{"id":2884,"date":"2023-03-21T13:49:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T05:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hanart.com\/?p=2884"},"modified":"2025-12-24T12:16:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T04:16:14","slug":"%e5%b7%b4%e5%a1%9e%e7%88%be%e8%97%9d%e8%a1%93%e5%b1%95%e9%a6%99%e6%b8%af%e5%b1%95%e6%9c%832023-%e5%85%ac%e5%85%b1%e5%b1%95%e4%bd%8dencounter-en9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hanart.com\/zh\/%e5%b7%b4%e5%a1%9e%e7%88%be%e8%97%9d%e8%a1%93%e5%b1%95%e9%a6%99%e6%b8%af%e5%b1%95%e6%9c%832023-%e5%85%ac%e5%85%b1%e5%b1%95%e4%bd%8dencounter-en9\/","title":{"rendered":"\u5df4\u585e\u723e\u85dd\u8853\u5c55\u9999\u6e2f\u5c55\u67032023: \u516c\u5171\u5c55\u4f4d EN9"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Encounter: Inga Svala TH\u00d3RSD\u00d3TTIR & WU Shanzhuan\u00a0\u5433\u5c71\u5c08<\/strong>\u00a0\u8207<\/strong>\u00a0\u82f1\u683c\u318d\u65af\u74e6\u62c9\u318d\u6258\u65af\u6735\u8482\u723e<\/strong>
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Working together since the early 1990s, Inga Svala Th\u00f3rsd\u00f3ttir and Wu Shanzhuan’s partnership reflects a symbiotic, creative dialogue. Their individual practices merge to reflect one artist\u2019s complexity and the other\u2019s purity, with a polarity that is evident in this work. The wooden architecture offers the audience passage for activation. It is also a cosmic site for contemplation and intimacy. The artists invite you to move through the environment to experience it from alternative perspectives, both introspectively and alongside the pauses and transits of others. Questioning the very nature of being, the duo offers a sacred space for worship, or a place of meeting to reflect and breathe \u2013 inward and outward.

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Inga Svala Th\u00f3rsd\u00f3ttir & Wu Shanzhuan \u5433\u5c71\u5c08 \u8207 \u82f1\u683c\u318d\u65af\u74e6\u62c9\u318d\u6258\u65af\u6735\u8482\u723e Constellation Forest\u300a\u62f1\u6797\u300b 2018 American Pine, Larch, Hemlock and White Pine \u7f8e\u6d32\u677e\u3001\u9435\u6749\u3001\u767d\u677e\u3001\u843d\u8449\u677e Approx. 330 x 900 x 500 cm<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Constellation Forest<\/em><\/strong> is a series of arches constructed by the principle of \u201cthe perfect bracket\u201d and \u201clittle fat flesh\u201d, geometric forms the artists invented as a homage to Plato. But their geometry refers to impossible forms that can only belong to transcendent metaphysical spaces. Wu claims: \u201cThe very fact that thought has to produce visible evidence spells out its tragedy, for truth has been murdered by its medium.\u201d Here lies the irony for the visual artist, whose very task should be the ideal Platonic form. It is from this ironic position Inga and Wu launch their radical critique of modernity, which includes the artwork \u201cThings\u2019 Rights\u201d that subverts the 30 Articles of \u201cHuman Rights\u201d by expanding these principles from humans to all \u201cthings\u201d, and exposes with humour the anthropocentric prejudice of the Enlightened modern man. The arches of the \u201cConstellation Forest\u201d invite the visitor to stand under a space where he or she may speculate upon the task of art-making as world-creation.

The radicality of their approach to art-making is impressive, which perhaps reflects the context of their backgrounds. For Inga whose home is Iceland, one speculates on the utopic constitution of Iceland\u2019s geography and its intimate society. For Wu whose home is Zhoushan Island near Shanghai, one cannot but be reminded of the radical experimentation of Mao\u2019s politics. Wu grew up in the turbulent years of the Cultural Revolution when an adolescent believed every aspect of the social world could be challenged and the human being transformed.

Inga Svala Th\u00f3rsd\u00f3ttir <\/strong>was born in Iceland in 1966. She graduated in 1991 from the Painting Department of the Icelandic School of Arts and Crafts, and in 1995 from the Hochschule f\u00fcr bildende K\u00fcnste in Hamburg. In 1993 she founded \u201cThor\u2019s Daughter\u2019s Pulverization Service\u201d, and in 1999 she founded \u201cBORG\u201d. Wu Shanzhuan<\/strong> was born in China in 1960. He graduated from the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts in 1986, and in 1995 from the Hochschule f\u00fcr bildende K\u00fcnste in Hamburg. In 1985 he founded \u201cRed Humour\u201d, and in 1990 he founded \u201cRed Humour International\u201d. Since 1991 Th\u00f3rsd\u00f3ttir and Wu have been working and exhibiting collaboratively. They live and work in Hamburg, Shanghai and Reykjav\u00edk.

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