Exhibition View
Clouds are forming on Northern Mountain, 2012, Installation (detail)
Theater, 2011, C-print, 100×164cm
Clouds are forming on Northern Mountain, 2012, Installation (monitor, slide projector, camera, negative photo album, desk, chair), 40×150×120cmCai Dongdong’s artistic practice explores visual resources between the East and the West in forms of theatrical play and performances and his final thought process is often presented in the medium of photography. The project at “Daylight Pavilion: Pulling to the left” transforms a photographer’s daily captured images into a source of the artwork: an archive of modern civilization. Photographers are one of the primary producers of images in today’s society, either the audience or themselves is willing to believe such modes of production and its outcome embody certain meaning, Pulling to the left poses skepticism to such meaning.
Cai Dongdong, born in 1978, in Gansu Province. Cai Dongdong is a recipient of the first prize of the 2010 The Third Terna Contemporary Art Award, in Italy.
| LIGHT PAVILION PROJECT |
“Light pavilion” is located located on the second floor of Taikang Space. As a newly found project space, “Light pavilion” focuses on supporting artists’ to realize their grand yet difficult project proposals and presenting their most recent creative experiments, with which to provide a platform for new voices among contemporary Chinese artists and their experimentations. Meanwhile, metaphorically refers to those who are exposed under daylight and their experiences in tumultuous times.
