MadeIn Gallery is pleased to present “The Revenant”, a dual-artist exhibition of Shen Xin and Su Yu-Xin in the Galleries section of Frieze Los Angeles 2024, featuring their signature paintings and installations. It will\u00a0showcase\u00a0the artists’\u00a0pressing concern as to how the interaction between nature and humans \u2014 particularly, different ethnic and\/or gender groups \u2014 may become the starting point of our far-reaching reflections and actions.<\/p>\n
With their installation, paintings, and publications, Shen Xin seeks to create affirmative spaces of belonging that embrace polyphonic narratives and identities. In Four Tracks, a webpage-based installation, four groups of Chinese railroad workers are gathered from across different lands and epochs.\u00a0The workers wonder which group brought the mosquitoes, though they slowly realize no one is to blame; mosquitoes inhabit all the lands they arrived from. Those from the past raise their voices, while those from the present are silenced.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, in Shen\u2019s latest oil paintings, the energy of what\u2019s perceived as connections of the interspecies existence, is borrowed to portray the creation of an image. The creation of each painting, born out of animistic understandings of the image \u2014 the concentration of magic, preserves traces of collective stories we inhabit, so that they can be told again. Stories of dying, nursing, capturing, landing, slicing and eating, are some of the branches that compose together the ecosystem of what wants to be told.<\/p>\n
Shen Xin will also debut\u00a0WINDE, their latest co-publication with Ali Van,\u00a0which\u00a0consists of poems and paintings born out of land based practices between life partners. Nestled between peat and peregrine, AX Archive,\u00a0co-created by Ali and Xin,\u00a0finds convergence in a foregathering of essential rhythms and returns.\u00a0Through in-place research, it engages practices for cooking, painting, performance, poetry, printing, and sound, with motion to record in contract with relational learning.\u00a0WINDE\u00a0is supported by MadeIn Gallery.<\/p>\n
Connecting her experience of identity politics between Taiwan and Los Angeles, Su Yu-Xin\u2019s mixed-media landscapes bear witness to the history of exchange between cultures and nature and project the painter’s role through wars and migrations, territorial invasions and restitutions, as well as the exploitation of pigments and their trade.\u00a0She collects, studies, and processes the color substances scattered on the earth\u2019s crust and then invents a new order on the painting surface through drawing, compression, and accumulation.<\/p>\n
In her large-scale paintings on view at Frieze Los Angeles,\u00a0the artist reflects on two localities of significance that respectively rest on the west\u00a0and east coast of\u00a0the Pacific Ocean: one is\u00a0the Su\u2019ao-Hualien Roadway in Taiwan, and the other is\u00a0the Central Pacific Railroad in\u00a0the American West.\u00a0Her landscape painting is a geological practice of rearranging plants, minerals, organic and synthetic matters, connecting and recollecting localities across continents that bear the weight of individual and collective memories.<\/p>\n
Through such an integration of boundary-crossing poetics, language performativity, and pigment politics, both artists bring our attention to the imperative calling of language, race, and ecology, thus investigating how art can be reconstrued as a vital mediating force in society.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":4930,"template":"","tags":[71,74],"class_list":["post-4102","fairs","type-fairs","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-suyuxin","tag-chenshen"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madeingallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fairs\/4102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madeingallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fairs"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madeingallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/fairs"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madeingallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madeingallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madeingallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}