subscribeHu Jieming, MAZINE.WS solo feature
Mazine visited Hu Jieming in his Shanghai studio, by coincidence, one of the rare media - concept non conform, non decorative artists so far, in the "China art farm" (Wim Delvoye). Hu is also teaching at Shanghai Institute of visual Arts, digital media department.
Pictures and text from BIZ ART, visit for more.
Here descriptions to his work:
Altitude Zero, 2006, Installation of interactive video
Shanghai, China
The installation consists of 2 monitors camouflaged as cabin windows. The video images show ocean waters, drifting materials such as abandoned and polluted objects, symbolizing detachment and alienation from mainstream cultural domains. The objects drift between sea bottom and sea level creating a sense of movement and instability. The drifting materials remind us of the remnants of different cultures and times. Sometimes they clash against the windows, and float away at other times, resonating between the viewers and the objects. Video images are activated according to the audience presence and movement via sensors.
Raft of the medusa
Photograph
Shanghai, China
The blue sky, the white cloud and the sea. Don't be nerves for anything, although that famous raft was once the symbol of the disaster. We try our best to avoid the worry thinking, we dare not think of the worst either. We just look upward, like the climber who suffers from acrophobia. We should take the lesson from the story the man of Qi who was haunted by the fear that the sky might fall and are confident that life is hopeful. It is apathy that makes you feel happy.
The Fiery-Red Times
2000, photo 70/50 cm
Shanghai, China
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Untitled
1999, photo 50/70 cm
Shanghai, China.
The Same But Also Changed (to be closed) The Basement of Bei Hai, Building Shanghai 1999
Perfect soap
1994, object
Shanghai, China
Related to Happiness
1999, video installation
Shanghai, China
An EKG is used to show the rate of the heartbeat of an adult during masturbation. The EKG pattern is transcribed onto a musical score and subsequently performed by a self-playing piano.
Comparative Safety
1997, installation
Shanghai, China
We need more eyes to get success. If you want to know the situations around the exhibition hall, please push down the followings buttons. When you finish your observation, pleased push down the automatic button, let it return to auto state.
Has been shown at Changning Center of Art July 1997.
