SELECTED WRITINGS
SHEN LING RECORDS THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE TIMES
Dec 2022
The albums almost function as the artist's diary, as a sequence of hazy silhouettes delineated by improvised strokes suggests the passage of time and beckons viewers to walk back and forth. Folded over and over, the thin, rice paper creates a visual rhythm that removes certain spaces from immediate view while generating new, organic spaces.
'PRINCIPLE OF HOPE' AT INSIDE-OUT ART MUSEUM IN BEIJING
Dec 2021
The Inside-Out Art Museum attempts to translate its institutional mission into a curatorial gesture. But this embrace of the narrative of pluralism seems to reinforce the muddled fields of political correctness that define today's global art world. Of course, there could be a reason for this muddle. It is difficult to avoid discussing specific realities rooted to the context of the museum itself, after all. Under such circumstances, taking on a global perspective could be seen as an insurance policy. But in the end, maybe neither the world's realities nor our futures are shared, after all.
BETWEEN VERTIGO AND PERFORMANCE: A SENSORY CONFLICT
Nov 2021
We are at a particular time when hygiene is celebrated and therefore contact is frowned upon. And yet, Teoldi is now filling this tactile deficit within us. The exhibition title 'Sole negli occhi' refers to a moment of blazing sunlight incurring passing blindness. Here, the vertigo of staring into the sun is exchanged for the sensory stimulation of the ears, nose, tongue and body. At once erotic and holy, impassioned and intoxicated, the face of the saint reveals a moment when thresholds dissolute.
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Shanyu Zhong is Beijing-based. She writes, edits, and translates.