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Yin Xiuzhen, Digestive Cavity, 2017
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Yin Xiuzhen, Digestive Cavity, 2017
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Duan Jianyu, Sharp, Sharp, Smart No.11, 2015
Exhibition
NOW: Yin Xiuzhen and Duan Jianyu
21 Feb 2018 – 2 Sep 2018
Regular hours
- Wednesday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Thursday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Friday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Sunday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Monday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Tuesday
- 11:00 – 18:00
Address
- Rendezvous Margate Kent
- Margate
England - CT9 1HG
- United Kingdom
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In spring 2018 Turner Contemporary presents exhibitions by Yin Xiuzhen and Duan Jianyu as part of NOW: A dialogue on female Chinese contemporary artists.
About
NOW is co-organised by Plus Tate, the China Central Academy of Fine Arts and the Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art.
Yin Xiuzhen (born Beijing, 1963) is known for her large-scale sculptural works exploring themes of globalisation, memory and the fast-paced urbanisation of contemporary China. Xiuzhen often uses found materials and second-hand clothes, drawn to the memories and personal stories they hold. As the artist says, “in a rapidly changing China ‘memory’ seems to vanish more quickly than everything else.”
Xiuzhen’s installation Digestive Cavity (2015) will take over Turner Contemporary’s Sunley Gallery. This is one of a series of sculptural spaces in the form of bodily organs. Visitors can venture into this room-sized stomach cavity, conceived by the artist as a place for stopping and slowing down.
Turner Contemporary presents a small group of Duan Jianyu large-scale paintings. Jianyu (born 1970, Henan province, lives in Guangzhou) draws on Eastern and Western art to explore the tensions between rural and urban China, between tradition and modernisation. With both nostalgia and satire, her paintings explore the intricacies of daily life, often depicting rural scenes and traditions at risk of disappearing.
NOW: A dialogue on female Chinese contemporary artists
NOWis a collaborative programme taking place across the UK including new commissions and first UK showings of artworks by female Chinese contemporary artists working in China now. The project aims to generate awareness and debate around contemporary women artists in China through a series of exhibitions, commissions and events.
