艺术家：Chiara Mu（意大利）
开幕酒会：2011.9.24, 12:00-19:00
展期：2011.9.25-9.27 （每天 12-19点）
地址：昆明市金鼎山北路15号，LOFT·金鼎1919，A区，943空间
电话：5385159
www.943studio.cn

“Your Land” site-specific installation
Artist: Chiara Mu（Italy）

Opening Reception: 2011.9.24, 12:00-19:00
Duration: 2011.9.25-9.27  
Open Hours: 12:00-19:00pm
Location: 943 Space, A Zone, Loft·JinDing 1919, North JinDing Shan Road No.15, Kunming
Tel: 5385159
www.943studio.cn

艺术家自述：

       本次在工作室空间创作的装置作品，将为本地观众、艺术家带来一种重新感知、审视时间和空间的尝试，这个时空尽量避开当下极其强大的经济因素（比如生产和消费）的影响。

       在作品中，我将把这个空间转换为一个“自由进出的避难所”，人们可以随意进出，没有任何约束。有的只是一片自然的、让你赤脚行走的红土，从工作室屋顶的透光玻璃瓦透进来的光线，会让这片红土显得愈发漂亮。

       云南红土—一块在过去二十多年里始终让云南艺术家魂牵梦绕的地方，那里曾激发过太多的艺术灵感，在今天这个经济飞速发展的时代，它仍在顽强地对抗着强大的城市化进程，成为回归自然、回归文化本源的一个符号。

       作品的另一个目的，是让土地（具体说是土）不再只是这个城市里随处可见的建筑工地上堆在一角的无用之物。还给红土作为代表云南地域文化的身份、及其激发灵感的独特价值，以此来反讽今天在中国各地司空见惯的“山寨”现象。

       备注：此次展览空间一次只能允许一位观众进入。

Artist Statement:

This site-specific installation in the space of the studio will give people, inhabitants and artists, the chance to reconnect with a perception of time and space that is not related to the capitalistic pressure of producing and consuming things.
I would like in this way to transform the space for few days in a ‘free-time sanctuary’, where people can come and just stay. There is no ticket to pay, no obligation to follow. There will be only red soil to walk barefoot into, in the beautiful light that comes from the transparent strips of the studio’s ceiling.
The soil comes from Yunnan, a specific area that has been taken by local artists in the past twenty years as a powerful inspiration and symbol of the return to cultural roots and to nature, against the fast growing economy system represented by the new city skyline.
The aim of the project is to “free” the land for being just another mean of production, left dying in the corners of constructions sites all over the city, and give it back its value of an inspirational reminder of Yunnan’s cultural identity and truth, against the ordinary phenomenon of faking places, things and objects common nowadays in China and especially here in Kunming.