BANK金库项目空间欣然呈现陈若璠个人项目“风的敏感”，展览展出了艺术家自2023 年在挪威驻留期间构思的作品，合并探讨了环境危机与情感庇护的议题。
在位于北极圈以北的Fleinvær小岛上，若璠敏感地意识到大自然发生的巨大变化，海鸟在曾经为它们提供坚冰庇护的海面上无休止地盘旋。据估计，由于全球气温上升，每年有近 270 亿吨的冰从地球上消失。鸟类的现实作为一个预兆，投射着所有物种潜在的困境。
若璠从法国史学家阿兰·科班在《风的历史（La rafale et le zéphyr）》中的思考中汲取灵感，他将风描述为一种亲密而无形的力量，影响着人类的感知和情绪。风，正如我们所处环境的变化，这种 “嘈杂的空虚 ”深刻地影响着我们的内心状态。若璠在Fleinvær的经历作为一个镜头，探视了外部力量——即气候变化、自然灾害和社会不平等现象，是如何渗透到了我们的日常生活之中。她认为，人们内心的狂风暴雨，时常与周围世界的动荡产生共鸣。
艺术家在工作中
Artist at work
若璠通过跨媒介的方式，将数字媒体融入她的作品，让电子屏幕成为连接现实与虚拟的窗口。对她而言，这种融合不仅仅是技术的新颖性，更是在传达现代生存状态中的情绪微妙差异和脆弱性。随着数字媒介逐渐占据人们的生活，我们也面临着与自然和物理世界渐行渐远的现实。
无论是气候变化带来的物理影响，还是随之而来的情感和心理波动，若璠的作品为那些受到变化之风影响的人们提供了一个隐喻性的庇护所。融化的冰川和上升的海平面预示着我们所面临的更广泛的社会环境问题，也揭示出人类共有的脆弱性。相反，“风的敏感” 指向那些微弱的预警，它们往往引向更紧急的信号——如堆积的粉尘一般，只有在令人窒息的时候才会显现。
艺术家影像作品静帧局部
Still image of artist's video
BANK’s THE VAULT is pleased to present “shelter” by Chen Ruofan. Conceived during the artist's residency in Norway in 2023, shelter conflates engagement with environmental crises with emotional refuge.
On the small island of Fleinvær, located north of the Arctic Circle, Chen became acutely aware of the stark transformations in nature, where seabirds circle endlessly over a sea that once offered them refuge on solid ice. Due to rising global temperatures, it is estimated that nearly 27 billion tons of ice are disappearing from the planet each year. The plight of the birds is a prophetic omen that will eventually affect all species.
In Alain Corbin’s “A History of the Wind (La rafale et le zéphyr）”, the wind is described as an intimate, formless force that influences human sensations and emotions. Like the changes in our environment, this “noisy emptiness” profoundly affects our internal states. Chen’s experience on Fleinvær becomes a lens through which to explore how external forces—climate change, natural disasters, and societal inequities—penetrate our daily lives. The heart, she suggests, is indeed stormy at times, resonating with the turmoil of the world around us.
艺术家作品细节
Detail of artist's work
Through a cross-media approach, Chen integrates digital media into her work, treating the screen as a window that connects the real and the virtual. For her, this fusion is not merely about the novelty of technology; it is about conveying the emotional nuances and vulnerabilities inherent in our modern existence. As we increasingly engage with digital platforms, we risk becoming distanced from nature and the physical world.
Chen’s works serve as a metaphorical shelter for those affected by the winds of change, offering a refuge not only from the physical impacts of climate change but also from the emotional and psychological effects as well. The melting glaciers and rising sea levels symbolize the broader socio-environmental issues we face and remind us of our shared vulnerabilities. Reciprocally, “shelter” points toward faint warnings that can often lead to more urgent alarms—much like the accumulation of dust that only becomes apparent when we are suffocated by it.
