Emotional Autonomous Region When Crypto Meets Funeral & Wedding Artist: SHI Ruini Curator: MIAO Zijin Jun 30 - Jul 23 2022 INSTALLATION VIEWS WORKS ARTIST 施蕊妮 SHI Ruini SHI Ruini 「How should we present an inappropriate opening ceremony? 」This is the open question raised when the exhibition was initially conceived. Ruini Shi and her team present two virtual platforms named "FuneralPlay" and "LoveCounter" investigating whether a better and more friendly interactive experience could be achieved by users attending digital funerals and weddings if blockchain technology reaches certain maturity. De-centralized emotional service operations simulate "X-to-Earn", a reward mechanism of blockchain game. Participants invest in FuneralPlay in exchange for souvenirs in memory of the deceased (Play-to-Earn); likewise, the mourning time invested in FuneralPlay could be exchanged for souvenirs in memory of the deceased (Mourn-to-Earn). Lovers who sign LoveCounter, an intelligent marriage contract, will earn love Karma for the time they spend together online, the properties they contribute and the interactions between the two of them to trigger user-defined life events (Love-to-Earn). Are the new game rules in X-to-Earn for quantifying emotions sufficient to express true sadness or love? Can proof-of-love be delivered for cryptographic transactions? Emotional capitalism supported by Web 2.0, and in particular the dating software, have further standardized and commodified emotions. Through monitoring data generated by users with the assistance of algorithms lockchain-based Web 3.0 empowers users to take back ownership of their personal data from tech giants. What FuneralPlay and LoveCounter, the two interactive websites launched by the artist as conceptual and de-materialized media, produce are performative situations in which diverse values co-exist. Inspirations for scene constructions derive from creators' surveys and sampling of the identities and free will of their families and friends. Such non-fictional and unquantified data of emotions hereby collected attempt to draw an alternative collective portrait of contemporary youth. If "emotional autonomous region", which exists in parallel with the governance of the state or religion, is reckoned as one of the mental options for alleviating faith crisis, survival guide for the future may include a strategy of disappearance. In other words, escaping from the omnipresence of big data and managing our digital footprints at our own discretion have become an increasingly imperative urge. Within a closed system, encrypted funeral and wedding offer pathways for vulnerable individuals to cope with force majeure. When we reconnect with the real world, an inappropriate opening ceremony seems more like a ceremony of care, a scarce material in the contemporary context. Text / Miao Zijin

錨點 1 Peter Jeppson b.1985 The work of artist Peter Jeppson will steal you away from your own reality and have you placed in a world of his own creation, complete with his irresistibly curious characters. Bubbling with texture and vivid emotions, Jeppson’s creatures put a new, strange twist on cartoons — as they are far from the cartoons you may be used to seeing on television. Instead, the artist paints his characters with complicated expressions that are not so easily understood, making them anything but one-dimensional. Jeppson’s characters are created not only two-dimensionally in paint, but are also brought into the third dimension in his densely layered and brilliantly peculiar sculptures. These somewhat humorous figures are interesting in a way that is just slightly off, leaving the complexity of the artist’s work at its surface. ​ Describing himself as self-taught, the artist's artistic path is very similar to many others: the beginnings of doodling led him into illustration/graphic design and then further into painting, which became what the artist has been doing for many years. He has always been fascinated by the figure, and when the artist began to work more in illustration, he practised drawing it regularly. According to himself, there is a fine line between the cute and crispy cartoons with dramatic expressions and the characters that give impressions of being more vague and complex in their state of mind, and he aims for the second one there. WORK OVERVIEW EXHIBITIONS ARTICLES ARTWORKS 錨點 2 EXHIBITION 0X0A8576.jpg DSC03998.jpg 錨點 3 Hidden Message Dec 24, 2021 - Jan 22, 2022 ART021 Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair Nov10 - Nov 13 2022 ARTICLES 錨點 4 截屏2022-03-05 下午3.30.00.png 截屏2022-03-05 下午4.35.21.png On the hunt for complex emotions @ArtMazeMag DEN GODHJÄRTADE KONSTNÄREN @ Artworks

