美丽新世界
2021
个展
中央美术学院 北京
概述
《美丽新世界》源于艺术家在山西乡村、煤矿社区与北京之间的迁移经历。展览探讨工业化、资源开采、城市化与环境变化如何改变了与其家庭历史相关的地方。
展览以取水为贯穿线索，汇集虚拟环境、数字版画、影像、模型与空间研究，探讨乡村生活、工业生产及相互竞争的进步观念之间的关系。
Foreword
This body of work, Brave New World, was created around the environments in which I grew up.
As someone who grew up in the city, when I look back at the environments in which my father’s generation grew up and their pursuit of an ideal modern life, I feel a profound sense of difference and dislocation. The development and transformation of society as a whole have created enormous differences between different places. From Quan’ergou Village, the hometown of the Hei family, to the mining area where I grew up, and then to Beijing today, I feel like a traveller moving constantly through different times and spaces. At one moment I am in a cave dwelling in the countryside; at another, I am standing beneath a mountain of coal; and in the next instant I find myself amid the prosperity of Beijing. These sharply contrasting environments give me a strong sense of dislocation, and I try to understand what connects them. It was from the perspective of environment that I began this body of work.
In this series of works, I use the water pump as a symbol of industrialisation. Pumping water is an indispensable part of coal mining. During the mining process, groundwater needs to be pumped out in order to make extraction possible. The water pump therefore becomes a medium connecting resources and production.
Coal mining is directly related to the hydrological ecology of the surrounding rural areas. The village originally had streams and springs, which is why it was named Quan’ergou. However, as coal production in the surrounding area increased and urbanisation accelerated, the water in the village gradually disappeared. Over time, there was no longer enough water to sustain life in the village, and even farming became difficult. Younger residents also followed recruitment into the coal mines and went to work there. My father was one of them. They made the most glorious contribution to the construction of this Brave New World, making the cities increasingly prosperous.
Sometimes I wonder:Which piece of coal lit the lamp in front of me?
I keep asking:What is a Brave New World?
17 October 2021
Hei Qiang
Hei Qiang
田野调查
展览源于对山西泉儿沟村的研究。当地水资源条件的变化、煤炭开采与工业发展，逐渐改变了村庄的景观与日常生活方式。
数字版画系列
数字版画系列从重建的村庄景观中提取出水与生命、农业与工业、生产与消费之间的关系，以及村民身份在不同代际中的变化。
人离开了，其他生物似乎是不大受影响
从务农到务工，从村民到市民，家乡人的身份发生了一场蜕变。远方工厂里的水泵抽走了村里的地下水，也将家乡人从那个旧世界带离。
煤炭开采过程中需要大量抽取地下水
我们必须一直生产资源 才能维护今天的美好生活
但美好又总是此消彼长的
从上世纪五十年代起
村子里的河流逐渐减少
曾经遍布河岸的鹅卵石也鲜少有了
不同代人对村子的记忆也完全不一样
靠天吃饭还是靠人吃饭？
身处乌托邦
作品将现代生活呈现为由教育、工作、家庭与生育构成的循环，追问“理想生活”如何被定义，又如何被持续复制。
水的迁徙
XR / 虚拟制片实验, 2021
《水的迁移》以抽水泵为连接自然资源与工业生产的媒介。作为一项运用虚幻引擎（Unreal Engine）、XR 与虚拟制作技术的早期实验，作品将泉儿沟村中经过重建的元素，与通常不会出现在同一物理空间中的工业物件并置。
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