Preface
“The Gravity Of Souls”, the subject of the exhibition, is not the force that governs the motions of heavenly bodies, as in physics.The reflection of the deep individual memory hidden in the artist’s works forms a cosmic system that concerns the artist himself.And each memory node is a celestial body in the memory universe, suspended in the memory universe.
The artist divides his works into three series, which are seemingly different from each other in terms of materials and themes, namely “Destiny”, “The melting of time” and “Trace“. In each work, each memory node has its inherent emotional attribute.These represent perhaps pain, perhaps sadness, perhaps desire, etc., different emotional forces, also form their own emotional gravity.However, the relationship between memory and memory is not a mutual pull, but a space-time distortion formed after interaction caused by various emotional forces.Each memory node occupies a different mass and interacts differently with other memories.In such space-time relations, they are constantly devouring and recreating each other.And it has been evolving under the space-time structure framework of individual memory, so that memory is constantly broken and recombined to form a real false world (memory star).The only real attraction we can feel in the work is loneliness.
The “Destiny” series of sketch works show the artist immersed in his own unbearable past, through the relationship of black, white and gray sketch, the artist shows the memory fragments of the burning feeling like the sun in the sketch works.All the time, the memories of the early years deeply hurt the artist himself.As an audience, what I saw was also my helpless past. Under the double superposition of spirit and vision, each similar emotional outburst was like a cosmic explosion.
In the series of oil paintings titled “The melting of time”, it is not difficult to find that the artist is beginning to get over the past haze.Constantly longing for the embrace and love of others, trying to break the shackles of loneliness.In the artist’s memory, such trivial desire for “hug” is a luxury. In the illusory picture, every hug is an insignificant cry of the artist in the river of individual destiny.However, it is precisely because of such a trivial yearning that the artist can go on step by step, constantly striving to seek the happiness he desires in his dream, so that he can stand above the world.
In the “Trace” series, artists use mulberry juice as the paint and match the ink lines with each other, making people feel dense and moving.The tangled picture relationship in each work is like the author’s constant retrieval of memory and a messy and helpless spiritual experience of facing the reality.
In these three different types of works with different themes, “memory” carries a whole set of thoughts of artists when they face their own creation, and “loneliness” is the most important emotion of artists in the individual memory universe.When can not find a good memory, loneliness may have become a good thing.But the universe is cruel, constant erosion, constant evolution is the eternal topic of the universe.In the complicated life of an artist, loneliness will eventually become the most insignificant gravity, pulled and changed by other celestial bodies that represent happiness.
——Mujun
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