During the presentation, the artist will have two performances at Para Site’s booth at the following times.
Tuesday, 21 March 2023, 3-4 pm
Thursday, 23 March 2023, 3-4 pm
巴塞爾藝術展香港展會期間，藝術家將於Para Site展位帶來兩場現場行為表演：
2023年３月2１日，星期二，下午3至4時
2023年３月2３日，星期四，下午3至4時
The exhibition is co-organised by Assistant Curators Kobe Ko and Cusson Cheng. 是次展覽由高穎琳與鄭家醇聯合策劃。
Visual Design 平面設計：
Harold Chan 陳碩智
Since Art Basel Hong Kong’s inaugural edition in 2013, Para Site has maintained the tradition of highlighting the work of emerging Hong Kong artists at the annual fair. Alumni of the Para Site booth at Art Basel Hong Kong include To Kai On Benny (2022), Chan Ka Kiu (2019), Law Yuk Mui (2018), Lau Wai and Wong Wing Sang (2017), Andio Lai (2016), Sarah Lai Cheuk Wah (2015), Lee Kai Chung (2014), and Ho Sin Tung (2013).
自2013年第一屆巴塞爾藝術展香港展會，Para Site藝術空間便貫徹栽培本地新晉藝術家的 宗旨。曾於巴塞爾藝術展香港展會Para Site展位展出的藝術家包括陶啟安（2022年）、 陳嘉翹（2019年）、羅玉梅（2018年）、劉衛與黃永生（2017年）、黎仲民（2016年） 、黎卓華（2015年）、李繼忠（2014年）以及何倩彤（2013年）。
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Quarry Bay, Hong Kong
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Para Site is delighted to collaborate with Hong Kong artist IV Chan to present newly-commissioned works in 'Poop Me to the Moon' at 2023 Art Basel Hong Kong. The collaboration is an extension of Chan's participation in Para Site's public programme 'PS Paid Studio Visits' initiated in May 2020, a free-to-attend online programme series of virtual studio visits to support local artists' livelihoods during COVID-19 shutdowns. To celebrate the finale of the virtual PS Paid Studio Visits series as life slowly resumes pre-pandemic pace, Para Site invites IV Chan to materialise her insights incubated from her participation in ‘PS Paid Studio Visits’ in the Para Site booth at Art Basel Hong Kong 2023. Fairgoers may also revisit the previous sessions at the booth and read through selected publications from previous institutional programmes.
Through her practice of creating soft anthropomorphic sculptures, installations, poetry, and performances, Chan reflects on her problematic bodily experiences, while addressing themes revolving around body politics, psychoanalysis, base materialism, and mythology. Probing the idea of a 'problematic body', her research explores alternate perspectives and anticipations of one's mortal flesh. In this presentation, the artist employs Julia Kristeva's psychoanalytic concept of 'abjection' to revisit her childhood memories, exploring the boundaries between enjoyment and anxiety through a child’s worldview.
In the Para Site booth, Chan sets up a wooden structure that resembles the bunk bed she had shared with her sister in their childhood bedroom. With soft sculptures and carpet designs resembling human excrement oozing out of the structure and spilling over the floor, this intimate yet uncanny space materialises a child’s longing for a mother’s attention and grief for her absence. The artist also includes four wall pieces consisting of embroidered underpants framed in children’s magnetic drawing boards. Turning objects of shame into trophies, these small sculptures represent the child's desire to regain the mother's approval and once again become her object of desire.
Para Site藝術空間榮幸於巴塞爾藝術展香港展會（2023年3月21至25日）呈獻陳子雯（IV Chan）的全新委託項目「溺星泄月」。2020年5月Para Site藝術空間推出「PS Paid Studio Visits」，一系列免費對公眾開放的線上工作室探訪計劃，以支持本地藝術家在新冠疫停情工 期間的生計。陳子雯作為其中一位受訪藝術家，是次合作是該計劃的延伸。為慶祝工作室探訪 系列完滿結束，同時生活亦逐步回復至疫情前的節奏，Para Site邀請陳子雯在2023年巴塞爾 藝術展香港展會中更進一步闡釋她在「PS Paid Studio Visits」的分享及見解。觀眾亦可在展 位重溫過往不同的工作室探訪片段及本機構的出版物。
透過擬人化的軟雕塑、裝置、詩詞及行為，陳子雯反省自己可疑的人身經歷，同時圍繞身體 政治、精神分析、基礎物質主義及神話展開創作。提出「疑惑的身體」(problematic body) 的概念，陳氏的研究探討人類內身另類觀點與懸念。當中藝術家借用茱莉亞·克莉斯蒂娃 （Julia Kristeva）所提出的「賤斥」精神分析概念，回溯其童年回憶，並從孩童世界觀的 角度摸索享樂與焦慮之間的界線。
藝術家將會在展位搭建一座木材結構，模仿其兒時與胞妹分享的雙層床。狀若人類排泄物的 軟雕塑從木架中傾瀉而出，與地毯的設計互相呼應——孩童於此既私密又怪異的空間內具體 化了其對母親關注的渴望，以及她不在場而導致的匱乏。展覽同時在牆身展示四件作品，由 經繡飾的內褲製成，裝裱於磁石畫板之內。內褲用來遮掩帶有「恥辱」的身體部位，而作品 則將其猶如戰利品般示眾，象徵孩童欲求重獲母親的認可，繼而再次成為她的慾望對象。
IV Chan’s practice explores the complexities of the human body and soul through sculptures, installations, and performances. She sees our corporeal existence as tragic and ludicrous; sordid and pure. While inspecting her own problematic bodily experiences, she is fascinated by the interrelationship between original sin and its catharsis with a focus on the mother and child complex. Her tactile and somewhat playful sculptures touch upon the breadth of bodily experience and the metaphysical. She employs a range of techniques to piece together these interwoven narratives and concepts where textile is manipulated, sewn, punctured, and stuffed while coming into contact with an array of other media from beading to wax.
Chan has received a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art, a Post Graduate Diploma in Visual Art from Goldsmiths University of London, and an MFA from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Chan was selected to be an artist in residence at Tai Kwun in 2021 which resulted in a performance of her work What did mother not tell me at the JC Cube. She also took part in the Para Site Paid Studio Visits in 2020, a programme initiated in response to the pandemic. Apart from exhibiting, Chan has extended her artistic interests to art direction and costume design for films and theatre productions. Chan is currently a part-time lecturer at The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
陳子雯的藝術實踐運用雕塑、裝置及行為探索人身體與靈魂的複雜性。在她看來， 我們的人身存在既可悲又荒謬，既齷齪又純潔。她檢視自己可疑的人身經歷，着迷 於原罪與其淨化之間的關係，尤其是戀母情結的宣洩。她充滿觸感與玩味的雕塑涉 獵林林總總的身體與形而上體驗。她的創作內，布料被挪用、縫紉、刺穿並填塞， 混合一系列其他媒介包括蠟、串珠，從而拼湊與交織出多重的敘事及理念。
陳氏擁有馬里蘭藝術學院純藝學士學位、倫敦金匠大學視覺藝術深造文憑，以及香 港中文大學純藝碩士學位。她曾於2021年為大館駐留藝術家，並於賽馬會藝方演出 作品《What did mother not tell me》。她亦曾於2020年參與Para Site Paid
Studio Visits項目——一個為回應全球疫情而開發的項目。除展覽外，陳氏亦從事 電影與戲劇的美術指導及服裝設計。陳氏現於香港中文大學任兼職講師。