Installation view, Observing My Distant Self: Kang Chunhui, First Floor, Exhibition Hall No.2, INKstudio

Observing My Distant Self: Kang Chunhui
Closing Friday, August 30, 2024

There’s still time to catch Kang Chunhui’s premiere solo show at INKstudio if you are in Beijing. Offering an immersive journey into a crucial juncture in the artist’s artistic development, Observing My Distant Self unfolds in two distinct sections, “Observing My Distant Self” and “Undeniably Me,” throughout the multi-level gallery with works ranging from an expansive, eight-part video to ink and mineral pigments on paper.

Occupying the entirety of INKstudio’s ground floor, Observing My Distant Self 73°40′E～96°23′E 34°25′N～48°10′N, 2019-2023, is an eight-part multimedia project comprised of 6’6”-long videos responding to Kang’s childhood dream in the form of a metaphorical pilgrimage to the Western Regions. Throughout her journey, Kang explores the boundaries between place, history, memory, self and creativity, conceiving them not as rigid territories but as expansive areas for exploration, exchange, synthesis and transformation.

On INKstudio’s third floor, Kang debuts new works in her Post-Modern synthesis of historical Central and East-Asian polychrome painting styles. These latest works explore such themes as resonances between Eastern and Western mythologies, the dialogical relationship between self and history through the landscape, and the transmutation of land into pigment into art.

Kang Chunhui is a female visual artist born in Urumqi and educated in Seoul who has entered the hallowed grounds of the literati landscape—populated since its inception exclusively by men—to assert herself as a contemporary artist with an uncompromising, distinctly feminine vision. Be sure to visit this fantastic exhibit before it closes on Friday, August 30th!

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