Vernissage: 1st November, 3pm -8pm
Performance by the artist at 5pm

curated by Bérénice Angremy

“Ink Games” explores the metamorphosis of ink, its symbolic power and its cultural, social and political connotations, in a selection of installation, painting and performance work of Dai Guangyu dating from 1997 to 2008.

“Ink Games” is arranged according to theme throughout the succession of interior spaces: Landscape, Performance, China and Art. The common thread of these works is ink – not the only medium that the artist is skilled and imaginative in manipulating, but one that he is most fluent in working with and which is gradually becoming his ‘trademark’.

Works include the performance photography Picturesque Landscape, Landscape, Ink Ice and Geomancy, Ink, Ice, where Chinese characters drawn in ink on the frozen surface of lakes show that landscapes are ever changing yet that Chinese culture is at risk of disappearing; the floating Clothing that relate the art of love with ink paintings of small erotic scenes, hidden behind traditional painted Chinese landscapes; installation Hospice Care with babies nourished by dripping ink; New Calligraphy – Art Slogan which playfully criticises the soaring prices of art sales.

Dai Guangyu’s “Ink Games” reveals the world of a socially engaged artist whose work is reminder that culture is the history of memory and change.