任何关系的发展都伴随着双向理解和相互牵制。本次参展的4位女性艺术家从自身经验和家庭记忆出发，以布面为载体，通过缝纫、印制、绘画等形式，勾勒出充满张力的画面。对她们来说，创作既是自我修复的过程，也是保持恒动的先决条件。
亲密 Close
布面油画
Oil on canvas
100 x 120 cm
2023
源于社会对女性这一角色的期望与约束，女红曾是家务事的重要组成部分之一。然而，随着二十世纪工业化和全球化的发展，以及因女性主义运动而推进的社会变迁，这些行为从不得不做的日常琐事摇身变为自由选择和自我意志的表达——甚至能够在宏观和微观之间来回跳跃。它们既可以是集体行为，成为“关系”和“网络”的构造途径，也可以是为个人营造的私密时空与安静一隅。
The development of any relationship is accompanied by mutual understanding and mutual restraint. The four female artists participating in this exhibition drew inspiration from their own experiences and family memories. They sew, embroider, print, and paint, using canvas as a carrier and creating images full of tension. In a way, making art is both a self-repair process and a prerequisite for maintaining constant movement.
Because of the societal expectations and constraints placed on women, needlework used to be an essential part of "housework." However, with the rise of industrialization and globalization in the twentieth century and social changes brought forth by the feminist movement, these actions have transformed from mundane daily chores into expressions of freedom and self-will. They can be collective efforts for social projects, formulating "relationships" and "networks," or build a harbour for an individual to rest before the next embarkment.
触摸 Touch
布面印刷及缝纫线
Digital print and cotton thread on fabric
50 x 50 cm
2023
在梁彦琦的动画新作《佛手》（Bergamot）中，佛手柑和人手从最初的彼此好奇与试探，到不断地对抗与交融，体现了相互依存却又渴望独立的母女关系，以及对女性自我意识的探索。与此同时，初为人母的王小皑（Eleanor Ai Wang）将她在演奏和绘画时感受到的律动转存到缝纫之中，在针线起落间，感受气息的吞吐。
忆昔线中
Reflecting on the day before, in thread
布面油画
Oil on canvas
121.92 x 152.4cm
2023
因其祖母对园艺的热爱，英国艺术家朱丽叶·阿尔托宁（Juliet Aaltonen）在伦敦与阿姆斯特丹生活期间，时常会在创作中穿插自然的元素。她视本次展出的帘幕式作品为容器，将祖母近年来因眼疾而荒废的园艺工具印在事先用她的双手上色的薄纱上，并加以缝纫，在斑驳中修复家庭记忆。刘佳琪则以相簿中父母结婚时的老照片以及个人情感经历为灵感，创作了“褪色”系列。她通过哈默修伊式的笔法叠加稀薄的颜料，用拥有细微色彩变化的画面来影射微妙的两性关系。
彗星 Vessel (the comet)
布线、平版印刷油墨、铁锈和薄纱
Thread, lithographic ink, rust and tarlatan
110 x 260 cm
2023
梦中人 Dream Lovers
布面油画
Oil on canvas
100 x 165 cm
2021-2023
正如人类学家蒂姆·英戈尔德（Tim Ingold）在《线之简史》（Lines: A Brief History）中所说，任何“面”的出现都由“线”所留下的痕迹组成，而在将这些痕迹拆解成线的同时，“面”也随之瓦解。因此， “线”所带来的流动、生机和可能性恰恰与不断前进、无法逆转的线性历史观相悖，由指尖所描画的生命路径反而更近似于略微着色的记忆：除却飘散各处的万千思绪，人们在持续的叠加、擦拭和修补中完善对世界的认知。
文/ 沈逸人
In Liang Yanqi's new animation work, "Bergamot" the interaction between the citron and human hand evolved from an initial state of curiosity and probing to constant confrontation and fusion, reflecting the interdependence and desire for independence in the mother-daughter relationship, as well as the exploration of women's self-awareness. Meanwhile, Eleanor Wang, who recently became a mother, translates the rhythm she feels when playing viola and painting into sewing, feeling the ebb and flow of breath in the rise and fall of the needle and thread. Inspired by family memories of her grandmother gardening, British artist Juliet Aaltonen often incorporates natural elements while living in London and Amsterdam. She considers the veil-like works exhibited in this exhibition as containers, embroidering and repairing the pre-used fabric, which is pigmented with her hands, and pressing a collection of her grandmother’s inherited iron tools onto the tarlatan fabric, through a process of gradual rusting. Liu Jiaqi, on the other hand, takes inspiration from old photographs of her parents' wedding and her personal relationship. Through a Hammershøi-style technique, she overlays thin layers of pigments, creating images with subtle colour variations to allude to the nuances in gender relations.
