Encounter art in Shenzhen OCT Harbour, a hyper-realistic environment - Xiang Jing participates in group show “Unrealities in the reality - The intellectual dimension of daily life”

2016-04

The group show opens at Boxes Art Space of Shenzhen OCT Harbour on April 2nd 2016. This exhibition is curated by Xia Jifeng and co-organised by Boxes At Space and Hive Centre for Contemporary Art.

In total, 28 artists participate in this exhibition, and their works are in the form of painting, sculpture, installation, contemporary ink, etc. This large- scale art project is presented in two parts at Shenzhen OCT Harbour, a high-end shopping centre in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province. One area is a standard exhibition hall of over 300 square meters. Another part is 18-cubic-meter exhibition boxes scattered throughout the shopping centre, totaling at 15 of them.

This exhibition attempts at implanting the seemingly “unreal” artworks into a “hyper-real” environment such as a luxury shopping mall, to bring up the discussion on the distance between art and commercial products. To some degree, the exhibition is a presentation of the intellectual dimension of their daily art producing process, but also an examination on the intellectual dimension of daily life of the viewing public. Obviously this is an interactive and two-way process. Apart from showing Chinese contemporary art in the making, the exhibition also explores the intervention of contemporary art into our “reality”, the depth of its possibilities and the arising paradox.

The End (I) (2005) by Xiang Jing is shown in one exhibition box in the exhibition.