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The exhibition presents Bingyi’s latest grand, speculative narrative about art and its relationship to history, reimagined from a woman’s point of view.
The exhibition is presented as the long-lost artworks of Hua, the fictional Northern Song Matriarch of Painting, rediscovered and ‘archaeologically excavated’ by artist Bingyi from a Song Dynasty temple site in the Taihang Mountains, partly based on historical clues and partly on personal imagination. In Bingyi's series of speculative reconstructions, Hua is not only a pioneering female artist in Chinese art history but also a visionary philosopher. Independent of the great masters of the Song Dynasty landscape painting and the subsequent male literati painting tradition, Hua created an alternative aesthetic system that decentred the patriarchal, Confucian, brush and ego-centric mode of literati landscape painting and recentred the expressive possibilities of brush-and-ink on water, on Taoism, on nature, and on the creative experiences of women.
Courtesy of Asia Society Hong Kong Center
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