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Bingyi

Ph. D., Yale University
Lives and works in New York City, Buffalo and Beijing

冰逸

艺术学博士,耶鲁大学
在纽约,布法罗,北京创作生活

 


 
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This series concentrate on the political tension and ideological conflict that one experiences in the post 9.11 world. For instance, Hero poses the question of how a hero is made in our society. It questions whether there is indeed a difference between Communist propaganda and other types of ideological construct. Fire Drill, on the other hand, exposes the human desire for the rehearsal of anti/violence. In the vast darkness of danger, is drilling the most effective solution for one’s survival? Furthermore, what is behind the psychology of the collective fear and the organized activity of such rehearsal?



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This series examine the tension between documentation and fictionality. Is it still possible to treat a primary text such as Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet with the same intellectual consideration as contemporary Journalism? As distant as these two texts might be (Journalism vs. Drama, Classic vs. Present), both paintings are about the basic human conditions, about the fundamental struggles in one’s life. Hence the question becomes: what provokes the mind’s eye? The intellectual interpretation or the emotional content of the paintings? Can one event be read both conceptually and emotionally? Central Park is based on the story of cayote Hal captured in Central Park and died on March 30, 2006. Romeo and Juliet is based on the Chinese classic love story entitled Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai.

 
 



 
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This series deals with the issues of memory and fragmented narrative. When we claim that we remember the past, to what extent can we fully claim that memory? Do we collect mementos of the past because we are living in the present or we are in fact living in that past, which can only materialize into fragmentation of the present? Furthermore, when one composes a visual reality, to what extent the realism of narration also constitutes the very making of the myth of time and remembrance?

 
 



 
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How is myth made, processed and contained? Can one person's fable become an universal truth? How can we particularize emotions and imaginations through our visual experience?

 
 



 
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Are we all fundamentally alienated existence? Is one-child policy a reflection of the ultimate condition of human lives? Can one really develop an intellectual and emotional relevance to his/her age and place?

 
 


 
     
 
     

The ambivalent nature of human relationships is often framed by the uncertainty of time and space.



 
 
   

Interview: NYFA

Review: Naked Punch

PRESS RELEASE FOR RECENT SHOWS

Article from Artvoice (April 12 2007)

Bingyi at Artvoice

Bingyi at CFA SUNY