On June 8, 2010, "Pink Utopia – Jiang Jie’s Solo Exhibition" was held in 798 at Beyond Art Space. The exhibition is from June 8 until July 8. Fantasia - Journey of Discovering Happiness is a non-profit art project initiated by Fantasia Holdings Group Co., Limited in 2006. One well-known artist is chosen by the project each year to accomplish an art program pertinent to the theme of happiness. The project is expected to become a contribution to the Chinese cultural prosperity.
On June 24th, 2009 the fourth Fantasia - Journey of Discovering Happiness project was launched in Beijing. The well-known artist Jiang Jie was the executive of the event, who would carry out her art plan Thousands of Faces and Thousands of Perspectives in the following one year. The plan includes a series of interviews of well-known painters, musicians, novelists, poets, film directors, philosophers and scholars, who talk about how their work is related to happiness.
Jiang Jie would like to present her findings and reflections during the discovery journey in the form of a solo show.
During the opening ceremony, the president of “Fantasia”, Pan Jun, artist Jiang Jie had a brief speech and at the same time the attending people in the project were the following artists Zhang Xiaogang, Wang Guangyi, Yu Hong, Xiang Jing, the poet Zhai Yongming, Xi Chuan, Ouyang Jianghe, director Meng Jinghui, composer Guo Wenjing, writer Li Tuo, Li Rui, Ge Fei, scholar Yin Jinan and other cultural people attended the opening of the exhibition.
Jiang Jie is a female artist who mainly does sculptures and installations, she reflects her practical problems with attention and studies. Respectively, in 2009 she won the "2009 Arts People Martell extraordinary Award" and the "2009 Annual Fashion COSMOPOLITAN Women Award", while her works have also have been at the Fukuoka Art Museum, Singapore Art Museum collection and have been showed in other countries.
The Exhibition "Pink utopia" at Beyond Art Space is after 2006 Jiang Jie’s first Solo Exhibition. In this exhibition there are installations and documentary interviews on display, which reflect Jiang Jie’s understanding and attitude.
In the gallery’s first half there are interviews of the participants in the project of the Journey of Discovering Happiness. Elsewhere, there are pink silk bags that are placed on the ground which forces the audience to step on them and think during the process.
In the second half there is a completely different atmosphere of a pink dream which is created by the artist to make an attractive color. The artist decorated the gallery with pink silk bags filled with black tiles. When the audience is standing and looking down from the high stairs, the roof ornamented with pink silk makes the place filled with Utopian romance. Under each tile, there is a story and a piece of memory. It reflects happiness, cheer, difficulty or sorrow. All of them are vividly recorded by the titles in the pink bags.
