Good Good Humor Day Day Art in the Rack Room #34: An Exploration by Our MBA Contemporary Arts: Collecting, Sales, and Display students
Exhibition presenting the works of: Yuqiu Mao, Rui Yamaguchi, Sojin Kim, Jianze Zhao
Curated by: Good Good Humor Day Art Group, IESA Paris
Opening: Tuesday, June 25, 2024, from 18:00 to 20:00
Exhibition dates: June 25 to 28, 2024
The GOOD GOOD HUMOR DAY DAY ART exhibition project presented a series of works by Asian artists based in Europe with intercultural backgrounds. The selected works included a series of installations by Chinese artist Yuqiu Mao; video works by Japanese performance artist Rui Yamaguchi; video works by Korean artist Sojin Kim; and performances and workshops by another Chinese artist, Jianze Zhao.
The exhibition used the differences between Eastern and Western cultures as a source of inspiration and explored the challenges of identity and confusion that Eastern artists living in foreign countries often face when they are culturally lost, and "humor" can be a way to break this dilemma and allow wanderers to enter the situation of leaving the world with a more comfortable attitude.
About the Artists:
Yuqiu Mao, China:
Yuqiu Mao is an artist interested in the violence generated by mutual games in interpersonal communication. In her series of installations, notably the work Mandatory meeting mm 2023, imitating the shape of the Judas chair, the artist uses a humorous way to reshape the source of violence or record the process of violence.
Rui Yamaguchi, Japan:
Rui Yamaguchi is an artist who creates performance-based video works. He visualizes the boundaries that divide our consciousness, such as language, culture, and geopolitical themes, and explores ways to overcome, merge, or separate them. His witty video work Unbalanced Walk 2024 uses a trembling umbrella as a metaphor for the struggle to live in Paris as an immigrant artist. At the same time, it also symbolizes the turmoil in the world during the war between Palestine and Israel.
Sojin Kim, Korea:
Sojin Kim is an artist who lives and works in Berlin, Germany. She mainly makes experimental videos and performances. The work Tear Garten 2021 tells the story of the artist’s failed love affair ten years ago, in which she turns around while walking in Berlin’s Tiergarten. The point of interest is that the artist calls this work a digital poem, because it is meant to be read and not performed.
Jianze Zhao, China:
Finalist artist Jianze Zhao, a political artist and flâneuse based in London, graduated from the Royal College of Art. Her practice is interested in the critique of care, everyday life practices, humor, and diaspora.
In his recent performance "Imitate newspaper" 2024, one perceives a sense of humor sparked by language barriers. When all translations of language and images fail, a creature arriving in a foreign country begins to use its own body to process information and images in order to broadcast them.
As an introduction to Berlin for our artists, the project GOOD GOOD HUMOR DAY DAY ART aimed to show sharp and humorous glimpses of everyday life through the works of four artists, while dismantling the indescribable situation and rediscovering the vitality of life.
AT LAGE EGAL [IN THE RACK ROOM]
Liselotte-Herrmann-Str. 26 (HH), 10407 Berlin
Press contact:
goodgoodhumordaydayart@gmail.com
T+33 66857787 (Yaqi Chen)
About LAGE EGAL
Lage Egal Curatorial Projects, launched by French artist-curator Pierre Granoux in 2012, is an innovative exhibition concept based in Berlin, Germany. Its name is also a playful anagram meaning "regardless of location" and refers to the use of constantly changing spaces and experimental exhibition formats.