After an exceptional edition at La Pedrera-Casa Milà, LOOP will return to its original and intimate format by once again taking over the hotel rooms of the Almanac Barcelona, located in the heart of the city. For three days, LOOP will transform the venue into an essential meeting point for the moving image community, gathering together galleries, artists, collectors and other art world's leading professionals.
Following the body experiment project at Luxelakes A4 Art Museum in Chengdu (2018), Chen Qiulin and the contemporary dancer Zheng Yuanyuan collaborated again, moving the experiment from Chengdu to Chongqing. Working with Chongqing local dance students, the project With Light With Shadow (2019) fully taps into the physical potential of the students - allowing them to spontaneously experience the movement of individual body parts and think about contemporary art through the lens of dance.
The discussion unfolds in a group dance with a sharp, piercing and story-like sound effect. Through the simple action of "exchanging objects", the relationship between people in the video is changing - from strange and awkward, to entangled and merged - culminating into a collective process climax. With Light With Shadow (2019) is also a powerful question raised by artist Chen about identity mapping, physical distance and interdependence of people in our contemporary society.
