《Towards Evening: Six Chapters》 CHEN Zhe

《Towards Evening: Six Chapters》 CHEN Zhe

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Towards Evening: Six Chapters is a journey in search of the nebulous space between day and night. The artist attempts to materialize her long fascination with the topic by experimenting with literature and images that are evocative of the intricate and transient experiences at dusk. The series is divided into six independent chapters, with the aim of revealing what we know as “the evening” through varied filters: “The Uneven Time”, “Nightfall Disquiet”, “The Red Cocoon”, “Between Identities”, “Two Kinds of Light”, and “Erebus”, and of exploring how we all absorb and are consumed by the phenomenon on a daily basis.

“Nothing is more mysterious than the ensemble of procedures, always identical and never predictable, by which night succeeds day. The first portent of these procedures is always a matter for doubt and anxiety. No one can tell what forms will be adopted, on this one particular occasion, by the night’s insurrection. ... I felt that if I could find the right words to describe these ever-changing phenomena, if I could communicate to others the character of an event which was never twice the same, then I should have penetrated or so I felt to the inmost secrets of my profession, ... and then I should have gained a vision of the indecipherable forces, the vapours and fulgurations whose obscure conflicts I have only glimpsed vaguely, within the depths of myself. ” (Claude Lévi-Strauss, Tristes Tropiques)The work on display is a selection from Chapter 1 ~ Chapter 3.