This catalogue published on the occasion of Yang Fudong's solo exhibition "Quote Out of Context". Over 50 of his major photography works and one video installation have been exhibited, showcasing his achievements from his early period up to now.
"All too often I find the epiphanies from serendipitous happenings to be of the highest significance. I would call this kind of learning process 'quote out of context'". - Yang Fudong.
The contemporary age is one characterised by the crisis of meaning. The 'meaning' of the general crisis of life and existence needs to be redefined and reinterpreted with fresh perspectives, new methods and techniques.'Quote out of context' is both Yang's own interpretation of the production of meanings as he himself is confronted with reality and tradition. It is also an attempt to express his attitude towards the meaning of life through the exhibited photography works and installation. With his unique mode of visual production (and by extension meaning production), Yang Fudong suggests to us that the fleeting moments and fragments he has supplied contain his personal understanding and visual interpretation of the secrets of life and meaning of existence.
Such a unique visual interpretation is inextricably linked to the characteristics of the media he employs (cinema, video and photography). These fragmentary (hence out of context) approaches to the interpretation of the world have close affinities with the reality of a contemporary society riven by the fragmentation of meaning and value systems, while meeting the requirements of meaning production characterised by multiple perspectives, instant capturing and switching with a view to establishing overarching connections. With 'out of context', Yang has made it possible for his intended interpretation of meanings to find full expression in reality. 'Out of context' is at once a technique and means of reflecting on and producing 'meaning' and an attitude towards 'meaning' itself.
Yang Fudong has been known for capturing 'serendipitous epiphanies' rooted in reality with a heightened sensitivity and tension and transforming them into visual opportunities to showcase the complex and often ambiguous meanings caught between reality and non-reality. Such sensitivity can only be derived from a profound'empathy' with the relation between life and art, without which no work that helps people to 'empathise' with the meaning of life could ever be created.
- Gu Zheng / Curator
SPECIFICATIONS
Publisher: China Academy of Art Publish House
ISBN: 9787550304703
265*195, hardcover
309 pages
Date of publication: 2013
Languages: Chinese, English
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