Agrarian Memory part 1
HERVE Christelle 何雨晨 researches from 09/2012-01/2013 Supervisor: 邱志杰
Questions
HUMAN How the farming of the land affected the body of the Human? What does reminder about the Man of the city his peasant origins? What are the common points between the city-dweller and the farmer? Which knowledge the Man of the city still know from his ancestors the peasants? What is the link between the cultivated Man and the Man who cultivates? What is the relation between the People and the soil in the countryside? What it is the relation between the People and the soil in the city?
TERRITORY What is the inheritance and the heritage of the agrarian society in the contemporary society? What is the link between the city territory and the countryside today? What remind the agrarian origins of the Chinese society in the city? What remind the agrarian origins of the Chinese society in the countryside?
Zhejiang’s farmes Notes written in the train
Hangzhou-Shanghai, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012
Under advertising hoardings, under rails of the train, under highways, the soil. Under the light of the lampposts which line traffic lanes, the grey soil, clayey, black during the rainy days. The material is accurately classified, crumbled, hoed. Between two cities, a web is streched out, between four heaps of ground, very straight furrows fill the square. As a tidy hair, combed, every square meter of soil is cultivated: from the bombard electric to another one, from a post of advertising hoarding to a tree, between a tarred passage and walls of a house, under the pipe of waste water which circulates in the air, on one stumble, on a heap, at the edge of a road, in a ditch Under the flux of the world, included in the patchwork of cultivated plots of land, two or three-storeyed houses with the white, grey, pink, green, blue ceramic walls. Green or blues ink windows. Something shines, a ball on the roof of the house, a rail at the level of the staircase, the spangled tiled roof of the house... Animals are rare, two, three poultry trample on a heap of something. A sticky water, blue and green stagnates at the bottom of a ditch.
Graphic
[Autobiography]
The Gates of the family farm HervĂŠ France, august 2012
sery of 3 photographies
[Art works]
Bamboo skin scanned
Human
Part 1
Les Femmes Tampons
overview, june 2012
四海艺同、和而不同 The 5th biennale exhibition of the International College of China Academy of Art The China Academy of Art Gallery, Hangzhou
Les Femmes Tampons detail, june 2012
YinNi red ink, Sen Xuan papers 178*305cm
From the Hand to the Feet web’s view, june 2012
Monaddigital web exhibition http://www.monaddigital.net/
From the Hand to the Feet overview, june 2012 Body scanned 1 photo 170*35cm
Vertebrata
overview, december 2012 Monaddigital web exhibition http://www.monaddigital.net/
Vertebrata
details, 2012 gif
Skin
overview of the blue drawing, november 2012
Skin
detail of the blue drawing, november 2012 sery of 5 drawings blue, black, red, pink, green ball-point pens 97*117cm each drawing
Wake the Beast
overview, november 2012 Bazaar Art Space, Shanghai
Wake the Beast
detail, november 2012 cow skin pliers
Reverse cow skin
Territory Part 2
Scan Countryside
overview, may 2011 “Folded Plane” exhibition Mingyuan Art Center, Shanghai
Scan Countryside detail, may 2011
Scanned pictures of Shanghai’s ground 10 photographies 1,50m*5m
Culture Cube
overview, december 2012 Displace Exhibition, Rethinking a forgotten place Phoenix Creative Garden
Culture Cube
detail, december 2012 sqarres of grass, pink string
Group Exhibitions: 2012 Displace
Phoenix Creative Garden, Hangzhou, China
2012 Wake the beast
Bazaar Art Space, Shanghai
2012 Give me a gif.
http://www.monaddigital.net/reflectspace.html TMCL studio, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China
2012 XING
Hanting Inns & Hotels, No 218 Nanshan Road, Hangzhou, China
2012 discover the body online
http://www.monaddigital.net/reflectspace.html Chilvarous Cantaloup Commune Workshop, Shanghai
2012 造.化
快意空间,Hangzhou China
2012 四海艺同、和而不同
The 5th biennale exhibition of the International College of China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China
2011 Portrait of Childhood (1): 1600 A.D faraway Chilvarous Cantaloup Commune Workshop, Shanghai
2011 Real Game Fake Life
http://www.monaddigital.net/reflectspace.html
2011 Folded Plane
Mingyuan Art Center, Shanghai, China
2011 Invisible Landscape
Fangxiang Art Center, Hangzhou, China
2011 Hollow Box
Dongzha Contemporary Art Center, Jiaxing, China
2010 improbable&improvise&immersion Flower Market An Shun, Shanghai, China
2010 Translation
Nanjing University of the Arts, China
2010 Itinéraires Graphiques, La Menace Biennale of Graphic Arts, Galerie du Faouedic, Lorient, France
2009 Le Charpentier
“L’Art Chemin Faisant” festival, Pont-Scorff, France
2005 La barricade des bocaux
Festival des Lumières, Lyon, France
Contact
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