Light Pavilion Project / A Little Violence of Organized Forgetting
2016.10.27 – 2016.11.26
Artist(s)：Wang Tuo
Curator(s)：Li Jia
The fifth episode of “Light Pavilion Project” will be devoted to Wang Tuo’s individual program titled “A Little Violence of Organized Forgetting”. Born in 1984, this young artist, after studying biology for years, shifted to painting and went to study in the US. He is recognized for his video theatre that is based on multiple narrative structures and performative quality. In his collaboration with Taikang Space this time, video still plays a key narrative role, but their representation is incorporated into an implicative multi-layered system of illusion built in the exhibition space. The paintings at the exhibition, in the meanwhile, enter the optical intersection of the audience in an amiably way and share their secrets like old friends. Here various paralleled contrasts surface one after another, highlighting interrupted intertextuality. Such complexity runs through Wang’s art. What is rendered in his works is always in movement, overlying, sliding, dislodging and fissioning, keeping distance from any definite words or items. As indicated by the title of this exhibition, “失忆事典” is actually a deliberate and inaccurate rendering whose source is “a little violence of organized forgetting”，an ambiguous expression by Henry A. Giroux, an American scholar, hinting of organized forgetting and minor violence.
Wang Tuo was born in 1984 in Changchun, Jilin, Wang Tuo has a BS in biology from Northeast Normal University (2007), a MA in painting from Academy of Art & Design, Tsinghua University (2012), and an MFA in painting from School of Visual Arts in Boston (2014). Currently works and lives in New York and Beijing.
| Light Pavilion Project |
As a site for individual project, “Light Pavilion” is initiated in 2012, based on the second floor of Taikang Space. It aims at providing a flexible platform for artists to realize their ambitions. After an interval of two years, “Light Pavilion” is restarted in 2016, embracing a vision always open to uncertainty, complicity and detournement. It’s not only a site for sensational immersion and experiential evocation but also a forum dedicated to diversity and otherness.
About Taikang Space
Taikang Space is a non-profit art institution devoted to the collection, exhibition, research, and promotion of Chinese contemporary art. It was founded by Taikang Life Insurance Co., Ltd in 2003, and has received long-term support from the company. In 2009, Taikang Space relocated from the 798 Art District to Caochangdi, an art village in northeast Beijing, where it remains today.
