黄 河 Huang He (Yellow River) 黄河 2008 年毕业于广州美术学院现居佛山,2016 年和双胞胎姐妹黄山组成艺术家小组山河跳!作为山河跳!小组成员与个人近期参加展览包括:斗法/2017 年纽约 SLEEPCENTER,原地前进/2017 年北京长征空间,个人展览黄河:狗尿/2016 年广州画廊;曾参加展览与项目包括 2015 年德国基尔 Ziran/Nature,2015 年香港“星计划” 空间首展,2008-2009 年曹斐-人民城寨虚拟风水项目,2009 年迈阿密艺术博览会等。除了艺术创作,黄河的实践包括长达 9 年的广州本地艺术机构工作、独立艺评写作 和策展,文字曾见于《艺术界 LEAP》与 ARTFORUM 中文网、自媒体“打边炉”等。她的创作兴趣主要关于在“中国”的特殊语境下个人叙事在集体叙事内部发生的碰撞, 创作内容涉及即兴声音艺术、图像与文字的叙事、城乡鬼怪传说、精神分析、释梦及占卜。 Huang He graduated from Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts in 2008, now lives and works in Foshan. She founded artist-duo Mountain River Jump! with her twin sister Huang Shan. As a member of the group or as an independent artist, her recent participated exhibitions and projects include: Reality Check (2017, SLEEPCENTER, New York), Marching in Circles (2017, Long March Space, Beijing), The Dog Urine (2016, solo exhibition, Canton Gallery), Ziran/Nature (2015, Kiel, Germany), the first group exhibition, Glossy! Shiny! Fertility! of Starproject (2015,Hong Kong), a virtual Feng Shui (Chinese geomancy) project built in the game Second Life, invited by RMB City (2008-2009), Art Basel Miami Beach (2009). Her artistic practices include work experiences in local art institutions for almost 9 years long, independent critical and curatorial work. You could see her contributions on LEAP, website of Artforum and we media Da-bian-lu, etc. Her interest is mainly about how individual narrations crash into collective narrations in the context of “China” . Her works could be referred to sound improvisation, visual & lingual narrations, urban and rural ghost stories, psychoanalysis, oneiromancy, fengshui and divination.
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Huang He graduated from Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts in 2008, now lives and works in Foshan. She founded artist-duo Mountain River Jump! with her
twin sister Huang Shan. As a member of the group or as an independent artist, her recent participated exhibitions and projects include: Reality Check (2017,
SLEEPCENTER, New York), Marching in Circles (2017, Long March Space, Beijing), The Dog Urine (2016, solo exhibition, Canton Gallery), Ziran/Nature (2015,
Kiel, Germany), the first group exhibition, Glossy! Shiny! Fertility! of Starproject (2015,Hong Kong), a virtual Feng Shui (Chinese geomancy) project built in the
game Second Life, invited by RMB City (2008-2009), Art Basel Miami Beach (2009). Her artistic practices include work experiences in local art institutions for
almost 9 years long, independent critical and curatorial work. You could see her contributions on LEAP, website of Artforum and we media Da-bian-lu, etc. Her
interest is mainly about how individual narrations crash into collective narrations in the context of “China”. Her works could be referred to sound
improvisation, visual & lingual narrations, urban and rural ghost stories, psychoanalysis, oneiromancy, fengshui and divination.
精神分析之父/之母与之子
装置 (包含三变光栅画与使用金属灯罩的红色灯泡)
光栅画尺寸:30x40 厘米;装置尺寸可变
The Father/ mother and the son of psychoanalysis
installation (includes a 3-image-change plastic lenticular sheet, 2 red bulbs with metal lampshades)
size of the lenticular sheet: 30x40cm; installation dimensions variable
Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, is the authority of human beings’ mind. Many of his opinion were quite male oriented, one of the most famous one was that he
supposed female want to own male genital organs. To me, Freud somehow had fed human’s mind, in that sense, he could be a mother. His ash was put in an ancient Greek urn, a
metaphor for mother’s body, according to his will. I guess that he was eager to have or should have a pair of breasts. It could be fun.
I also put a pair of breast-like red lamps in front of Freud’s portrait, like anyone can pray to this father of psychoanalysis.
