无家可归 I Feel No Longer At Home At Home

2019/10/11 – 2019/11/17

S, M, L, XL, a book made by OMA（The Office for Metropolitan Architecture） talks about spaces. In its mixed literary forms, there are dictionary entries trying to define elements in contemporary life. Here is an example:

HOME

Between the houses of childhood and death, between those of play and work, stands the house of everyday life, which architects have called many things—residence, habitation, dwelling, etc.—as if life could develop in one place only.

(O.M.A. Rem Koolhaas and Bruce Mau, S, M, L, XL, The Monacelli Press, Page 776)

Metropolis such as London and Beijing can be regarded as projections of advanced forms of capitalism. Metropolis equals world. Lucky dogs can exercise their will to power, unleash the nature of consumption endlessly. However, a small group of people in this world enter into art schools, as if they enter into a refuge, an ideal home,

“as if life could develop in one place only.”

In this institution of home, emotion and management (we may also call it “household”) work together, under an intentionally loosened censorship system. This censorship at home is rather familiar to me: in my grandmother’s house, the order was written above the cabinet:

Tian(天Heaven) Di(地Earth) Guo(国Country, or Nation) Qin(亲Parents)  Shi(师Teacher)

This daily censorship regulates one to grow up as obedient children and grandchildren, to find his/her position in the established order.

This exhibition attempts to gather a few of us to imagine a softened system or institution, and how life can develop in it. The artists trace a rule or model of life’s development in the space of a room, an urban environment, countryside, or the digital realm,

as if tracing the way home. 

Artists: 何悠 He You / 黄釗  Huang Zhao / 姜山 Jiang Shan / 李佩芬 Lee Pei-Fen / 刘雪宇 Liu Xue-Yu / 王寅 Wang Yin