陈秋林 Chen Qiulin

Chen Qiulin (born in Yichang, Hubei Province in 1975) experiments in various mediums including video, photography, installation and sculpture. Chen graduated from the Printmaking Department of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in 2000, and her creation process is constantly in the state of continuous development and progress. With a unique sensitivity, Chen keeps introducing new viewpoints and perspectives into frequently discussed social issues.

Chen Qiulin's awards include: The Best New Artist Award of the first Montpellier Chinese Contemporary Art Biennale (2005), the recipient of ACC (Asian Cultural Council in New York) grant at China (2006), the First Asian World Women Forum Rising Talents Programme Nominee (2008), The Fourth Annual AAC Award for the Most Influential Participants of Chinese Art 2009 - the Annual Young Artist Nominee (2010), Reshaping History Academic Award Nominee (2010), Loop Award of Loop Art Fair (Barcelona) (2017).

Important exhibitions Chen Qiulin participated in include: “The Wall: Reshaping Contemporary Chinese Art", THIS IS NOT FOR YOU: Sculptural Discourses, T-BA21 Collection exhibition, the 7th Gwangju Biennale, the 6th Asia Pacific Contemporary Art Triennial (APT6, Australia), China Power Station Part Ⅱ,Ⅲ,Ⅳ, The Land Between Us (The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, England), Moving Image in China: 1988 - 2011 (Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China), the 3rd Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art (Yekaterinburg, Russia) and a series of important international and domestic exhibitions. Chen Qiulin’s several influential solo exhibitions were held in Hammer Museum (Los Angeles), Max Protetch Gallery, Long March Space, A Thousand Plateaus Art Space, Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Honolulu Museum of Art (Hawaii) and A4 Art Museum (Chengdu). Her works were collected by The Sondra Gilman and Celso Gonzalez-Falla Collections (New York), Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art (Oslo), T-BA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (Vienna), Hammer Museum (Los Angeles), The Bohen Foundation (New York), Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art (Brisbane), Art Museum of Central Academy of Fine Arts (Beijing), A4 Art Museum (Chengdu), Tsinghua University Art Museum and many other art galleries and private collectors.

“《空的城》（2012）是一部七屏录像作品，包含七个既相关又独立的故事，以艺术家陈秋林成长的万州为背景。这座城市在2003年因三峡工程而被淹没了大部分。作品呈现了一组关于成长的个人叙事影像日记，交织了亲情、乡愁、欲望、茫然、荒诞、寂寞等情感。这些个人情绪与庞大背景的交织形成了个人意象与社会意象两个层面上的互文关系。在某种意义上，《空的城》是陈秋林以成人身份回到故乡追寻童年痕迹的旅程，一场漫长的告别故乡之旅，一段人生的自我修复之旅。七个碎片化的场景争相述说人性深处的艰难和困顿，揭示了人类共同的永恒本质，在陈秋林的七步曲中一一展现。陈秋林的影像絮语构建了一座“空的城”，一个由她自己安排的城市，只有她自己居住其中，成为一个真实的自我。她去掉了艺术家的外衣，抛弃了所有的身份标签，虽然寂寞，但明白，怀抱孤独，唯有继续前行。（有删改） ——易鸿，撰稿人”