"重要星图"文化精神分析
单屏循环录像装置与文本
录像长度:5 分 32 秒,无声;装置尺寸可变
Focusing on "the Star Chart” — Cultural Psychoanalysis
single screen looped video installation with text
duration of the video: 5min 32 sec, silent; installation dimensions variable
In Rio 2016 Olympic Games, a wrong Chinese flag was raised by Rio officials at a medal ceremony. This was the first time many of the Chinese people knew
about a certain detail design of the Chinese national flag, so did I. Then I had a discovery, our national flag in the modern times is actually a star chart. What is
more, the way how the stars are placed on the flag is related to the role of Polaris played in feudal times in Chinese history, which had represented the
emperor for very long time. Then, the number of the stars, five, is a very important number in Zhou Yi theory. I have been interested in astrology and
divination for a long time. I made this great discovery into video and put up a flawed national flag sticker near it which I bought from internet.
该装置包括以下文本:
This installation includes the following text:
东南西北中 East South West North CENTER
五行 The five elements 1,2,3,4,5
金木水火土 metal, wood, water, fire, earth
土地 EARTH LAND
中央 Center
汉 Han
与大家分享的两件怪事
装置(打印的故事陈列在镜面上) 尺寸可变
Two stories sharing
installation (includes printed stories displayed on a mirror), dimensions variable
I would like to share with others two occult stories, they happened during the times of war and cultural revolution in China. One story came from my net
friend. The other was told by my relative, Aunt Icy, she works as a public servant.
After 1976 I went back to work. At that time, everyone was talking about what happened in the past 10 years of the Cultural Revolution. One of my colleagues told me that he knew
someone who participated in a pidou hui (public persecution). This man painted the hands of the "persecution targets" into black with ink, and accused them as the"black hands
behind the stage", a Chinese idiom referring to evil backstage manipulator in dark.He accused many government officials as “black hands”, and then prosecuted them. A few years
later, the man had a baby, whose skins on hands and arms are black, much darker than the rest of his body, looks like wearing a pair of black gloves. The kid never wears short
A chicken soup story: Once, there was dog urine in the snow. Someone said: It is such a spoiler! However, a painter said: Dog urine in your eyes, but I see
charming amber. This story did somehow influence me, it is about a “artistic” attitude with no doubt; but consider it in another way, some amber might just
dog urine as well. It reflects the diversities of individuals’ experience and narrations, also the abruptness occurs when individuals’ experience/ narrations
confront those from collective. For example, my name (Huang He/Yellow River) could be a metaphorical product of collective experience, with the background
sound of patriotism…isn’t it?
展览观念结构图
Sketch of the conceptual structure of the exhibition
狗尿
单频录像装置,8min19sec,彩色,无声
The Dog Urine
single-channel video installation, 8min 19 sec, color, without sound
In this piece, I combined my name, goblets, the classicale images of the Yellow River and my understanding of all of these. First, the Yellow River could be the
dog urine in the very old days, comparing to those ledgens talking about immortals. Then, if we are giants, we can place some goblets at the river, it would be
fun to drink the wine inside; we can even let the goblets with wine flow with the waves of the river, like the acient Chinese did. Individual mythology, filth VS
historical ledgend, patriotic symbols, common understandings,this work is a visual psychoanalytic autobiography. Although one can not control his or her fate
in the long histroy, at least he or she can rewrite the...."story".
作品中的打印图片
The printed images in the work
雪球/狗蛋
手捏雕塑;盐,每个尺寸约 7厘米,尺寸可变
灯泡(狗蛋蛋)
装置;2 个白色 1瓦 LED灯泡
等待锈渍
特定场域装置;不锈钢杯,盐
Snowballs / dog's balls
hand made sculpture; salt, diameter of each unit is about 7cm; dimensions variable
Bulbs (dog's balls)
installation; two white 1w LED bulbs
Waiting for the rust
site-specific installation; steel goblets, salt
2016
黄河的大致形状
纸本绘画装置,绘画 18 x 10.2 cm(不含框),落地灯
The general shape of Huang He (the Yellow River)
installation contains a piece of drawing on paper, the drawing is 18 x 10.2cm without frame, lantern
2015-2016
我默写的黄河形状。
I tried to depict the shape of Huang He (the Yellow River) by memory.
