香格纳画廊北京空间诚邀您参加杨振中个展——不要动。展览适逢2011草场地摄影季活动，将展示杨振中的摄影和录像作品，意在探求关于身份与叙述的思考。

空间的主展厅将以全屏投影占据空间的方式展示录像装置《不要动》（该作品曾于2001年为上海复兴公园的公共环境而创作），12个投影中的12个相同的人不停地说着同一句话“不要动”。在黑暗的展厅中，观者将被投影仪打亮的脸包围着，这些脸均以不同方向的移动、震动、或颤抖。“不要动”的声音从四周八方连续不断地传来，让人略感迷失而不知所措，而受摄像机影响而移动的脸则进一步强化了这种感觉。说话的人其实并没有动，动的仅仅是摄影机。

小展厅将展示杨振中2003年的一部重要作品《春天的故事》（从未在北京展览过）。作品源于西门子艺术项目，杨振中与上海西门子移动通信有限公司的1500名员工合作，创作了他们以流水线形式朗诵邓小平《南巡讲话》的过程。1992年，邓小平南巡视察改革开放成果，发表了这一极具影响力的演说，为中国30年经济增长目标所采取的经济政策取得强有力的支持。作品制作过程中，杨振中让每一位员工仅朗诵讲话中的几个字，然后通过剪辑完成整篇演说。每一位员工被赋予其在生产线上的职责，完成制作中的一部分，大家一起重新创作了这部演说，尤如他们为这家工厂和他们的工作所贡献的力量，体现了其各自的存在价值。

杨振中在二层展厅展出的是摄影新作《反了》，照片中的人物来自各行各业。他们虽然身着各自的衣服或者工作制服，前后却被穿反了。每个人物分别有面对和背对镜头两个画面，肖像的正反面构成一组照片。他们或是脸面对观众，而身上的衣服为背面；或是他们的社会身份（制服）正对观众，而脸却是隐匿着的。

身份与叙述，常被认为是普遍联系的；然而这三组作品均将其二者视为现实中分离的两个方面来进行处理。杨振中剖析了其二者在现实中的不同之处，以诗意的洞察力重构了其内在机制，并告之它们可以被组合，亦可以被分离。

杨振中（1968）出生于杭州，现工作、生活于上海。1994年其开始以摄影、装置、录像以及互动媒体等进行艺术创作以及艺术家自主展览的策划。其作品曾在国内外众多重要展览中展出，例如：第52届威尼斯双年展（2007），第五届亚太当代艺术三年展（2006），第三届福冈亚洲艺术三年展（2005），第二届广州三年展（2005），第50届威尼斯双年展（2003），第四届上海双年展（2002），第一届广州三年展（2002）等；其最近的个展有：天桥（Canvas International Art，荷兰阿姆斯特丹，2008），杨振中（NIKOLAJ，丹麦哥本哈根当代艺术中心，2008），前戏（香格纳H空间，上海，2006），杨振中（IKON画廊，英国伯明翰，2006）等。

秦思源
2011.3

Don’t Move — Yang Zhenzhong Solo Exhibition

Curator: Colin Chinnery

Opening: 23 April 2011, Saturday at 4pm
Exhibition Duration: April 24th – May 31st, 2011
Venue: ShanghART Beijing
Address: No. 261 Caochangdi, Old Airport Road, Beijing 100015
Opening hours: Tuesday to Sunday, 11am – 6pm
Telephone: +86 (0)10 6432 3202

ShanghART Beijing is pleased to present a solo show by Yang Zhenzhong – Don’t Move. Timed to coincide with Caochangdi Photospring 2011 in Beijing, this exhibition shall present both photography and video works by Yang that explore ideas relating to identity and narrative.

The main ground floor gallery shall be taken over by an immersive video installation, Don’t Move, which features 12 video projections of faces uttering the phrase “don’t move”, which also means “freeze!” in Chinese. The illuminated faces surround the audience in the dark exhibition hall as they each move, shake, and shudder in different orientations. The random timing of the uttered word from all four directions creates a soft disorientation that is intensified by the movement of the faces affected by the camera. The person uttering the word doesn’t move, only the camera moves. This work was originally created for the public environment at Shanghai Fuxin Park in 2001. 

In the smaller ground floor gallery, Yang shall show Spring Story, an important work from 2003 that has never been shown in Beijing. Originally created for the Siemens Arts Programme, Yang worked with over 1,500 employees of Siemens Shanghai Mobile Communications Ltd. to create a recitation of a seminal speech by Deng Xiaoping known as the “Southern Campaign Speech”. This speech, made in 1992 during Deng Xiaoping’s tour of southern China to gauge the success of his Opening Up Reforms, was used to garner support for the economic policies that now define China’s 30 year economic growth. Yang asked each employee to recite just a few words from the speech without giving any context, and edited the result to create the entire speech. Each employee, embodying their role in a production line, recreated the speech part by part – the speech that paved the way for this factory, and their jobs, to exist.

Yang Zhenzhong has created a new work for the upstairs gallery: Wrong Way Round is a series of double portraits of people from all walks of life wearing their clothes or uniforms back to front. Each double portrait consists of a photograph of the person facing the camera and with their back to the camera. Either their face shows or their formal/social identity shows, but the two cannot coincide.

This group of three works each deal with identity and narrative as two separate aspects of reality that we often take for granted as being naturally contiguous. Yang has dissected the different aspects of this reality and rearranged them in a way that gives poetic insight to its mechanisms, and shows that what can be constructed can be taken apart.

Yang Zhenzhong (1968) was born in Hangzhou, now he lives and works in Shanghai. He began working with photography, installation, video and multi-media in 1994, and also initiated some exhibitions. Yang Zhenzhong's work has been showed at major biennales and triennials including Venice Biennale (2007, 2003), Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (2006), Fukuoka Asian Art Triennial (2005), Guangzhou Triennial (2005, 2002), Shanghai Biennale (2004, 2002), etc. His recent solo exhibitions include: Overpass (Canvas International Art, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 2008); Yang Zhenzhong (Nikolaj Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center, Denmark, 2008); Foreplay (ShanghART H-Space, Shanghai, 2006); Yang Zhenzhong (Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, U.K., 2006), etc.

Colin Chinnery
March, 2011