Devra Fox Hannah Wilson Janes Haid-Schmallenberg Jochen Mühlenbrink Leo Park TANG Shuo Null Protocol Oct 7 - Nov 4 2022 A collaboration with Gallery Kiche INSTALLATION VIEWS WORKS ARTISTS 2d30f52c559d5eb4472673f1321ff94.jpg 微信图片_20220826115228.png 24835bccfb2fd48c2a1ceedea667493.jpg 微信图片_20220928152618.png a8897386141980554689795b6090d5e.jpg 小1.png Hannah Wilson Jochen Mühlenbrin Janes Haid-Schmallenberg Devra Fox ​Leo Park TANG Shuo Null Protocol features a selection of paintings by artists from different countries and regions. Though the subjects of the works vary, they are all teeming with a strong sense of spiritual introspection, which is rooted in the subtle equilibrium and interplay between their visual forms and the subjects. Through the artists’ respective signature ways of expression, they offer their vision and response to the conventional aesthetic rules and spiritual protocols inherent to modernist painting traditions. ​ Looking back upon the history of painting, a new period will always make the conventional rules from the past null protocol as they are no longer valid on artists with pioneering spirit. The artists featured in this exhibition, following the tradition of modernist painting on the one hand, attempt to revisit the aesthetic protocol of modernism in a different spiritual time and space. While unfolding endless imagination and their respective visual decisions, they also reiterate the profundities and possibilities of painting, a most ancient and traditional medium, and show people the exuberant vitality of painting as a tool to combat the alienation of thinking and rigidity. ​ Text. Yihong LIU ​ ​ Devra Fox The visceral and organic figures in American artist Devra Fox’s works are reminiscent of the notion of “betrayal of flesh”. If we associate her works with the “back views” or “mirror images” in classic paintings by masters like Rubens or Velazquez, we’d see the implications behind the bilaterally symmetric images, which could be seen as a metaphor of the multiple states of being, the split self and unity of humanity. Hannah Wilson Hannah Wilson, also an artist from U.S, imbues her paintings with a pressing sense of anxiety through the use of subtle colors and restrained brushstrokes. The somewhat spiritual texture of the work reminds people of shots of Hitchcock’s movies; and the restrained processing of shapes and tones sheds light on traces of the artist’s subconsciousness as she has made a placid and intriguing reassessment of the authenticity of concepts and forms of expression. Janes Haid-Schmallenberg German artist Janes Haid-Schmallenberg incorporates forces of creation, destruction and transformation into the intricately interconnected imagery through drastically distorted shapes, stretching, splitting and reassembling elements evocative of dueling to form a complex spatial context that highlights the emotional power dissolved in the space. Jochen Mühlenbrin Artist Jochen Mühlenbrink , also from Germany, resorts to haziness to create a sense of infinity within the painting frame. The rich and profound landscape growing out of two-dimensional space is disrupted by the traces of fortuity covering it, making the implicit images a symbol of concept. In this context, painting becomes an approach to explore and reflect on the trendy concept of “field”. Leo Park Swedish artist Leo Park’s small-sized pencil on paper works seem to be the reproduction of memories transcending time and space. In the meantime, the humorous and light-hearted composition reveals an extraordinary sense of imagination and vision reminding people of Dali. The unique and powerful forms open up a brand new aesthetic experience for the viewers. ​ ​ TANG Shuo Chinese artist TANG Shuo presents an exploration into the secrets of the nature, which could also be reckoned as an attempt to make peace with oneself. Beneath the somewhat strange landscape there lies a spiritual space of uncertainties. The way he deals with spatial composition and light and shadow shows profound understanding and great mastery of classical techniques. Devra Fox Hannah Wilson Janes Haid-Schmallenberg Jochen Mühlenbrin Leo Park TANG Shuo

