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Exhibition
Well-WishesDuration_ November 9, 2018–January 5, 2019
Opening_ Friday, November 9, 6–8 PM Curator_ Sun Dongdong |
VACANCY
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Gallery Vacancy is pleased to announce Well-Wishes, a group exhibition featuring 11 artists: Chen Fei, Ceal Floyer, He Xiangyu, Huang Ran, Li Ming, Los Carpinteros, Ni Hao, Qiu Xiaofei, Tao Hui, Xu Qu, and Yang Jian. The exhibition will be held from November 9, 2018 to January 5, 2019. Curated by Sun Dongdong, Well-Wishes marks Gallery Vacancy’s first anniversary and takes place in both the three-story gallery space and the old lane houses across the narrow pathway in the same lane. Situated near the crossroads of Middle Wulumuqi Road and Changle Road, in the Former French Concession area in Shanghai, these lane houses were built around the 1940s and are nowadays surrounded by Huashan Hospital, Shanghai Conservatory of Music, and Shanghai Theatre Academy. While the gallery façade was constructed with delicate architectural details, the lane houses opposite the gallery, on the other hand, look packed and shabby, revealing the undisguised traces of life from generations of families living there. Being in the center of Shanghai City, these lane houses have transformed into high-turnover, short-term rentals to accommodate travellers from across the country, whether they are visiting relatives in Huashan Hospital or taking entry exams in nearby academies. Both the gallery space and the short-term rentals reflect the reproduction of existing spaces on a microscopic scale and underline the prevailing conditions of social hierarchy in its habitation. The exhibition, Well-Wishes, tends to surpass the idea of division in sociology and the binary opposition of belief in rich and poor by extending the exhibition space to the short-term rental rooms within the same compound, and to hypothetically unveil inner energies projected from different entities of lives, through mutual experiences in the residence.
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