As the anthropologist Tim Ingold said in "Lines: A Brief History", 'It is through the transformation of threads into traces that surfaces are brought into being and conversely, through the transformation of traces into threads that surfaces are dissolved.' The flow, vitality, and boundless possibilities brought about by "lines" contradict the notion of history as a linear process, which emphasizes the chronological order of a chain of events and their irreversibility. Instead, the life path depicted by fingertips is akin to tinted memories: along with the countless scattered thoughts, we grow into a knowledge of the world around these paths through continuous layering, erasing, and repairing.
Written by Yiren Shen
梁彦琦（Yanqi Liang），1992年生于浙江杭州，本科毕业于伦敦艺术大学坎伯韦尔艺术学院视觉艺术插画专业，英国皇家艺术学院动画专业硕士。她的作品关注于探讨女性在日常生活环境中的行为特征，通过绘画、影像等媒介再现生活中的现实场景和真实感受。
她近期的展览包括：动画展映项⽬，Grafixx Festival，⽐利时，2022；“Dream Video”， ⻄岸艺术与设计博览会动画展映，上海，2022；上海斯沃琪和平饭店艺术中⼼⼗周年展览，上海，2022；动画展映项⽬，Grafixx Festival，⽐利时，2021；“Video Al PLAZA”,⻄岸艺术与设计博览会动画展映，上海，2021。
Yanqi Liang was born in Hangzhou, China in 1992. She graduated from Camberwell College of Arts, UAL with a bachelor's degree in illustration and received a master's degree in animation from the RCA. Her works mainly focus on exploring the behavioral characteristics of women in daily life, and reproduce the real scenes and real feelings in life through painting, video and other media.
Her recent fairs include: Animation Screening Project, Grafixx Festival, Belgium, 2022; "Dream Video", West Bund Art & Design Fair, Shanghai, China, 2022; 10th Anniversary Exhibition of Swatch Art Peace Hotel Shanghai, Shanghai, China, 2022; animation screening project, Grafixx Festival, Belgium, 2021; "Video Al PLAZA", West Bund Art & Design Fair, Shanghai, China, 2021. Exhibitions include: “Different world”, Tianwu Space, Shanghai, China, 2018; “Open Surface”, Dunxing Art&Design Gallery, Guangzhou, China, 2018; “The Expanded Designer”, Camberwell College of art, Wilson Road Campus,London, UK, 2014; "Parallel Cities", SafeHouse 1 & 2, Peckham, London, UK, 2014.
王小皑（Eleanor Ai Wang），出生于1994年，毕业于伦敦斯莱德美术学院，现居伦敦。她是一位主要从事绘画，同时涉及表演协作实践的艺术家。她探索从日常行为和例行公事中产生的内容，通过对图像的重复和分类，她创造了多个重叠的情境。王小皑考虑了她作品中的“表现力”，并鼓励建议它们展现动态。在作为古典器乐演奏家接受过训练后，她对表演者作为艺术家，或表演者作为音乐家这两者的对比心态感兴趣。
她参加的主要展览包括：（个展）Pentatonic Tale, MAMA, 10 Greatorex Street，伦敦，英国，2022；Wayfinding, News Of The World，伦敦，英国，2018；（群展）Synthesis: Delphian Gallery, Saatchi Gallery，伦敦，英国，2022；一双：新亚裔艺术家的双重系统，蜂巢艺术中心，北京，中国，2021；Delphian Open Call, Unit 1 Gallery，伦敦，英国，2021；The Artists Contemporary Atelier Emergence, Rise Art，伦敦，英国，2021；Pending, San Mei Gallery，伦敦，英国，2020；For the Many, The Chopping Block Gallery，伦敦，英国，2019；The Exquisite Corpse Project Show, Cell Project Space，伦敦，英国，2019等。
Eleanor Ai Wang (b.1994) graduated from the Slade School of Fine Arts in London, and currently lives and works in London. She is an artist who works primarily in painting but also involves a collaborative practice of performance. Exploring what emerges from everyday actions and routines, she creates multiple overlapping situations through the repetition and categorization of images. After training as a classical instrumentalist, she was interested in the contrasting mindsets of the performer as an artist, or the performer as a musician.
Her recent exhibitions include: (solo show) Pentatonic Tale, MAMA, 10 Greatorex Street, London, UK, 2022; Wayfinding, News Of The World, London, UK, 2018; (group exhibition) Synthesis: Delphian Gallery, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK, 2022; A Couple of: The Dual-mechanism of the New Generation of Asian Artists, Hive Art Center, Beijing, China, 2021; Delphian Open Call, Unit 1 Gallery, London, UK, 2021; The Artists Contemporary Atelier Emergence, Rise Art, London , UK, 2021; Pending, San Mei Gallery, London, UK, 2020; For the Many, The Chopping Block Gallery, London, UK, 2019; The Exquisite Corpse Project Show, Cell Project Space, London, UK, 2019, etc.
