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Talk About Body 談身體

Talk About Body談身體

Chinese
English
Color
Sound
16:9
Single-channel Video
production year /
2013
duration /
03'45

The artist addressed in her own room, acting as an Islamic girl. She toke the article which was written by a physical anthropologist analyzing his own body as the chief source. He analyzes the body structure, physiognomy characteristic and blood lineage gene objectively in detail and fabricates a ceremony scene according to the authentic materials. He attempts to abandon emotion and focus on his own body, resist the over-spiritual confinement by traditional religion and try to make a balance between them.

由藝術家自己扮演的伊斯蘭女孩兒,在自己的房間進行了一場演說,她以一個體質人類學學者對他的身體分析文章為藍 本;後期配以一個老年女性的聲音詳細客觀的分析了自己的身體結構,外形特徵,血統基因,用真實的材料杜撰了一個儀 式式的場景。他企圖撇除感情,關注自己的物質身體,反思傳統宗教的精神禁錮,尋找「物質身體」和「精神身體」之間 的平衡點。

about the artist /

Tao Hui was born in Yunyang, Chongqing, China. He graduated from Sichuan Fine Arts Institute with a BFA in Oil Painting in 2010 and currently lives and works in Beijing, China. Tao traversed into the art of video and installation, drawing from personal memories, visual experiences and popular culture to weave an experimental visual narration, the focus of which is often our collective experience. Running throughout his work is a sense of misplacement vis-à-vis social identity, gender status, ethnicity and cultural crisis, prompting the audience to face their own cultural histories and living conditions. He won the special award of Contemporary Art Archive from Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in 2008 and ‘Art Sanya & Huayu Youth Award’ in Sanya in 2015. He also won the grand prize of 19th “Contemporary Art Festival Sesc Videobrasil”, and was shortlisted for “HUGO BOSS ASIA ART Award for Emerging Asian Artists” and International Competition sector of the KINO DER KUNST festival in 2017. In 2019, he is shortlisted for the inaugural Sigg Prize. Tao Hui has exhibited solo exhibitions at OCAT Xi’an, China and UCCA, Beijing, China. His works have also been exhibited and screened worldwide, include: Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France; MACRO ASILO, Rome, Italy; Pino Pascali Museum Foundation, Polignano a Mare (BA), Italy; Museum of Contemporary Art Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany; Belem Cultural Center, Lisbon, Portugal; The Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, Geneva, Switzerland; Contemporary Art Festival Sesc Videobrasil: Southern Panoramas, São Paulo, Brazil; Hong-gah Museum, Taipei; Kyoto Art Center, Japan; Asia Culture Center(ACC), Korea; National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea; the 4th Vancouver Biennale, Vancouver, Canada; Red Brick Art Museum, Beijing, China; Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China; Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, China; 11th Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai, China; Para Site, Hong Kong, China.

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