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No ×××××××× Hate

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SPURS Gallery is honored to announce that Lin Yilin's solo exhibition "No ×××××××× Hate" will be launched on March 19, 2022, which is the second time he has held at the gallery since "Starting from Her Feet" in 2017 Second solo exhibition. This exhibition will present 7 new video and sculpture works created by Lin Yilin in New York in the two years after the outbreak of the new crown epidemic. It will also show Typhoon, commissioned by M+ in Hong Kong in 2019, and 2017. The performance work “××××××××” commissioned by the Shenzhen-Hong Kong Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture is presented in the form of a video installation. Since the 1990s, Lin Yilin has been one of the leading figures in the Chinese contemporary art world. His art practice utilizes a variety of artistic creation methods and ideas, and responds and criticizes through physical experience and substantive intervention in the present. closely related social issues. Born in the 1960s, Lin Yilin has gone through multiple stages of social transformation and great changes in social life style. In recent years, the field has undoubtedly brought him into a new state of life and creation. "No ××××× ××× Hate” divides the emotion that can’t be spit into multiple meanings, and uses identity politics to reflect the artist’s personal perception and thinking about the outbreak of the epidemic and a series of racial events. Entering the exhibition hall, the work "True News" (2021) is plastered on the entire wall, in which the photos of the violent attack on the Chinese scavengers, which occupy a very small frame, are suppressed under the chaotic digital lines. Violent and disturbing sound waves are frozen in the sculpture "Useful" (2022), and it seems that someone's whistle can still be faintly heard. The partial form of "Sweet" (2022) pays tribute to Félix González-Torres, and it also ridicules and confronts the mechanism of power, intervening in the most intense American society with a number combined with personal identity. racial issues. The sculpture "20220201" (2022) also corresponds to the artist's identity number, reflecting the local color of culture, the coincidence of population and individual fortune. The black-and-white video work "20200313" (2020), also named after the number, marks an important moment in the United States. The general atmosphere of society is reflected on the face of the individual, foreshadowing a series of sad events. In the two-channel video "No Color" (2021), the current New York Mayor Eric Adams (Eric Adams) and a Chinese leader are both shouting the slogan "Stop Asian Hate" hoarsely, while Mr. Adams is campaigning In a speech at the time of the mayor, it was implied that the Chinese were people of color. The middle two channels of the Channel 4 video work "Non-News" (2021) are the records of two anti-Asian-hatred Chinese demonstrations, and the scenes on the two channels are the Chinese protests against former New York Mayor Bill de Blasey Bill de Blasio has pushed for legislation to abolish the entrance exam for elite high schools in public schools. These protests point to a stress response to the critical moment for the survival and development of ethnic minorities, but the "struggle" is unlikely to become mainstream media news.


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