朱丽叶· 阿尔托宁（Juliet Aaltonen）1992年生于英国伦敦，目前在伦敦与阿姆斯特丹生活，英国皇家艺术学院绘画硕士。她的作品常与自然相关，并将帘幕式的作品作为容器加以缝纫，在斑驳中修复家庭记忆。
她近期的展览包括：英国皇家艺术学院毕业展，伦敦，英国，2023；连接未来，点点画廊，贝尔格莱德，塞尔维亚，2023；穿越，Safe-house Peckham，伦敦，英国，2023；无头之路，29 Marylebone Lane，伦敦，2023；感官历史学，Laurel项目空间，阿姆斯特丹，荷兰，2021；夏季工作，Bologna.cc，阿姆斯特丹，荷兰，2021；是的，再来！，帕蒂-摩根展厅，阿姆斯特丹，荷兰，2020；分离、对齐、凝聚，Laurel项目空间，阿姆斯特丹，荷兰，2020；外墙展，帕拉迪索，阿姆斯特丹，荷兰，2020；烘烤正常，劳雷尔项目空间，阿姆斯特丹，荷兰，2020；观赏性休息，桂冠项目空间，2019；修剪，月桂树项目空间，阿姆斯特丹，荷兰，2019；ADORN开放日，阿姆斯特丹，荷兰，2019。
Juliet Aaltonen (b. 1992) was born in London, UK. Currently lives and works between Amsterdam, the Netherlands and London, UK, and she received her master's degree in Painting at the RCA. She considers her veil-like works as containers, incorporating natural elements to restore family memories.
Her recent exhibitions include: The MA Painting degree show, RCA, London, UK, 2023; Connecting the Future, The Dots Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia, 2023; Moving Through, Safe-house Peckham, London, UK, 2023; The Headless Way, 29 Marylebone Lane, London, UK, 2023; Third Floor, Royal College of Art, Woo Building, London, UK, 2023; Third Floor, Royal College of Art, Woo Building, London, UK, 2023; Sensorial Historiography, Laurel Project Space, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2021; Summer Work, Bologna.cc, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2021; Yes, Again!, Patty Morgan Showroom, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2020; Separation, Alignment, Cohesion, Laurel Project Space, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2020; Facade Exhibition, Paradiso, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2020; Baking Normal, Laurel Project Space, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2020; Ornamental Rest, Laurel Project Space, 2019; Pruning, Laurel Project Space, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2019; ADORN Open House, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2019.
刘佳琪（Jiaqi Liu），1996年生于辽宁鞍山，2019年本科毕业于天津美术学院油画系，2017年3月至2017年8月赴意大利佛罗伦萨美术学院佛罗伦萨大学POLIMODA交流学习，2023年获得中央美术学院油画系硕士学位。
她近期的展览包括：荒草地QUICK x半山，东京，日本，半山画廊，2022；“我们”女艺术家作品展，半亩塘乡村美水馆，咸宁，中国，2022；5.63%一—中央美术学院2022届东北地区毕业生作品邀请展，大连，中国，2022；七月繁花当代青年画家写实油画展，2022；第九届半院优秀摄影作品展，沈阳，中国，2021等，个展”他｜她”，天津，中国，2018。
Jiaqi Liu was born in Anshan, China in 1996, graduated from Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts with a bachelor's degree in oil painting. From March 2017 to August 2017, she went to Italy for exchange and studied at University of Florence. She received her Master's degree in Oil Painting at CAFA in 2023.
Her recent exhibitions include: Huangcaodi QUICK x Banshan, Tokyo, Japan, Banshan Gallery, 2022; "We" Exhibition of Female Artists, Banmutang Rural Meishui Museum, Xianning, China, 2022; 5.63% - Central Academy of Fine Arts 2022 The 1st Invitational Exhibition of Northeast Graduates’ Works, Dalian, China, 2022; July Fanhua Contemporary Young Artists Realistic Oil Painting Exhibition, 2022; The 9th Excellent Photography Exhibition of Semi-Academy, Shenyang, China, 2021, etc. Solo exhibition "He|She" , Tianjin, China, 2018.
沈逸人，现居伦敦的艺术写作者、策展人，分别于纽约大学和牛津大学获艺术史学士学位和视觉、物质文化与博物馆人类学硕士学位。她曾就职于伦敦艺术科技公司，并任政府和企业项目的海外顾问。她也是Artnet中文网的编辑和独立撰稿人，文章曾发表于Artnet, Art Now, Art Review等艺术媒体和杂志。
SHEN Yiren is a writer and curator based in London. She graduated from New York University with a BA in Art History and the University of Oxford with an MSc in Visual, Material and Museum Anthropology. She worked at an art-tech company in London and serves as advisor for government and corporate projects in China. Meanwhile, she is the editor of Artnet News China, and contributes to art media and magazines such as Artent, Art Now, and Art Review.
