黑桥村：一种微观叙事 Heiqiao Village: A Micro-Narration

What is the identity of art? Has contemporary art gradually become an exclusive, convergent look, exterior open yet inner closed authoritative system? How to give the increasingly cold and rigid contemporary art a bit warm feeling? And how an artist today could intervene the related social issues by practicing in art? The exhibition thus following questions mentioned above, and trying to do a kind of visual sociological investigation in a microcosmic level, expressing viewpoints on social problems, at the same time discovering and revealing the unique aesthetics and poetry that can only be revealed by art through the transformation from the normally dim, hidden and trivial things in daily mundane life.

The theme of this exhibition is evolved around a place called Black Bridge village, where located in the urban-rural fringe area outside east fifth ring zone in Beijing, that is not far from 798 art zone and the bustling Wangjing, but it feels like Beijing’s Third World. Since it has a relatively lower cost of living, thousands of workers from other places in China come to stay, and it also attracted lots of young artists. Huang Min is just one of them. Black Bridge, for Huang Min, is a place where the rapid unknown future overlaps the unclear murky past. Therefore, this exhibition is going to show a multi-sliced Black Bridge society in different media and dimensions, to build a magical realistic view by using mixed media. It is also going to break the usual exhibition mode, introduce multi-variable, inviting other artists and students in local primary school to create works for the exhibition, to show Black Bridge in different perspectives, and look for the starting point for the relationship of art and society through the fixed art space and the moving social space.