Fostering Transcultural Artistic Dialogue
ZII is dedicated to connecting intercultural characteristics between communities and strives to facilitate the development of cross-cultural artists.
30 August – 29 September, 2024
Exhibition Opening: Friday, 30 August 2024
University Women’s Club, 2 Audley Square, London, W1K1DB
Oriented by Dialect:
Those Diffracted Scenes among us
The exhibition explores the encounter of “Dialect” through the unique use of medium and interpretation in the works of young artists who met in London but hail from various places. It also addresses an alternative return to “marginal regions” in the context of globalized localization, seeking ways to reconstitute society through metaphor and allegory, and finding a homeland and personal narrative that transforms with the flow of people.
Dialect 方言
Divination 方术
Discipline 方法
Oriented by Dialect:
Those Diffracted Scenes among us
方言之方：他们白话喃喃
Artists:
Beichen Zhang
Dien Berziga
Harley Roberts
Ho-sa Wang
Khushboo
Koori Din
Laiba Raja
Mizuki Nishiyama
Neo Jiapu Gao
Wen-Hsuan Chang
Wenhui Hao
Wei Xiong
Curated by Alice Sun & Regina Liu
Homeland, weather, food, community, memory or other factors intermittently affect the curling of the tongue and tension of movement. How does the same object carry our dialect in foreign lands? Can we invoke our dialect into the “things of others'' through our actions?
Opening Event: 5 – 9 pm, Friday, 30th August, 2024
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The dialects of each artist’s reflection, reasoning, and presentation form a murmuring rhyme or ballad, weaving into a counterforce that gently flicks away the vast discourse, cultural symbols and political contexts that envelop their social identity.
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Coined by geography and human habits, dialects serve as a folk Scherzo to the grand political system and its ethnic communities, referring to a polyphonic narrative between “dwellers” and “outsiders”. Our dialects are also influenced by “things” (non-human actors and factors).
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The dialects of each artist’s reflection, reasoning, and presentation form a murmuring rhyme or ballad, weaving into a counterforce that gently flicks away the vast discourse, cultural symbols and political contexts that envelop their social identity.
"Compelled by the unseen-scenes between scenes, where memory and experience keep dissolving. Approaching reality, diagonally. The unnerving, uncanny, and fascinating nature of masks. An entrance to a concealed opening. The horror of the infinite horror. "
--Harley Roberts
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Xiong Wei
Wei's project focuses on artificially defined invasive species, animals initially taken out of their original habitats and into unfamiliar environments due to human activities, desires and consumption. They were then abandoned again because of the threat they posed to the local ecosystem.
Xiong Wei
The exhibition showcases four of Xiong's projects, including one that explores cats as the invasive species that arrived in New Zealand from the UK. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, a large number of European immigrants poured into New Zealand, and cats became the defenders immigrants brought along with to protect their food. These cats thus followed them to New Zealand. Then, because of the following dramatic decline in New Zealand's bird population, the government designated cats as the “invasive alien species”.
Metal-glazed ceramics present the local features of these animals, which are hidden in the spatial structure of the sculpture, conveying the fragility of invasive species under their aggressive and stubborn image.
In Yak, the physical and physiological experience on the verge of the border liberating the smell, taste, rhythm, and light remembered by the body continuing to burn, sting, and grasp the profound things.
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Surface and texture play a defining role in Dien's painting. By employing latex, impasto, and delicate layers of paint, he attempts to create visually captivating and tactile experiences on the canvas.
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In one of her exhibited works “The whisper of Past”, the tactile piece is inspired by the trade journey of the wool that is collected in different parts of the world and is cleaned and processed mostly in Eastern Asia. When the wool was sent back afterwards, it would have traces of being mixed up with wools from other regions in the cleaning process. The chain stitches on the piece are broken archival maps of the colonial trade routes connecting Europe to present Asia and South Asia.
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30 August – 29 September, 2024
Exhibition Opening: Friday, 30 August 2024
University Women’s Club, 2 Audley Square, London, W1K1DB
Oriented by Dialect: Those Diffracted Scenes among us
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