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Rearview • Circumstances
by Space Station
Location: Space Station
Artist(s): ZHANG Lun
Date: 10 Dec 2011 - 7 Feb 2012

“Rearview circumstances: The World and Me” Zhang Lun solo exhibition will be presented by Space Station on 10th December 2011, and lasts until 1st January 2012. As her first domestic solo exhibition, this one will include art pieces she created over the past three years.

In summer 2008, Zhang Lun bought a MINI and drove it commuting between home and studio. She found, on her way, a distinct world that either flying backward or summoning ahead in her rear-view mirror. Accordingly, Zhang Lun kept having an illusion. “I’m not riding forward. The world is running backward. When I am moving in reverse, no one can ever catch me up.” Here, a paradox, different from usual experience, attracted her intensive attention: a world with opposite phase where reflection parallels reality, concretion collates with overleap. In a confined dimension, when Zhang Lun observes disappearing moments and flashing memory, she also notices the limitations of innate human ability in cognition and memory. Then, she unfolds the brand new meaning of life and way of experience in a montage, composing artist’s daily life, fleeting personal memory and subtle hesitation.

As reflection of the real world, “mirror” cuts across human memory and emotion with reality. However, it is meaningless to arrange these reflections in diachronic order or integrate them into unified visual structure. In a post-modernist view which excluding unity,  the particularity and uniqueness of every fixed instant would be emphasized. Space Station tries a new exhibiting layout in resembling crystal structure, which allows only one person standing and watching, and another one piercing through the “eight-edged wall” at the same time. Without settled route, audience can shuttle from one artwork to another. Mirror is the reflection people see when they undergo baptism and suffer in soul and spirit : it is spiritual. The exploration of causation and truth, belief and dream was reflected through inevitable image. When alternates spiritual nature between minute, dreamlike and ingenuous description, Zhang Lun also defines our flawed daily life. Yet no matter how trifling our life is, we all lapse into it.

Sometimes, Zhang Lun would repeat the alike instant happened at different moments. The circular context, advancing in diverse direction and transforming into colors like that of negative film, highlights her alienated taste and emotional self-consciousness.

The separation matrix orderly echoes each other by discarding time logic from the layout. Audience will probably keep converging impression when digesting subtle details of every piece. In this way, we can identify that individual experience, knowledge and illusion do exist in its own desire for truth and sincerity, even in our transitory communication with memory of the artist.

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