北京独立艺术家团体“联合现场”将隆重推出“捕捉器”——王卫装置作品展，本展览是继联合展览“乱伦”和装置表演“间·剧”之后的第三个“联合现场”项目。
空间装置作品“捕捉器”延续了王卫一直以来在作品中对物理及抽象空间的探讨。本次展览他运用了被放大数十倍的木制 “捕鸟器”与极具“侵犯性”的脚手架在整个展览空间中营造出一个庞大的、繁复的现实丛林。王卫充分利用了“空间中的空间”这一概念在现场为观者布下一个虚拟与现实的“阵”，当我们在空间里艰难地穿梭在脚手架所搭出的各种间隙之中，似乎在体验城市钢筋混凝土景观在压缩到展厅内部以后被强化了的无限压迫的感觉。当我们直面被放大的带有戏剧化和荒诞性的“捕鸟器”时，我们是“进”还是“出”？是在“里”还是在“外”？此时我们却已深陷在王卫的“捕捉”之中。
营造“空间中的空间”和关注空间与观众的互动所带来的感受是王卫作品的主线。他相信，“ 空间与空间的悖论关系能使观者产生一种无所适从的感觉。”与此同时艺术家通过其作品所激发出的生理和情感上的不稳定感与我们对日常环境中的巨变所产生的真实反应是相通的。
王卫的“捕捉器”将于7月30日下午3点在站台·中国开幕。
In CAEP’s third event, Beijing
artist Wang Wei will present a large-scale,
site-specific installation work “Trap.”
“Trap” follows on the heels of Complete
Art Experience Project’s most recent
exhibition/performance projects “Incest”
and “Space Inter Space.” CAEP is a Beijing-based
independent artist initiative that continues
to explore experimental art practice and
exhibition models through individual and
collective projects organized by its members.
Wang Wei’s Installation “Trap”
carries on the artist’s exploration of
physical and metaphysical architecture.
In this new work Wang Wei reproduces a
colossal and intricate jungle combining
a blown up wooden bird trap with strategically
placed scaffolding to create a “space
within space”. The exhibition lays down
a virtual and real “trap” for viewers,
confronting them with a condensed concrete
jungle within the exhibition space. Coming
face to face with the absurd “bird trap,”
does one go “into” it or stay “out
of” it? What is “inside,” and what
is “outside?” In any case, Wang Wei
has the audience caught.
“Space within a space” and
the impact of spatially engaging the viewer
is the backbone of Wang Wei’s art. He
believes that the “paradoxical relationship
of the unusable space within a space forces
the observer into unknown and uncomfortable
territory.” It is this kind of physical
and emotional disorientation that Wang
Wei provokes in his work. It is a disorientation
that speaks of our personal experiences
in the midst of drastic environmental
changes in our daily lives.
Wang Wei’s solo exhibition
“Trap” opens July 30 at Platform China,
Beijing.
