ShanghaiDu Zhenjun solo exhibition¡®Babel World¡¯
Du Zhenjun b. 1961Right: The Tower of Babel—Pollution, 2011, Silver print, 180 x 240 cm (70 7/8 x 94 1/2 in.), Edition of 6
Exhibition Dates!26 July–30 August 2015!!Monday–Sunday, 10:30am–7pmPearl Lam Galleries, 181 Middle Jiangxi Road, G/F, Shanghai, China 200002
Shanghai—Pearl Lam Galleries is pleased to present Babel World, Paris-based, Shanghai-bornartist Du Zhenjun¡¯s solo exhibition. The exhibition will feature a selection from the artist¡¯srecent series of photography works, together with an early multimedia video work, and a newmedia installation created specifically for this show.Du Zhenjun works primarily in digital media, which the artist believes is the most relevantway of making art in an era largely dominated and shaped by digital technologies.! Du¡¯sinteractive new media installations and digitally manipulated photographs have made himone of China¡¯s most recognised digital artists.The exhibition title, Babel World, comes from the artist¡¯s series of photographs of the samename, which emanate his imagination and visions of post-dystopian ruins, as an artist¡¯sdelineation and retort to what the world is becoming.!For Du, Babel World symbolises globalisation that is built on the base of a universal digitallanguage. The underlying theme that weaves through this series of photographs isglobalisation and the brutal changes brought upon our social condition by digital technologiesthat inevitably reshape our reality. This series of work is inspired by the Tower of Babel story inthe Book of Genesis, in which mankind, who spoke one common language, tried to build a cityand tower to reach heaven. God intervened by disorientating them through the creation ofmultiple languages as a punishment for their betrayal, dispersing people all over the world.With the myth of Babel as a backdrop, Du¡¯s use of computer technologies allows him toreinterpret the Genesis story in the present day, using digitally assembled Internet-sourcedimages to create a collage in order to spotlight a different facet of modern conflict, rangingfrom consumption, climate change, and environmental catastrophe to individualism andgeopolitical conflicts. In this exhibition, a section of the gallery space is dedicated to revealingto the audience both raw and original Internet-sourced images from which these largephotographs are composed, and sketches that echo the making of these controversial works.The epic, majestic towers of Babel are Du¡¯s contemporary rendition of the apocalypse,whereby the world¡¯s ecology and its self-destruction are not only comprised of environmentaland physical surroundings, but also the mental structure and values of humankind and societyto which it correlates. At first glance, the photographs of Babel, a fictional republic, appear tobe images of colossal ruins in the foreground of a chaotic urban-scape. Upon closerexamination, the more human details of the characters symbolise human relations andindiscriminate concerns, such as love, conflict, and struggle. The exhibition also features a multimedia video work, It Hurts Me Every Minute (1998), fromDu¡¯s earlier years of exploration with digital tools. The video work is one of eleven multimediapieces that Du exhibited in his 2003 Paris solo show, Too Heavy for Human Beings. This videoinstallation is composed of a selection of twenty animations played in automatic sequencethat play with the qualities of light to portray pain and suffering.
About Du ZhenjunDu Zhenjun was born in 1961 in Shanghai, China, where he graduated from the Institute of Artand Design. Following that, he graduated from the School of Fine Arts of the University ofShanghai in 1986, and taught there until 1991.In 1992, Du left for Bordeaux, France, where he began working on multimedia installations andwent on to pursue a Masters in Digital Space at the Regional School of Fine Arts in Rennes,France. Of digital media, Du believes he has finally found a contemporary language and toolwith which to evoke actual reality, the contemporary world. His interactive new mediainstallations and digitally manipulated photographs have made him one of China¡¯s mostrecognised digital artists, winning awards in the global art arena. In 2003, he broke newground with his 2003 Paris exhibition Too Heavy for Human Beings, which is recognised as thefirst solo exhibition in French digital art history.
Du¡¯s solo exhibitions include Babel Empire (2014), Château de Chambord, Château deLunéville, France; Babel-world/Du Zhenjun (2013), ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe,Germany; La Tour de Babel (2012), Maison de la Culture de Metz, Metz, France;and Interactivités (2010), L¡¯institut franco-japonais de Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan; Virtual Politics(2009), Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing, China. His works are in collections around theworld including Kadist Art Foundation (Paris, San Francisco), Société Générale (France);DSL Collection (France), ZKM Karlsruhe (Germany), and Ullens Center for ContemporaryArt (China).
About Pearl Lam GalleriesFounded by Pearl Lam, Pearl Lam Galleries is a driving force within Asia's contemporary artscene. With over 20 years of experience exhibiting Asian and Western art and design, it is oneof the leading and most established contemporary art galleries to be launched out of China.Playing a vital role in stimulating international dialogue on Chinese and Asian contemporaryart, the Galleries is dedicated to championing artists who re-evaluate and challengeperceptions of cultural practice from the region.
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