OCAT Shenzhen is pleased to present Lu Pingyuan\u2019s solo exhibition \u201cTrapping Cooking, Cooking Trapping, It\u2019s a Lovely Life\u201d, featuring a series of site-specific new works. Curated by Wang Jinghan, the exhibition will be held at Hall B of OCAT Shenzhen.<\/p>\n
Spanning text, installation, painting, and sculpture, Lu\u2019s works are imbued with narrative and metaphor. Drawing inspiration from art history, classic literature, popular culture, and personal experience, the artist builds a gigantic world of fantasy homologous with reality to reveal the spiritual predicament of contemporary human beings and rediscover the potential for spiritual connection between people and the universe.<\/p>\n
In the exhibition, Lu displaces the imaginary and physical spaces and make them collide, constructing a field comprising multiple narrative relations. Taking the two dimensions of the gallery hall and the storybook, the exhibition will present a series of artistic creations inspired by the fairytale \u201cHansel and Gretel\u201d.<\/p>\n
In the story \u201cHansel and Gretel\u201d, a sister and brother, lost in the forest, are enticed into a candy house in a witch\u2019s trap and finally outwit the witch and return home. Lu extracts imageries from the story including children, family, candy house, cookie crumbs, and boiler, and reorganizes them into a new reality. Combining popular culture, personal experience, and the public’s real-life anxieties, he creates a theatre of polyphonic narratives parallel to the metatext.<\/p>\n
When launching the \u201cArcades Project\u201d, Walter Benjamin saw it as a version of \u201cSleeping Beauty\u201d \u2013 that is, a dialectical story of childhood. Through montage techniques, fragmented texts are connected and narrated in a surreal way. Like a prince\u2019s kiss, Benjamin tried to awaken the European masses to the truth of capitalist life. Similarly, in this exhibition, Lu dismantles a childhood story and produces a series of fragmented images. If the audience capture these randomly scattered images and bridge the gaps in between using their imagination, the exhibition hall will be transformed into a space that can summon stories. Lu wishes that stories may become the fuel for dreams and initiate a nocturnal adventure.<\/p>\n
OCAT Shenzhen will publish the exhibition\u2019s namesake artist book, which extends the exhibition in another dimension parallel to its physical rendering.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":7791,"template":"","tags":[21],"exhibitions_type":[8],"class_list":["post-7784","exhibitions","type-exhibitions","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-lupingyuan","exhibitions_type-museum-exhibitions"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madeingallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibitions\/7784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madeingallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibitions"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madeingallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/exhibitions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madeingallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madeingallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madeingallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7784"},{"taxonomy":"exhibitions_type","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madeingallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibitions_type?post=7784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}