Bi Rongrong
Animal in Two Dimensions
A Thousand Plateaus Art Space, Chengdu
October 15 - December 11, 2022
Bi Rongrong
Animal in Two Dimensions
A Thousand Plateaus Art Space, Chengdu
© Ri Rongrong / A Thousand plateaus Space
Bi Rongrong's creation is known for "patterns" and "weaving". She extracts the surface patterns from buildings, posters, animals and plants, landscapes, or abstract objects, and then weaves and combines them. Her creation starts from painting, which not only includes painting, video, installation and other media, but also her own unique weaving craftsmanship. She uses basic textile techniques to weave wool, plastic, metal wire and other materials into collected patterns and present their unique detail and texture. Among them, she even adds materials such as luminous light points and metal sheets to form a comprehensive plane structure. On the other hand, Bi Rongrong is also using the "weaving" technique to comb her own creative journey. Her different works are like strings or bases in the process of weaving. These works extend and grow in their own ways, and together form a closely intertwined whole.
Through the process of reorganization, integration, and confrontation, these patterns reveal the culture, knowledge, social, or natural evolution context of their respective groups and places that were originally hidden from the eye. As the curator Xu Sheng put it: the wall is the pattern of architecture, the street is the pattern of city, the plant is the pattern of nature, and the wrinkle of clothing is the pattern of life... The patterns are often abstract, silent, and expressionless, but their overall shape, delicate details, and texture materials all reveal the invisible power hidden in time, life, or natural circulation. The study and observation of these patterns, as well as the meditation and imagination that come from them, are not only a kind of sorting out the complicated appearances in the tide of the times, but also a practice of the ancestors’ saying "learning from the nature of things".
Different patterns are like puzzles waiting to be answered, while Bi Rongrong walks through these puzzles and turns her work into another pattern. From the brush to the extension of light and shadow, from the painting plane to the real space, then further to a broader plane, these works travel through different materials and dimensions. They are still like a puzzle, but they are endowed with spiritual life because of their organic structure. It is not fixed, but growing. It is an animal in a woven plane. It absorbs new materials and ideas to obtain nutrients and form works; Each line in the work is like one of its nerve endings, extending outward. This is the origin of the exhibition title "Animal in two dimensions". Now, it is about to show part of its true face in A Thousand Plateaus Art Space.
Curator: Xu Sheng
A THOUSAND PLATEAUS ART SPACE 千高原艺术空间
South Square, Tiexiang Temple Riverfront, High-tech District, Chengdu, Sichuan