陈若璠
Chen Ruofan
陈若璠1996年出生于湖北，⽬前⽣活⼯作于上海，拥有伦敦皇家艺术学院艺术硕⼠学位和纽约视觉艺术学院荣誉学⼠学位。她常通过绘画、装置、影像等创作方式，聚焦于⼈类情感于毫末处⽞机万变的更迭和流动，并细致⼊微地遴选、描绘寄托情感的载体，和其间微不可察的变化。流转于多层屏幕世界与肉身现实，她常将记忆与情绪缓存于事物之中，试图以此介入它们的生命曲线。而因她关注与“慢”相关的时空节奏和生态性状，这些事物的构建过程时常展现一种慢性的、无显著特征的、不致命的、不剧烈的、不属于明显侵犯与被侵犯的、惰性的、让生或让死的、待命侯召的状态。若璠将可编辑或编织的技术过程作为模糊虚拟与真实之间边界的有机方式，一方面将屏幕世界中的像素点视为肉身世界的组成基质，另一方面不将二者差异强加于观者。在过往系列作品中，陈若璠关注由自然与人相互构筑的地缘记忆，并将自身情绪注入其中，以此探索她与世界之间的微妙关系。
她的近期个展及个人项目包括：“慢钟”，Gallery Func，上海，中国，2023；“白桃”，宝龙艺术中心，厦门，中国，2020；“Property of Neutral”，Paper Gallery，曼彻斯特，英国，2020；群展包括：“编码物候”，北京时代美术馆，北京，中国，2024；“跨级社区”，油罐艺术中心，上海，中国，2024；“化身”，松美术馆, 北京，中国，2024; “意外之歌”，没顶画廊，上海，中国，2024; “抽丝剥茧”，新天地 x 尤伦斯当代艺术中心，上海，中国，2023; 阿那亚大地艺术节，河北，中国，2023；“非代理抒情”，逸空间，南京，中国，2023；“弗里兹博览会期间的8位中国艺术家”，Gallery Rosenfeld，伦敦，英国，2022；“Romantic Street Dance”，弥金画廊，上海，中国，2022；巴比肯艺术基金公开展览，巴比肯艺术基金，伦敦，英国，2021；“PROXY”，Cromwell Place，伦敦，英国，2021；“Media Art; reinterpreted time”，Saatchi Gallery, 伦敦，英国，2021；“低烧”，当代唐人艺术中心，香港，中国，2021；“接力”，元典美术馆，北京，2021；“相变”，西岸艺术中心，上海，中国，2020等。她曾参与K11艺术基金会x Art Review艺术家驻留项目，武汉，中国，2024; The Arctic Hideaway Fleinveer 艺术家驻留，博德，挪威，2023; 阿那亚艺术中心艺术驻地项，北戴河，2023；新天地 x 尤伦斯当代艺术中⼼“燃冉青年艺术家孵化计划“驻地项目“，上海，中国，2023等驻留项目。她获得的奖项包括：UCCA x 新天地艺术“燃冉”青年艺术家奖，上海，中国，2023；入围英国皇家学院2023夏季展，伦敦，英国，2023；入围英国伦敦 “新当代 ”艺术展，2022；Galerie Biesenbach “ART MATTERS 2 ”荣誉奖，科隆，德国，2020；国际雕塑中心杰出学生奖提名；当代雕塑奖成就奖，纽约，美国，2019。
Chen Ruofan currently lives and works in Shanghai. She holds an MFA from the Royal College of Art, London, and a BFA from the School of Visual Arts, NY.
Through paintings, installations, and videos, Chen focuses on the intricacy of human emotions and their ebbs and flows by meticulously depicting the carriers that support them and the imperceptible changes between them. Navigating between the multi-layered digital world and physical reality, she caches memories and emotions within her built objects, attempting to intervene in their natural trajectories. Her attention to ecological rhythms related to “slowness” often leads to a construction process characterized by a chronic, non-dramatic, non-lethal state that awaits activation.
Ruofan sees the editable or woven technological process as an organic way to blur the boundaries between virtual and real. On the one hand, she regards the pixels in the digital realm as the foundational matrix of the physical world, while on the other hand, she does not impose the differences between them onto the viewer. In the previous series, she focused on geographic memory constructed by nature and humanity, infusing her own emotions into explorations that probe the subtle relationships between herself and the world.
Some recent solo exhibitions and projects include: “White Peach,” Powerlong Art Center, Xiamen, 2020; “Property of Neutral,” Paper Gallery, Manchester, 2020. Recent selected group exhibitions include: “Encoding Phenology,” Beijing Times Art Museum, Beijing, 2024; “Super Community”, TANK Shanghai, Shanghai, 2024; “Incarnation,” Song Art Museum, Beijing, China, 2024; “Whispers of the Forgotten,” Xintiandi x UCCA, Shanghai, 2023；Aranya Plein Air, Chengde, 2023; “BAGT Artworks Open” at Barbican Arts Group Trust, London, UK，2021; “PROXY,” Cromwell Place, London, 2021; “Media Art; Reinterpreted Time”, Saatchi Gallery, London, 2021; “Carry-On,” Yuan Art Museum, Beijing, 2021. She has participated in several residency programs including: K11 Group X ArtReview Artist-in-Residence Programme, Wuhan, China, 2024; Artist Residency at The Arctic Hideaway Fleinveer, Bods, Norway, 2023; Artist Residency at Aranya Art Center, Beidaihe, 2023; "RanRan" Young Artist Incubation Program by Xintiandi x UCCA, Shanghai, China, 2023. She was awarded as “RanRan” Young Artist Prize by UCCA x XINTIANDI, Shanghai, China (2023) and Honor award of Galerie Biesenbach “ART MATTERS 2”, Cologne, Germany (2020), shortlisted by Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London, UK (2023), New Contemporaries, London, UK (2022), and nominated for International Sculpture Center Outstanding Student Achievement in “Contemporary Sculpture Award,” New York, USA (2019).
