AIKE is presenting the exhibition “通\道 exit”, the first part of the show has closed its curtain at Dangxia art space whilst “通\道 exit” is a shifting speed. Adopting theatre as a format of this exhibition, or exhibition-as-theater, the curator would break the everyday field of vision by presenting a multi-dimensional rotating stage/construction site. Unlike the process of wearing off in Beijing, four groups of artworks by four sets of artists will emerge in crescendo from poesis to techne to embodied space until the empty exhibition hall becomes a cantata.
In Yang Qian’s view, the “exit” embodies a faith in distorted space. Or, the passage from one space to another would offer a contrast, although such a spatial contrast would eventually return to her spiritual origin.
As such, her passage resembles a Möbius ring, going from front to back and back again in a continuous loop of self-consumption. These exhausted energies eventually lead to further distortions of space.
She embarked from the urban trauma, fled from her home, and returns to the self through this passage.
In a way, her soliloquy is the passage, the one within. Where does it all take us? I don’t know yet.
-Yowoo