To commemorate Women's History Month in March, OH Art Foundation presents the group exhibition "The Age of Liberation." The exhibit will be held on the Volossom Gallery, third floor of the Zhou B Art Center from March 13th to April 14th.
This exhibition showcases the works of two female artists: Mo Chen 陈默, and Xiao Lu 肖鲁. They explore different media such as painting, performance, installation, and new media art. Their works of art reflect their concerns and creative inspirations related to feminism, women's social issues, and femininity.
Mo Chen 陈默 is the curator of this exhibition. She and Xiao Lu 肖鲁 are two very different female artists who were born in different decades and are also at different stages of their artistic development. By presenting their respective concerns about women's topics and their different attitudes towards these issues, she aim to observe the common and different social contradictions faced by the feminist movement across different countries, times, social environments, and cultural customs. These observations are intriguing and thought-provoking, and encourage us to reflect on the new and more complex moral and social issues that feminism faces in our current era: a time of greater intellectual and technological advancements and emancipation, a time of neutralized or crossing-sectional sexual identities, which she consider to be "the age of liberation".
“My paintings are abstract, metaphoric, and atmospheric. The images not only suggest visual ideas, but also capture the atmosphere through abstraction, allowing memories to hide behind imaginative descriptions and boundaries to dissolve, giving way to expansive spaces.
The works I have selected for this exhibition explore the many facets of femininity, such as beauty, innocence, tenderness, mystery, as well as fragility, ugliness, and darkness. Through abstract language, they express the range of psychology, experiences, and emotions that women encounter, from their delicate and nurturing qualities to their darker, more complex aspects.”
Xiao Lu (Chinese: 肖鲁, born 1962) is a Chinese artist who works with installation art and video art. She became famous in 1989, when she participated in the 1989 China/Avant-Garde Exhibition with her work, Dialogue. Just two hours after the exhibition opened, she suddenly shot her own work with a gun, causing an immediate shutdown of the exhibition. When the Tiananmen Square massacre occurred four months later, her actions were heavily politicized, referred to as “the first gunshots of Tiananmen”. Dialogue (1989) is often regarded as China's first major feminist contemporary work of art.
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