」。本次展览为艺术家夕背 Sonia Jia的首次中国个展，作品聚焦在危险环境下亲密关系所暗含的复杂性。艺术家在创作过程中，以皮肤受到创伤时所留下的红肿和淤青为画面的主要色彩，引导观众切身体会画面中脆弱状态下的亲密关系（precarious intimacy）。本次展览时间为10月28日至12月02日。
展览标题「触不可及」是人们潜意识中对伤痕的小心规避也意指艺术家对于亲密关系的探讨。在一些危险环境下，人们的关系存在着一种似是而非的矛盾感——— 个体间的边界消逝，并取而代之为因共同抵抗外部危险因素而产生非血缘的亲密关系。艺术家受到《不稳定的亲密关系》一书的影响“不稳定的亲密关系代表了作为生存时的某种联系、关怀与团结，并使得人们关注那些造成不稳定的力量——持续的经济、社会和政治所带来的不安全感。” 矛盾关系中的二者彼此间似乎触不可及，但因人类特有的情感而重新变得亲密。
伤痕似乎是皮肤在受到伤害时的一种语言表达，这些伤痕是如影随形的羁绊，一旦产生便会伴随人们一生，从身体皮肤转移到记忆中。艺术家起初是从自身记忆里的“伤痕”开始，慢慢发现此种环境带来的危险关系不仅作为个体存在；纵观历史，也曾有无数受到过战争迫害的个体。艺术家以此类历史题材的电影为灵感，以蒙太奇的表现形式将人物聚焦置一处，例如作品「触感碎片II」中，两位人物依偎在一起簇拥着一位孩童，画面像皮肤的颜色，青色的斑驳宛如淤青一般。艺术家在创作中并未选择油画厚重的传统创作形式，而是参照国画以层层晕染叠加的方法，使得画面有一种缥缈陈旧的往事之感。淤青与伤痕慢慢会消退遗忘，艺术家希望以绘画的形式将此封存于画布上。
同时受到巴塔耶对于“无用功”这一概念的影响，艺术家将生活中的非理性时刻，例如，不清晰的梦、放纵、凝视等以叙事化的方式进行记录，当观众观看时作品中的时间似乎在流逝。除此之外巴塔耶对于生命的诠释也暗含其中，“生是一种不断寻求爆发的汹涌的运动。” 真正的新生是新旧交替下的轮舞。艺术家通过自己的创作重建这些记忆并赋予其新的生命。尽管艺术家所表达的内容充满不安，但在此之下，艺术家更为强调的是亲密关系中的共生与团结的出现更为难得可贵。淤青与伤痕愈合之后，皮肤会获得新生。人们所遇到的伤害并不会永远成为悲观主义的产物，而是成为与人共生后万木萌发的力量。
Cub_ism_ Artspace is pleased to announce the collaboration with artist Sonia Jia’s first solo exhibition in China, 「Untouchable」. Sonia’s art practice is based on the complexity of the precarious intimacy. During the working process, artist uses the redness and cyan left by trauma as the major theme color on canvas, which leads the viewers walk into the canvas and feel the frail emotion from the paintings. Exhibition is from 28 October to 2 December.
Exhibition named as「Untouchable」implies that people subconsciously escaped from the harm and also relates to artist’s discussion of precarious intimacy. In some perilous environment, there is a paradox exists in contradiction of people’s relationships——the boundaries between individuals disappear and are replaced by the individuals who without any kinship. The intimacy emerges from joint resistance to external risk factors. Sonia is influenced by the book Precarious Intimacies, precarious intimacies represent forms of connection, care, and solidarity as survival strategies and call attention to the forces that produce precarity: continuous economic, social, and political insecurity. The two side poles in paradox relationship seems never intersect with each other, but encounter and bound together with the precious emotion in between.
Bruise and scar seem to be a kind of language expression when the skin gets injured. These scars shadowy bonded with people for the rest of life, both on the skin, and also as a piece of memory sinks into our mind. Sonia initially discovers “bruise” from herself, gradually, she realizes that the harmful relationship brought about by this environment does not only exist as an individual; throughout history, there have been countless individuals who have been persecuted by wars. Artist drives her inspiration from historical context movie such as The Flowers of War and uses montage in expression and attracts viewers eyes to a focus point with certain gesture of the characters. For instance, in painting Tactile Fragment II, two women embrace with each other and there is an infant in their arms. The painting color looks like skin color and the cyan dot seems like cruise. Instead of using western oil painting skills which layering with heavy paint, the artist chooses Chinese landscape painting method that covering with gauzy paint and layered it. This kind of technique interprets the painting’s narration. Even though, the scar and bruise will gradually fade away, artist uses the brush to seal them on canvas and pervades the painting with a sense of past.
Influenced by Bataille’s concept “non-utile work”, artist documents the irrational moment in life such as, hazy dream, indulgence and gaze in a narrative way. When the viewers stand in front of the paintings, the time is passing by. In addition, Bataille’s interpretation of life also implies that life is a turbulent movement that constantly seeks to explode. The inherent rebirth is the dance of revitalization. Sonia reconstructs these memories and rejuvenates them through their own creations. Although, the context expressed by Sonia is full of uneasiness, it is even more precious that the emergence of symbiosis and unity generated from intimate relationship. The skin will be revitalized when the scars and bruises healed spontaneously. Finally, the harm that people get through is not always the outcome of pessimism, but will rebirth as power of trees to sprout.
