As the Water Subsides, the Rocks Emerge - Works by Dai Guangyu

Curator：Berenice Angremy

This exhibition, curated by French writer and independent curator Berenice Angremy, is a themed retrospective of Dai Guangyu’s work from the mid 1990s to the present. The selected works focus on the artist’s long-running exploration of the traditional media of Chinese ink-and-wash painting, such as ink and Xuan paper, and include photographic records of live performances and installations, as well as paintings and objects. The main reason for concentrating on these works is the hope that, through one artist’s persistent and unyielding championing of ‘ink-and-wash’, we will be able to read and interpret the submerged vocabulary of a cultural tradition that was once full of spirit and intelligence, that reached a peak and then declined to a state of zero creativity, a situation that only drastic action can remedy. Perhaps we will even catch a glimpse of a path that can lead this art form out of the creative impasse it has reached.

Is Dai Guangyu’s art practice setting an example that others will follow? Time will tell!

Exhibition Content: Installation,ink and wash painting,performance picture