Exhibition
59th Venice Biennale: The Milk of Dreams
23 Apr 2022 – 27 Nov 2022
Venice
Venice, Italy
Among all of the national participations, it is notable that the Chinese Pavilion will feature the theme of “Meta-Scape”, with Zhang Zikang, who serves as the Director of CAFA Art Museum, as the curator.
Works from Liu Jiayu, Wang Yuyang, Xu Lei, and Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) Institute of Sci-Tech Arts+Tsinghua Laboratory of Brain and Intelligence (TLBI) Group Project, will be presented in this exhibition in Arsenale.
Meta-Scape is inspired by the “Scape”, represented by “poetry” in the traditional Chinese literary context. From the contemporary perspective of media theory, Meta-Scape connects an ecological or system image presented by “Scape” to the current human context of“human-technology- nature”. “Scape” is an evolving term in the discourse system of traditional Chinese culture. Based on the human context of “human-technology-nature”, Meta-Scape aims at representing the “Structure of Understanding” created by the Chinese nation in the process of comprehending and transforming the world and exploring the civilisation landmark set by mankind for the coexistence of the future world by taking the “Scape” in traditional Chinese culture as a principle concept, holding the attitude of transcending time indicated by “Meta”.
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