Remain Magical Despite Cruelty - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1646820363 ISBN 13: 9781646820368

Publisher: Lov-Lov, 2019

Synopsis

Use of materials

Lin Jingjing has always been fascinated by photography, as she considers this medium a powerful virtual authority able to show the passage of time as well as its fragility, extant and vanishing evidence. Photography reminds the connection between past and present, moments of joy and sadness that document the impermanence of life and highlight the sense of loss.

Method of paradox

According to Lin Jingjing's introspective vision, understanding life is more real than culture and it transcends even history and politics. Her profound and meticulous observation of human behaviors let her understand the absurdity of life and that existence does not explain a meaning, but an infinite concept that could be seen as a dangerous defense, as she called in herprevious series 'Insecure Security'.

It was a kind of existence that comes from the infinite propagation of reality.

Though this infiniteness is not real, it is enough to be absurd. It is a different kind of truth within untruth, the truth of invisible truth, the untruth that overturns truth, the persistence of absurdity. In fearless and certainty, it creates power".

--- Lin Jingjing

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About the Author

Lin Jingjing is a conceptual visual artist whose work deals primarily with social-political themes. She is known for the wide range of approaches in her art, explores the depths of social and personal identity in the context of modern society, often examining themes such as confusion and quest, existence and absence, constraint and resistance through a lens of paradox. Of particular focus is how individuals define themselves amongst the effects of the outside world, vis-à-vis culture, politics, history, and the economy. Her artwork spans performance, installation, painting, mixed media, video, sound, LED lights. The surreal effect created via this method immerses the viewers into another consciousness. Jingjing 's works have been exhibited in major public museums and galleries, including de Sarthe, Hong Kong; Song Zhuang Art Museum in Beijing; Residency Unlimited(RU), New York; Neues Kunstforum, Cologne, Alexander Ochs Gallery, Beijing; Museo sin muros - Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Mall Plaza Vespucio, Santiago, Chile, Museo sin muros - Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Mall Plaza Trebol, Concepción, Chile; Whitebox Art Center, Beijing; Magee Art Gallery, Madrid. She has also exhibited in group exhibitions worldwide: Red Gate Gallery, Beijing; Long Museum, Shanghai; Right View Art Museum, Beijing; Third Biennale Italy-China, Turin; Galerie Herold/Künstlerhaus Güterabfertigung, Bremen /Germany; OV Gallery, Shanghai;Tree Art Museum, Beijing, Leonard Pearlstein Gallery at Drexel University, Philadelphia; Long De Xuan Contemporary Art Center, Beijing; Cruzando el horizonte: Exposición de Arte Contemporáneo de China, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile etc. Lin Jingjing currently lives and works in New York, USA, and Beijing, China. www.jingjinglin.com

Edition details

• Publisher: Lov-Lov
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1646820363
• ISBN 13: 9781646820368
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 104