Nabuqi: Geopoetics regarding a waterless sea
WHAT
The Beijing-based Mongolian artist’s 3rd exhibition with the gallery centres around an eponymous novel by author Chen Si’an written for this exhibition. Her new body of sculptures and installations are displayed through the gallery’s different floors as well as rooftop, investigating the changes of time, memory, spirituality and faith, the distinction between land and sea, and the intertextual relationship between literature and sculpture.
WHY
The artist uses geography and local histories as metaphors, and often uses found images in her art, combining photographic and sculptural forms through either incongruous or harmonious combinations. The sea is the underlying theme of her new exhibition, and explores migrations within sociological and anthropological contexts.