APERTRUTH
a group invitational exhibition by Chinese Photographer
A DOU
YANCHU SUN
XIAOLIANG HUANG
YANFANG DU
MARC YANG
WEI ZHANG
BO HE
LANPO ZHANG
at Art Centre Bldg. – 2nd floor
Subhashok The Arts Centre, Bangkok
22 August – 25 October 2020
Opening Reception: 22 August 2020, 7:00 PM
As we move firmly into the era being called “Late Capitalism” we are seeing the battle between the values of truth being heavily contested. Truth wavers back and forth between surface and innermost takes on reality. Experiences ask us to take things at face-value, even using stereotypes to drive our perceptions. But when things get complicated, we tend to focus harder on the judgments that we make.
Modern culture has been on this trajectory since the 1990s when superficiality rose and hypervisibility became the new norm. Society wanted everything on view and exposure became capital. Our brains grew oversaturated with the bombardment of surface level culture in the form of entertainment, news, and other social distractions. Lately, as the ramifications of this age show themselves more frequently, we’ve been forced to look inside, trying to uncover a deeper reality.
Western culture has been deeply influenced by the social relation between generality and depth since the time of Plato. Now, we live in a unique moment in history, as the world is united by the models that were born of these ideologies, we are seeing the battle of truth and reality manifesting itself in many ways. Regional problems have expanded to have global consequences. The easy access to knowledge has made truth debatable. In the year 2020, society is undergoing a complicated trial with how it sees itself.
For this group exhibition, we see ourselves peering through the lens of 8 Chinese photographers, A Dou, Yanchu SUN, Xiaoliang HUANG, Yanfang DU, Marc YANG, Wei ZHANG, Bo HE, Lanpo ZHANG, each of them is exploring the forms of truth. We divided them into 2 groups, to explain and show the different perspectives of being.
The general nature of being is concerned with “how things are” or “how things seem”. The artwork in the first room present how artists’ lives are, through their doings and observations. It shows calm and nostalgic narratives.
The deeper nature of being is concerned with “how things ought to be”. The artwork in the second room reviews how we investigate the idea of life through our analysis over it. It evokes confusion and tension.
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