Collage 27
Yolanda Y . Liou
C type print
17.6x11.7 in
Edition of 6 + AP
2020
Oxalis Under Full Moon
Yage Guo
Tempura and oil on panel
25x30 cm
2021
The Feast, Outside
Yushi Li
C-type print, framed with museum glass
105x130 cm
Edition 1/3 + 2 AP
2020
相反的对立面就像20世纪的社会批评家Edward Said在他的书，东方主义(Orientalism)中提到两个概念：xenophilia，对异域东方世界充满幻想和迷恋；和xenophobia，对未知的东方充满恐惧和敌意。而这个展览语境里的xenos，是于Said观点背后的殖民主义的语境中抽离开的。xenos原义是希腊文里未知的/陌生的/外国的。
你需要通过寻找未知来确认已知，未知代表了佛洛依德的理论里人大脑里的潜意识，Xenos就是呈现了我们的意识里的潜意识。他们通过梦境变成肉眼可见的图片和印象，和我们记忆里真实发生的世界穿插著，这种存在于第三空间的记忆影子。
起源于上个世纪初的艺术运动达达主义和超现实主义，是从神经学和心理学的发展衍生而来-以佛洛伊德的为首的维也纳神经学家开始关注人类的心理活动，因此引发了艺术家在视觉艺术领域里探索和潜意识的有关的话题。Xenos展示了三位艺术家的作品 - Yolanda Y Liou 刘语柔 b.1990，Yage Guo 郭雅格 b.1998，和 Yushi Li 黎雨诗 b.1991。
Xenos的展览有三层含义，潜意识和旅欧的华人身份。又因为全为女性艺术家的视角，给展览增加了另外一层富有当代性的含义。
In his book Orientalism, Edward Said, the 20s century social critic talks about the two opposites sides: xenophilia, which is the obsession and fantasy towards the extotic east; and xenophobia, which is the fear towards the eastern culture. Xenos in the context of this exhibition is drawn away from the context of colonialism behind Said’s point of view. Xenos here literally means the unknown / unfamiliar / foreign in Greek.
You need to confirm the known by looking for the unknown. The unknown represents the subconscious mind in the human brain in Freud's theory. Xenos is the presentation of the subconscious in our consciousness. Through dreams, they become visible pictures and interspersed with our impressions of the real world in our memory. It’s shadow of memory that exists in the third space.
The art movements Dadaism and Surrealism, which originated at the beginning of the last century, were derived from the development of neurology and psychology - Vienna neuroscientists, headed by Freud, began to pay attention to human psychological activities, so It triggers artists to explore topics related to the subconscious in the field of visual art. Xenos presents works by three artists - Yolanda Y Liou (b.1990), Yage Guo (b.1998), and Yushi Li (b.1991).
Xenos' exhibition has three meanings, the subconsciousness, the European Chinese identity, and due to the exhibiting of all female artists, it adds another feminist layer to its contemporaries.