艺术家| Artist: 蒲英玮| Pu Yingwei

开幕时间| Opening：2017.3.4  16：00

展览时间| Exhibition Dates：3.4 - 4.7.2017

地点|Venue：

蜂巢（北京）当代艺术中心| Hive Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing)

地址|Add.

北京市酒仙桥路4号798艺术区E06 |

E06, 798 Art Distrct, Chaoyang Distrct, Beijing, China

蜂巢当代艺术中心“蜂巢·生成”项目即将于2017年3月4日至4月7日在D、E厅推出第二十四回展：“游牧小说：蒲英玮个人项目”。2017年的“蜂巢·生成”将聚焦海外留学的中国年轻艺术家的系列个展，本次展览推出的年轻艺术家蒲英玮出生于1989年，2013年自四川美术学院毕业后，至今就读于法国里昂国立高等美术学院。蒲英玮的创作以文献研究的方式展开，他认为个体的经验与记忆是作为世界存在的证据。此次展览所有的作品与空间陈设都来自于作者自2013年居住在法国后开始的关于异域文化与少数人种的收藏。通过影像、装置、照片、绘画、文本等不同媒介的表达方式，这些感性的档案在跨越了种族、国家、宗教、语言、殖民等宏大叙事后，最终降落在作者自传式的个人史写作上。在这个项目中，展览涉及的所有文本都成为展览的一部分。

 “游牧小说”简介

蒲英玮转达我写下这些文字：他说在他目前为止并不算漫长的二十几年生命中，他从未看清过自己，也从未记住过自己。谈话是他一如既往的呓语，时常谈过了就忘，也时常在言行中表露真实。之后通过那些和他交谈过的人的口中我依稀察觉到，他是一个飘忽不定的人。有人曾经说他是黑人、白人、或是亚洲人，也有人曾经看到他的身影出没在城市的广场、乡村的小径或是热带的雨林。没有人可以清晰地记得他到底长什么样，但恰好我作为他为数不多的信任伙伴，对于他每次重要的谈话我都有所了解。我渐渐通过这些谈话编织出了一个他的肖像，结果则令我意外而又欣慰：那是一幅我见过的最普通的肖像，你可以在他的面孔上看到任何人和任何事件的影子。而说到他下面的这些感悟，他很坚持，他曾一再强调这些言辞就像菲利普·索莱尔斯（Philippe Sollers）的那本著作“一部真正的小说——回忆录”一样真实，他也在相当多的场合提起那本他爱不释手的蒂莫西·嘉顿艾什（Timothy Garton Ash）的《档案：个人史》。出于好奇，我找到这两本书来读，我开始理解了蒲英玮的狡猾，同时也开始同情他。在我写下这些文字的时候，他一再叮嘱我说这些呢喃文字是他所致力于研究的一本绝对意义上的理论，或一本关于一切的象征。

                                                                                                          ——《备忘录》

蒲英玮简介：

蒲英玮，曾用名蒲英桐，1989年出生于山西太原。普通家庭，独生子女。其母亲是一名市立医院的医生，日常爱好看电视剧，最远的地方去过海南。其父亲是一名卫生监督所的公务员，日常爱好书法与古玩，最远的地方去过上海。在童年时期，他的家庭居住在一间五十平米的两室一厅中，他每天步行去不远的地方上小学。在2000年，他家搬到了一间八十平米的三室一厅，房屋由其父亲的单位分配所得，他开始骑自行车上学。由于蒲英桐的学习成绩总是稀松平常，他的父母决定给他改名，因为“蒲桐”听起来很像“普通”。最终，在2002年将要进入初中之前，他开始使用一个新名字，蒲英玮。

Hive Becoming XXIV will announce the Roman Nomade: Pu Yingwei Solo Project in hall D and E from March 4th to April 7th. The Hive Becoming project 2017 plans to present serials solo exhibitions of young artists who have foreign education background. The first artist Pu Yingwei is born in 1989, after his graduation from Sichuan Fine Art Institute in 2013, he continued his study at École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Lyon. Pu Yingwei's creation based on his research of literature, he believes that the individual experience and memory are evidences for one exists in the world. In this exhibition, all works and displays are from the artist's collection on exotic culture and minority races from 2013 since he moved to France. Through different medias such as video, installation, photography, painting, and text; the artists crosses the boundaries of race, country, religion, language, finally he created his personal history. For this project, all texts that provided by the artist are part of the show, included in his profile and proposal.   

Introduction of Roman Nomade

Pu Yingwei conveyed me to write down these words: He said in his current twenty years of life, he never saw himself clearly, and never remembered himself. The way he talks always like a daydreaming, often forget what have been talked about, but expresses true feelings. Then through the mouths of those who talked to him, I vaguely aware that he is an erratic person. Some people once said that he was a Black, a White, or an Asian; some people have seen him in a city square, a country's trails, or a tropical rainforest, no one can reemerged his appearance in mind. While just as his few trusted partners, for each of his important discourse I know a thing or two. I gradually weave a portrait through these fragmentary conversations; the result is surprising and gratifying: it is the most common portrait that I have seen; one can catch a shadow of any person and any event in his face. As referring to the following insights, he repeatedly insisted that these words were as true as Philippe Sollers' book, A True Novel - Memoirs, and he also mentioned Timothy Garton Ash's File: Personal History in quite a number of occasions. Out of curiosity, I found the two books to read; I began to understand a cunning Pu Yingwei, but also began to sympathize with him. When I wrote these words, he told me that he treated the whisper words as an absolute sense of theory that he is committed to his study, or a symbol of everything.

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About Pu Yingwei

Pu Yingwei, used name Pu Yingtong, was born in Taiyuan, Shanxi Province, in 1989. He is the only child in an ordinary family. His mother is a doctor at a municipal hospital, she likes watching TV dramas; the fastest place his mother has been to is Hainan. Pu Yingwei's father is a civil servant at a health supervision institute, and he likes writing calligraphy and collecting antique, the fastest place his father has been to is Shanghai. During Pu Yingwei's children hood, his family lived in a fifty-square-meters two-bedroom apartment, He walked to primary school from home every day. In 2000, his family moved to a eighty-square-meter apartment with three bedrooms, this place is distributed by his father's employer, since then, Pu Yingwei started go to school by bicycles. Because Pu Yingwei's school record was barely scrape through, his father thought the reason is that Pu Yingwei's original name "Putong" has the similar pronunciation with the word "common". So he decided to use the new name Pu Yingwei before he got in middle school in 2002.