Works by Song Dong, Yin Xiuzhen, and Sui Jianguo are currently presented in the group exhibition Matter: Energy Bound at Taoxichuan Art Museum, Jingdezhen. The exhibition is curated by Chief Curator Feng Boyi, together with Xue Xuan, Li Yifei, and Gao Wenjian.

“As a way of empowering contemporary art through material media, we have consistently paid attention to the dynamic phenomena of artist groups both in China and internationally. In the curatorial process, on the one hand, we emphasize the specificity and richness of material media. Their targeted expressions are not merely the ‘objectification’ of emotional warmth, but rather measurable spaces capable of breaking through established material orders. On the other hand, we reflect on the conventional tendency to project art onto material media, reconstructing the imagined relationships between material and the human, and between material and art. This includes artists’ discovery, elevation, and interrogation of the natural laws and ecological values of all things, as well as the complexity and plasticity that give rise to different modes of material expression.

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In the exhibition’s presentation, we further derive five keyword-based sections—‘entanglement,’ ‘distortion,’ ‘cocooning,’ ‘confinement,’ and ‘restraint’—from the references embedded in the exhibition theme, attempting within the exhibition space to “name things with words” or to connect the tensions between ‘words and things’ related to ‘constraint.’ One may also observe that the participating artists’ works are not merely observations of or reactions to objective materials, but retain and metaphorically embed social relationships and cultural meanings. In doing so, the exhibition reinforces artistic creation as a mode of existence that releases and resists the disciplining of free life by constraint. Art enables us to perceive forces that are otherwise imperceptible.”

— Feng Boyi