We are pleased to announce the opening of Ding Shiwei Solo Exhibition at 4 p.m. on March 9, 2019 at One Way Gallery. Curated by Feng Xi, the exhibition presents Ding Shiwei’s latest works completed in a creation cycle of two years. The layout of the exhibition centers the central axis of the gallery, and its linear physical laws enable viewers to perceive the logical order concluded by the artist, in response to the “questions” raised by “questions”.
“What we talk about when we talk about sea horizon & moon?” The question is the starting point of the project, and also a question that the artist wants to ask viewers. This is the “origin” of the project, and the logic of the question is the beginning as well as the end.
There are five works in the main exhibition hall on the first floor, each raising a different question. These questions, interwoven together, have established a common consciousness of paradox, and the interdependence developed from their origin forms the specified mainline of the exhibition context. Under Malevich’s influence, the geometric forms of square and circle are regarded as nearly perfect. They are the core components of the reciprocating discussion based on the concept of time in the exhibition context. Centering the progressive nature of paradox, Fragments of Civilizations suspended in the axis of the hall presents a path of attraction, collision and disappearance. The eternal connection between, as well as the value produced by, the gaze at the Moon and the origin of human consciousness, and the order established by the “artificial sea level”, these elements are arranged with the logic of exhibition language in the main hall, and eventually surround us with a square of “solid oceans”.
The separate installation presented in the hall on the second floor is composed of a square water pool and a suspended rotating luminous Moon. With its endless surge, it forms an intertextual relationship with the works Circle and Dandelions and The Edge of the Earth in the main hall.
