Since the beginning of Taikang Space's establishment, it has been continuously keeping an eye on photography and researching it, as well as presenting the historical pattern and frontier works of Chinese photography art through a series of case studies and exhibition projects.
The theme of this exhibition, "La Chambre Claire", borrows the title of a famous work by Roland Barthes that discusses photography on the basis of his own emotive experiences. By using a classic word like this, or in other words, a "fixed" word like this, to be the theme, it is indeed easy to lead the audience's anticipation and imagination towards the content or form of images, but it also suggests some sort of possibility to create a fresh exhibition pattern through saluting Barthes.
When photography is applied to art or other scientific categories, according to all sorts of technical conditions and function categorizations (including “Art Photography”), it is always defined within a distinct border. The discussion of photography by the exhibition "La Chambre Claire" completely abandons these borders and suspends between the grammar and creation of photography. Photography is no longer an ultimate medium or a form of work; it has become the material of the realization process of the work or one of the elements that form concept. This is an exhibition without photographs but the phantom of photography is everywhere to see. The five participating artists of "La Chambre Claire" are well-known because of their consistent creations of experimental works and explorative practices in Chinese contemporary art circle. Their creations do not rigidly adhere to a certain medium, which makes possible the realization of the exhibition "La Chambre Claire".
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Liu Wei's Work -
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Zheng Guogu, The Line In Front of MoMA’s Entrance, 2008-2009, 180X300cm, Ink on silk -
Wang Yuyang, Let There Be Light, 2012, 10x14x16cm, Camera, programmable control panel, transformer -
Liu Wei, As Long As I Can See No.4, 2006, Installation -
Liu Chuang, Work 15#, 2012, Dimension Variable, Mixed Media -
Zhang Liaoyuan, A4 and A4 and A4, 2012, Dimension VariableInstallation
La Chambre Claire
2012.04.07 - 2012.06.02
Artist(s)：Liu Chuang, Liu Wei, Wang Yuyang, Zhang Liaoyuan, Zheng Guogu
Curator(s)：Tang Xin, Su Wenxiang, Xu Chongbao
2017
- Light Pavilion Project / Ce. Zhenhao: Fong Fo Film Studio
- Drawing Pogo
- Light Pavilion Project / Jiu Jiu: Fantastic Grounds - Tomorrow
- Light Pavilion Project / Good Painting
- Portrait Hot: Taikang Photography Collection
2016
- Taikang New Generation Curator Program / Toward the Emergence of Resistance
- Light Pavilion Project / Liu Zhangbolong: La Gaya Scienza
- Centennial Presents in Return: Exhibition of Alumni Donation from Chen Dongsheng and Li Yifei
- Light Pavilion Project / Wang Tuo: A Little Violence of Organized Forgetting
- Light Pavilion Project / Yang Guangnan: Dyspepsia
- LOVE-ADDICT
- The Weight of Spirit: Selection of Taikang Collection 2016
- Ghost in Flash: After Photography
- Light Pavilion Project / Hu Qingtai: Two Parts
- Light Pavilion Project / Liang Ban: Slightly Concussed
- Light Pavilion Project / Hao Jingban: Over-romanticism
- Bio-archiving: Underground Music in Shenyang 1995-2002
2015
- POLIT-SHEER-FORM MEETING: THE 10th ANNIVERSARY OF POLIT-SHEER-FORM
- Norman Bethune: Coevolution of Hero and Photography
- Back Home, Run Away: A Sample of Artistic Geography
- Fusion: Chinese Modern and Contemporary Art since 1930s
- At China: Early Photography And Photographic Techniques
2014
- THE FIRST DAWN
- LOVE STORY
- SLOW SHUTTER
- Xu Qu: Tennis Court
- Poppy: Zhang Hai'er Photography
- Pull Left: Not Always Right
- You Are Damn Wrong
- Transience: Intractable Objects
2013
- Jia Xiaoding: ENDLESS
- From Fuxingmen to Caochangdi: Taikang Space 2003—
- Wang Zhenfei: CONTROL
- Liu Xinyi: EXCITATION WAVES
- Groundwork Community
- Pessimism or Resistance?
2012
- Rural North China 1947-1948
- Cai Dongdong: PULLING TO THE LEFT
- Sunset Vacuum Plug
- Gao Weigang: SUPERSTITION
- Painting: Jin Shangyi & Zhang Shujian
- La Chambre Claire
2011
- Three Openings of Xiangqian Art Museum
- EXHIBITION
- Holy Land of Revolution & Legends of Shanghai: 4th Retrospective Photography Exhibition of Wu Yinxian
- IMAGE·HISTORY·EXISTENCE——TAIKANG LIFE 15th ANNIVERSARY ART COLLECTION EXHIBITION
- Present Continuous Past(s)
- Valiant & Heroic Peripateticism: 3rd Retrospective Photography Exhibition of Wu Yinxian
- 51㎡：16 Emerging Chinese Artists
2010
- 51㎡: No.16 Wang Yuyang
- 51㎡: No.15 Liang Yuanwei
- 51㎡: No.14 Yan Bing
- Genuine Colors & Images•All Sorts of Flowers Are in Bloom: 2nd Retrospective Photography Exhibition of Wu Yinxian
- 51㎡: No.13 Liu Chuang
- 51㎡: No.12 Ma Qiusha
- 51㎡: No.11 Xu Qu
- 51㎡: No.10 Lu Zhengyuan
- 51㎡: No.9 Pei Li
- 51㎡: No.8 Xin Yunpeng
- 51㎡: No.7 Hu Xiangqian
- 51㎡: No.6 Cai Weidong
- 51㎡: No.5 Li Mu
- In Between: Han Lei Photography Exhibition
- 51㎡: No.4 Wang Sishun
2009
- 51㎡：3# Zhao Yao
- 51㎡：2# Su Wenxiang
- Beijing Hotel and the Great Hall of the People: 1st Retrospective Photography Exhibition of Wu Yinxian
- 51㎡：1# Zhao Zhao
- Subjective Images
- Luo Yang
2008
- Lost Fuchun Mountain: Shu Hao Solo Exhibition
- Peppermint: Drawings by Yan Cong
- Spirit | Life: Jiang Jianjun’s Aesthetic Narrative
- Good Times: Chen Hongbo Solo Exhibition
- Chen Weiqun: Photo-Chromato
2007
- One Work: Propitiation of Liu Wei + Chen Haoyu
- Illusion–Running Away: Shu Hao’s Exhibition
- Box Space, Space Box: Ma Qiusha’s Photographs
- TIME LAPSE
- Mirage: Sun Hongbin Solo Exhibition
- Beautiful Plan: Han Yajuan Solo Exhibition