不够暴力的色情不是好政治
数字图像 尺寸可变
The Pornography which is not Violent enough is not good Politics
digital image, dimensions variable
2014
这 3个圈是好朋友。
These three circles (Pornography, Violent, Politics) are good friends.
人脸灯
装置 37x17cm
Lamp with a face
installation 37x17cm
2016
一边创作一边消费
gif 动图,两帧
Creating while consuming
gif, 2 frames
2014
100 元与在时代美术馆天台花店消费的茶,背景是未来会发展房地产的土地。
A 100 RMB bank note put in the tea cup. Photo taken at the terrace of Times Museum, Guangzhou, China, with the background of developing real estate in
the image.
酸味听觉
gif 动图,两帧
Sour hearing
behavior, digital image, dimensions variable
2014
换这种方式听,外界被酸味过滤。
Listen in other way, the outside world is filtered.
疤/虫洞
形状不定的黑色背胶,分布在空间若干位置
Scars / Wormholes
black stickers in different shapes, placed in various areas in the space.
2016
外化的情绪提示;虫洞也是时空的追溯。
Hints for the emotion. Wormhole is also a pursue to the time.
On the building site of Longmen Reservoir in Guangdong in 2010, Mrs. Lu / my mother, a civilian scientist, got the “crude Head Stone” from a working villager
who said he found the stone at a pebble beach. The left eye on this Head Stone was chiselled by him for symmetry, the villager professed. Ribs Stone was
found by Mrs. Lu at the lower reach of Conghua Reservoir in 2013. While moving the stone, villagers told her, they had the custom of worshipping the peculiar
stones. Personally I think the first stone is artificial, the second one is crude. However, the artificial stone has the subtle expression of human beings, the crude
Ribs Stone is more like “Xingtian wields the shield and ax, the intrepid spirit exists infinitely”, “Xingtian”, the antient god who uses nipple as eyes, navel as
mouth, after his head was cut off.
In the process of photographing the stones for my mother, she guided me to observe the surface of stones over and over. Within her individual theory that
was hard to be accepted by the science system, the natural power that creates lives also creates the zoetic stones.
Boatman is a traveller through time and space. It dropped into the holes on the bread it takes with itself. It is drunk. It supposed it is chanting.
Daily life is such a trap.
新月第三天
特制鸡尾酒 / 特定场地装置,紫色 LED灯管;椅子,胶带等;尺寸可变
The Third Day after the New Moon
specially designed cocktail / site-specific installation, purple LED tubes and chairs, tapes, .etc, dimensions variable
2015
与我在网上收集灵异故事的项目有关,现场特别配置鸡尾酒一款
除了展览,现场陈列来自不同朋友的怪事,并与咖啡厅的消费者交流
非日常的经验嵌入消费场所查看可能发生的效应
Related to a online supernatural stories collecting project / with a specially designed cocktail served at the exhibition
Except for the art pieces, I presented several stories that collected from different friends and talk to the consumers at the Café, trying to combine non-daily
experience with daily experience and see what would happen.
参观艺博会
数码图像,尺寸可变
Visiting Art Basel HK
digital image, dimension variable
2015
这是一家在网上订购的香港民居,客厅墙壁贴的是面对维多利亚港的豪宅阳台——的喷画。桌面上放的是 Art Basel HK的免费赠票。这是我在这个民居呆的第 3个早上,
It was taken in the accommodation in HK. When we were having breakfast we found the wallpaper was about a luxury terrace facing Victoria Harbour in HK. It
seemed there was also a breakfast in the wallpaper. So I put a ticket of Basel Art Fair on the table and photo it. It was like a mirror but had totally different
Curator of the exhibition Chen Pai’an, Huang Shan, Lai Zhijie, Lai Cheuk Wah, Wen Junjie, Canton Gallery, Guangzhou, 2017.6.2-7.2
Intro:
They, or perhaps we too, are the residents of the city, pleasure-seekers, consumers, as well as builders, producers, onlookers, victims, suppliers and destroyers. All at once.