Curiosa Sector SC1
A Thousand Plateaus Art Space is thirlled to participate in Paris Photo 2022: Curiosa, curated by Holly Rousseau. We will present the artworks from Chen Xiaoyi's solo exhibition "The Epoch Of Rippling Hengduan Mountains - I am supposed to tell you some of the words I heard deep down in the sea" from Novmber 10 to 13 at Grand Palais Ephémère, Paris.
The exhibition continues the artist's "image-scanning" work on mountains since 2018, focusing on The Hengduan Mountains in Southwest China. From rocks and minerals to tools and technology, we have expanded the grand picture of the current world by digging down into the earth after a long period of evolution. Metals and mining industry are irreplaceable in the long history of mankind. When casting the internal world of capital, from the surface of the sphere to the interior of the sphere, "mines" also draws a panoramic view of human beings’ madness system. The mining industry in the inaccessible mountains of Southwest China is essentially a game of exchanging time between people and the earth. In the artist's works, mines, tunnel and ores exist as metaphorical representations, with the intention of discussing the modernity experience, geological time and ecology hidden under the image, as well as the madness system. Through various medias such as video and photography, the artist tried to gather heterogeneous things and re-measure those faults, cracks and contingencies, and to draw atlas for the areas before they are named, so as to open a virtual geological age.
