Lin Jingjing - Tomorrow Was Wonderful

What, then, is the audience to take away from this exhibition? Lin Jingjing floods our mind with an urgent sense of uncertainty, and states: “It’s a process of casting doubt, questioning the reasons for existence, the means of existence, the extent of rights, our sense of direction, what is pressing, what makes us fall silent, how pressing matters become unimportant, the limits of value, the absurd behind the real, the loss behind existence, the cruelty of consciousness, the compromise behind humanity, the anxiety of desire, the struggle behind dreams, the avoidance of rejection, the self-doubt behind weakness, the negativity behind confusion. We must find the possible in the impossible through skepticism.”

– Lin Jingjing

ARTWORKS

Tomorrow Was Wonderful 2015 Installation Each canvas 150 x 150 cm (size variable)

One Hundred Percent 2015 Installation Size variable

There Was Nothing Except Everything 2015 Installation 95 X 49 X 80 cm

Silence 2015 Installation Size variable

I Heard All Truths Are Red And Expensive 2015 Installation 37 X 25 X 13 cm; 21 X 13 X 5 cm

Never Gone, Never Arrived 2015 Installation 28 X 18 X 14 cm

Everything is Going to be Fine 2015 Installation 78 X 46 X 24 cm

Sometimes Silence Can Seem so Loud 2015 Print, acrylic and thread on canvas 200 X 135 cm each Overall: 200 X 810 cm

China Dream: Sunny Afternoon 2015 Print, acrylic and thread on canvas 130 X 260 cm

China Dream: The Illusion of Reality 2015 Print, acrylic and thread on canvas 130 X 130 cm

China Dream: Paradise 2015 Print, acrylic and thread on canvas 130 X 130 cm

China Dream: Waiting For a Miracle 2015 Print, acrylic and thread on canvas 130 X 130 cm

China Dream: Maze 2015 Print, acrylic and thread on canvas 130 X 130 cm

Whatever Survives 2015 Installation (Money) 26 X 11 X 10 cm

I Have Yearned For Something I Cannot Afford 2015 Installation Size variable

BIOGRAPHY

BIOGRAPHY Important Collections National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China Ivam Museum, Valencia, Spain National Museum of Fine Art, Santiago, Chile The Mountain Group Museum, Taiwan Liu Hai Su Art Museum, Shanghai, China He Xiang Ning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China Tai Da Museum, Tianjing, China Museum of the Nation, Lima, Peru White Box Art Museum, Beijing, China

Background Graduated from the Fine Arts Department of Fujian University, China Completed advanced studies at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China

Solo Exhibitions 2015 Tomorrow Was Wonderful, de Sarthe Beijing, Beijing, China 2014 “Promise Again for the First Time,” de Sarthe Gallery, Hong Kong 2012 “Possible of Impossible,” Neues Kunstforum, Cologue, Germany 2012 “My Promise for Your Happiness,” Alexander Ochs Gallery, Beijing, China 2011 “The Method of Paradox,” Chile National Art Museum Plaza Vespucio, Santiago, Chile 2011 “Rose Rose,” Chile National Art Museum Plaza Trebol, Concepcion, Chile 2011 “Public Privacy,” White Box Art Center, Beijing, China 2009 “I Want to be with You Forever,” Songzhuang Art Museum, Beijing, China 2008 “Flying Alone,” Magee Art Gallery, Madrid, Spain 1997 “Dreamlike,” Liu Hai Su Art Museum, Shanghai, China

Group Exhibitions 2015 “You, I among Us,” de Sarthe Beijing, Beijing 2014 “(CC)TV,” Galerie Herold, Künstlerhaus GüterabfertigungAm Güterbahnhof, Beim Handelsmuseum 9 2014 “Current Reality/ Hidden Barriers,” de Sarthe Gallery, Hong Kong 2014 Art Basel, de Sarthe Gallery, Hong Kong 2014 Artstage, Singapore 2013 Art Taipei, de Sarthe Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan 2013 Sydney Contemporary, Sydney, Australia 2013 Chinese Contemporary Art, Saint Mart’s University Art Museum, Nova Scotia, Canada

2013 Group Show, de Sarthe Gallery, Hong Kong 2012 First Biennale Italy-China, Villa Reale Di Monza, Italy 2012 “Short Cut,” Aleander Ochs Gallery, Berlin, Germany 2012 “Phoenix Symphony: Female Contemporary Arts,” Tree Art Museum, Songzhuang, Beijing, China 2011 “Half the sky: Women in the New of China,” Leonard Pearlstein Gallery, Philadelphia, USA 2011 “Memory & Identity,” MK2 Art Center, Beijing, China 2010 “Mind In Turmoil, Hand Better Busy,” Long De Xuan Art Center, Beijing, China 2010 “The Possibility of Uncertainty,” Songzhuang Art Museum, Beijing, China 2010 “Cruzando El Horizonte - Chinese contemporary art,” Chile National Art museum, Santiago, Chile 2009 Gemeinsam in Bewegung-Deutschland und China Contemporary Art, Wuhan Museum, China 2008 “55 Days in Valencia, Chinese Art meeting,” Ivam Museum, Valencia, Spain 2008 “Time-Lag: The New Force of Chinese Contemporary Art,” Magee Art Gallery, Madrid, Spain 2007 “Journey to the West,” Kunstraum, Vienna, Austria 2006 “Potential Dialogue - The party of Sino-Austria Young Artists,” RCM ART Museum, China 2005 Archaeology of The Future - The Second Triennial Of Chinese Art, Nanjing Museum, China 2004 “EAST OF EAST,” Ljubljana Castle, Ljubljana, Slovenja 2004 “One to One: Visions - recent Photographs from China,” Chambers Gallery, New York, USA 2003 “The Different Same - Contemporary Art Exchange Exhibition,” Du Land Modern Art Museum, Shanghai, China 2003 “The First China Art Tri - annual Exhibition,” Guangzhou Art Museum, China 2002 “Cultural Forum - New Millennium Chinese Art Works,” Tikanoja Art Museum, Vaasa, Finland

Published on the occasion of de Sarthe Gallery exhibition:

June 13 - August 2, 2015

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