INTERVIEW ​ Peter Jeppson DEN GODHJÄRTADE KONSTNÄREN @Artworks Peter Jeppson inledde sitt konstnärskap inom graffitikonsten som sedan ledde in honom på grafisk design och tog även vägen förbi illustration. Idag ägnar han sig mestadels åt måleri, och broderi. Peter har ställt ut i solo- och grupputställningar i Sverige, USA, Slovenien och Storbritannien. Hans verk är fyllda av välkända seriekaraktärer men istället för att försöka göra en så verklighetstrogen avbildning av dessa skapar han snarare “dåliga kopior” men som adderar nya drag och andra ansiktsuttryck eller sinnesstämningar än vad man är van vid att se hos karaktärerna. Read More

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22 Sep - 28 Oct, 2023 Entropy and Hidden Force Tianshu Zhang INSTALLATION VIEWS WORKS ARTISTS The theme of the exhibition focuses on the relationship between solid form and continuous dynamics between painting and consciousness. Entropy is compared to the arrow of time, an eternal movement, and hidden force is an unpredictable infinite combination that exists in a single form and in the same field. ​ The night is dropping, and the moon in the dark blue fog is casting its gaze equally on each nest. This is not an exotic land that you break into while escaping reality. It is the gravel buried in the soil of the ancient city. Hunting among the huge choices, the image is peeled off from the undefined shell, after the solid state, it starts to rebuilding within the vortex and the deriving from the waves. The distant past is essentially inaccessible to us. The details between the traces of oil and pastel are imagined as corresponding carriers, and the images created by the artist flow into the depths of our own time and conscious through our gaze. Faced with such a combination and arrangement of works in the space, it is difficult for us to ignore the narrative energy of the images, or in other words, they are crossing the canvas and our bodies while being embodied. Rather than saying that they are evidence of illusion, it is better to say that what the artist is trying to create is the fleeting golden light of the holy fire outside the city wall. The brushstrokes sliding between the media determine the reproduced image, leaving us like flames and leaving us. Together, we move to the next scene in our consciousness. The sequence of pictures contains a structure from dark to light, volume and visual interweaving and interpenetration. The process of creating images that are not controlled by the target consciousness is to constantly explore aspects of oneself in media and images, and the feelings triggered when viewing the works also come from this. “I will spend my whole life trying to understand the operation of memory. Memory is not the opposite of forgetting, but the inner connection of forgetting.” (Chris Marker, Sans Soleil) Under this mechanism, the relationship between the hand and the canvas, inner contradictions and desires merge into the same space. What is urgently needed is the right to tamper with the prophecy. The artist fixes the unfixable things and turns the abandonment into a still life falling into the dust. No more words are wasted describing the storm, the hunter will keep such things to themselves, and the best part of it is the close juxtaposition of survival and disappearance and the unique experience of passing perpendicular to it. Texts: Tingzhi Zhang ​ ​ Tianshu Zhang is a painter now living and studying in New York. Her semi-abstract figurative paintings are often inspired by dreams, memories, fantasies and all forms of stage performance, rendered with traditional painting and drawing materials. With distorted, exaggerated human bodies and mysterious spaces in her paintings, Tianshu continually explores the themes of human nature, emotions, and desires. She got her Bachelor of Fine arts degree from The University of Texas at Austin in 2017 and came to New York to obtain her Master degree in fine arts at the School of Visual Arts in 2021.

INTERVIEW ​ Peter Jeppson On the hunt for complex emotions @ArtMaze Magazine 10 January 2018 The work of artist Peter Jeppson will steal you away from your own reality and have you placed in a world of his own creation, complex with his irresistibly curious characters. Bubbling with texture and vivid emotions, Jeppson's creatures put a new, strange twist on cartoons - as they are for from the cartoons you may be used to seeing on television. Instead, the artist paints his characters with complicated expressions that are not so easily understood, making them anything but one- dimensional. Jeppson's characters are creased not only two- dimensionally in paint, but are also brought into the third dimension in his densely layered and brilliantly peculiar sculpture. These somewhat humorous figures are interesting in a way that is just slightly off, leaving the complexity of the artist's work at its surface. Read More WORK OVERVIEW EXHIBITIONS ARTICLES