心性与灵隐

候鸟空间这次的群展“心性与灵隐”汇集了三位中国当代艺术家的作品：居住在德国柏林的夏鹏和于林汉，以及在沈阳生活的于艾君。他们三人本次展出的作品都对技术高速发展、虚拟现实走入日常的这个新的语境下人与自然的关系进行了感性的思考。虽然他们三人思考的方法有许多不同，但他们的作品的共同之处在于某种“回归自然”的企图。当然，“回归自然”中的“自然”对于他们每个人来说也有着不同的涵义。

“On Nature and Insanity” assembles the work of three contemporary artists from China: Xia Peng and Yu Linhan, both based in Berlin, and Yu Aijun, living and working in Shenyang. Each of them tackles the problem of perception in a world that is increasingly dominated by techno-logy and virtual reality. Although quite distinct from another and each different in their approach, their paintings & drawings unite in an attempt to restore a feeling of nature and a na-tural state of mind — whatever that may mean. 

It does not come as a surprise that their artistic attempts oftentimes seem to border on the verge of insanity. Yet, “insanity”, as Jean Dubuffet has famously said, “is super-sanity”. It is in this sense that their works function on a meta-level in opening up different perspectives on our “nature”, such as, literally, land- and sea-scapes, as well as industrial environments and virtual reality. In face of a world in which nature is radically transformed by the artificial, “insanity” might not seem so insane after all.