Group Exhibition: It’s Time to Reduce the Backlog
A Curated Group Exhibition
LATITUDE Gallery is pleased to present this group exhibition of work by 30 young contemporary artists. Exhibition: IT'S TIME TO REDUCE THE BACKLOG! Curated by Jingru Li and Leo Yuan, both in gallery and online, more than 20 pieces artwork selected from hundreds of applications will be on view till 14th of March, 2021.
Huanzhe Hu
Ruminate, 2020
Site-specific Installation
documented via video
Yinglin Zhou
Square Deception, 2020
4K Video
Yuxiao Ran
你在床上看风景, 2019
Painting
Sizuo Chen
Memes, 2020
Video
Tinwai Wong
Score, 2021
Framed printed paper
Yuqing Lin
She is lost control, 2020
Mix media Installation
Cong Yu
Fugue 赋格, 2020
Video
Tiantian Ma
Submergin, 2020
Painting
LeileiXia
Frame, 2020
Video
Yue Liu
400 discarded objects, 2020
Jingyan Weng
Dinner Is Ready, 2020
Video with sound
Alexander Si
Unboxing, 2020
Single-channel video
Zhenfei Sun
摸着石头过河, 2021
Painting
Ellen Bjerborn
Like4Like, 2020
Video
Mengyao Zhang
Heart Signal, 2020
Installation
Yangcheng Guo
Longing Extinction, 2020
Video
Feiyang Zhang
Under Water, 2020
Video
The idea for this exhibition originated from Latitude’s wish to provide a platform for those who had continued to work and create art in an unusual and trying time. The works exhibited are selected from an open call which received more than a hundred submissions. The selection reflected the curatorial team’s aim to survey the landscape of contemporary art made by young, emerging artists, whose practices take on a wide range of media, including painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, video, performance and textiles.
Not only conversant in a multitude of artistic vocabularies, the artists presented are also well immersed in a variety of cultural influences. The majority of artists in the show received their art education partially or entirely in the US while also having a cultural background in Asian countries. As such, the works selected draw on both Western and Eastern artistic practices and philosophical traditions, and comment on issues both local and transnational.
Building on an expansive network of diasporic Asian artists, this exhibition, as well as Latitude Gallery as a project, operates at the intersection of various cultural influences.
The recent events in America and on the global stage prompted a renewed feeling of importance in negotiating a sense of identity, which might not necessarily be the subject of the works exhibited, but is reflected in their fluid aesthetic sensibilities and hybrid conceptual strategies.
