Other positions from Asia represented in this exhibition are Nandan Giya, Jin Lie, Lin Jingjing and Zhang Hui. Nandan Ghiya (* 1980 in India) focuses on computer technology and the ‘social networks’ of everyday life. He manipulates and creates collages out of old found images, recomposing them into pseudo-digital images. Jin Lie (* 1969 in China, lives in Berlin) confronts the question of identity in his paintings in subtle and often ironic way, using the personal experience of coming into contact with Western pop culture in his childhood and youth in China, as well with a view on the history of his home country. Lin Jingjing (* 1975 in China) focuses on interpersonal relationships and their internal and external vulnerabilities which is sophisticatedly transmitted onto social traditions and processes. She uses found materials and changes them – ‘hurts’ them through embroidery, in order to put content and aesthetics in a new context. Zhang Hui (* 1979 in China) reflects on traditional Chinese landscape painting. Her findings push a concentrated but not less sensitive brushwork often towards abstraction. The colours function less as a painting medium, and more as a language for these sensations.
This exhibition creates an image of just one of the facets of the gallery’s programme. Furthermore it also creates a fragmentary view of contemporary Asian art containing the diversity of their ideas, as well as their cross-continental references to cultural and social traditions and to the different, contemporary and cutting-edge artistic approaches.
ALEXANDER OCHS GALLERIES
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