The Only Question Is How to Endure. Works from Towards Evenings: Six Chapters
Dates: 10.3.2018-27.5.2018
Opening hours: 10:00-17:00(closed on Mondays)
Location: OCAT Xi’an
Address: Beichitou 1st Road, Yanta District, Xi’an, China
Website: official web page
Since 2012, the artist Chen Zhe has started her long term project Towards Evenings: Six Chapters, talking about individual inner feelings toward the surroundings, especially confusions and fears upon the unknowns occurred when one looking at the dusk. In fact, Chen Zhe has already begun to discover the human inner perceptions in her early works. Behind those pain, fright and indulgence, according to Chen Zhe, there is something beautiful, or precisely, they all mix together one and another. And this is the feature of all the works from Towards Evenings: Six Chapters.
This exhibition presents works of different materials and media like photography, archiving pictures and installations, in which one video will be exhibited the first time.
Chen Zhe was born in 1989, graduated from Art Center College of Design in 2011, now she lives and works in Beijing. Her works have been exhibited in the 11th Shanghai Biennale, in Sadie Coles Gallery in London, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing and Minsheng Art Museum in Shanghai. She has received Kassel Photobook Award, Inge Morath Award from Magnum Foundation and has participated in the shootings of documentary films of the French channel ARTE and Japanese channel NHK.