2024 3.8 Aura
3.8 Aura
-Asian Female Artists Annual Exhibition 2024
Curator: Zelene Jiang Schlosberg
Academic Support Juan Xu
Artists: Yi Mei, Min Huang, Li Xinmo, Yin Hang, Yu He, Hana Jiang, Xing Ling, Zhimin Liu, Zelene Jiang Schlosberg, Ming Ma, Nanxi Jin, Guojuan Sun, Dan Xu, Bing Xu, Guo Zhen, Meng Elizabeth Tang, Lin Wei, Wen Xie, Rong Zhang, Xiao Li Zhang, Ping Zhou, Mengge Zhao, Qiaoyun Zhou, Jiny Lan, Yaliangfeifei, Yingfu Gao, Chaorong Zeng, Jiaxi Han
Organizer: Avant-garde Art Projects
Online -Show
The Transparent "Aura" — Global Women's Exhibition
Juan Xu
Every year on March 8th marks an ordinary yet extraordinary day: women from different countries around the world express themselves in various unique ways, allowing this particular day to witness their existence and focus on women's issues. Despite the enormous challenges brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic globally, it has, to a certain extent, tightly connected the world. The internet technologies that emerged during the pandemic also presented new possibilities for artists and art collaborations across different time zones globally.
"The Transparent Aura" is a grand exhibition presented collaboratively by over 30 female Chinese artists from around the world. Using simple yet rich language, the exhibition reflects women's pursuit of self-awareness and sensitivity to the injustice faced by women in contemporary society.
This exhibition is a global collaboration where female artists from various corners of the world collectively voice their perspectives in diverse forms. The artworks take on various forms, including painting, photography, sculpture, and installations, showcasing women's multi-dimensional exploration of self-awareness and providing the audience with a thoughtful space for reflection.
The works not only present a rich palette of colors but also deeply reflect on traditional thoughts. Female artists, with a simple approach, reveal the constraints of traditional concepts on women's intellectual consciousness. Drawing inspiration from everyday life, they skill fully depict the inner world of women in their works, allowing us to not only see but also perceive the oppression and challenges faced by women within traditional frameworks.
This is a story about contemporary women, an exploration of the artistic path towards freedom and equality, seeking resonance with women and those moments of self-loss while simultaneously cleverly challenging societal perceptions. "The Transparent Aura" delves into the journey of art that explores freedom and equality, searching for the resonance of women and those moments of self-loss.
In 2012, when the first Bald Girls exhibition took place at Beijing's art area 798, feminist art in China tended to be dismissed as self-pitying. However, what the three artists Li Xinmo, Xiao Lu, and Lan Jiny together with the curator Juan Xu wanted to achieve was to make society aware of misogyny, sexual violence, and the lack of human rights.
It has been ten years and one #MeToo movement later and the situation has not changed much. In China, during the Chinese New Year, one particular case has caused a stir that set women's rights back centuries. In a viral video, a mother in Xuzhou can be seen, chained and abused like an animal in an inhumane environment. One can see how the woman is fearful, has lost all hope, and can no longer speak. She freezes in thin clothes with no shoes on her feet in the cold winter months. Although she has given birth to eight children, she is disregarded by society and abused by men as a sex object. The case of the "woman in chains" goes directly back to the culture of patriarchal dominance and male-led discourse. Since the One-Child Policy, female fetuses have been aborted before birth due to the cult of masculinity, which has led to gender imbalance. Today, there are thus more men than women in China, which in turn has led to the emergence of trafficking in women. The "Woman in Chains" is not an isolated case and proves once again that the struggle for women's rights is not self-pity, but still meets the fighting spirit of the Bald Girls...
After two years of the pandemic, women have suffered setbacks in societies worldwide, they are again increasingly seen as housewives and mothers, and are mainly responsible for care work. In China, the new Three-Child Policy is similarly inhumane to the One-Child Policy and violates women's rights in new ways. Abortions are now banned and menstruation is monitored. The Chinese government is doing everything it can to push women (back) into the family. In South Korea, Yoon Seok-yeol, a prominent anti-women conservative, was elected president by a narrow majority. Shortly after his election, he announced the dissolution of the Commission for Equal Rights in the Korea
-Asian Female Artists Annual Exhibition 2024
Curator: Zelene Jiang Schlosberg
Academic Support Juan Xu
Artists: Yi Mei, Min Huang, Li Xinmo, Yin Hang, Yu He, Hana Jiang, Xing Ling, Zhimin Liu, Zelene Jiang Schlosberg, Ming Ma, Nanxi Jin, Guojuan Sun, Dan Xu, Bing Xu, Guo Zhen, Meng Elizabeth Tang, Lin Wei, Wen Xie, Rong Zhang, Xiao Li Zhang, Ping Zhou, Mengge Zhao, Qiaoyun Zhou, Jiny Lan, Yaliangfeifei, Yingfu Gao, Chaorong Zeng, Jiaxi Han
Organizer: Avant-garde Art Projects
Online -Show
The Transparent "Aura" — Global Women's Exhibition
Juan Xu
Every year on March 8th marks an ordinary yet extraordinary day: women from different countries around the world express themselves in various unique ways, allowing this particular day to witness their existence and focus on women's issues. Despite the enormous challenges brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic globally, it has, to a certain extent, tightly connected the world. The internet technologies that emerged during the pandemic also presented new possibilities for artists and art collaborations across different time zones globally.
"The Transparent Aura" is a grand exhibition presented collaboratively by over 30 female Chinese artists from around the world. Using simple yet rich language, the exhibition reflects women's pursuit of self-awareness and sensitivity to the injustice faced by women in contemporary society.
This exhibition is a global collaboration where female artists from various corners of the world collectively voice their perspectives in diverse forms. The artworks take on various forms, including painting, photography, sculpture, and installations, showcasing women's multi-dimensional exploration of self-awareness and providing the audience with a thoughtful space for reflection.
The works not only present a rich palette of colors but also deeply reflect on traditional thoughts. Female artists, with a simple approach, reveal the constraints of traditional concepts on women's intellectual consciousness. Drawing inspiration from everyday life, they skill fully depict the inner world of women in their works, allowing us to not only see but also perceive the oppression and challenges faced by women within traditional frameworks.
This is a story about contemporary women, an exploration of the artistic path towards freedom and equality, seeking resonance with women and those moments of self-loss while simultaneously cleverly challenging societal perceptions. "The Transparent Aura" delves into the journey of art that explores freedom and equality, searching for the resonance of women and those moments of self-loss.
In 2012, when the first Bald Girls exhibition took place at Beijing's art area 798, feminist art in China tended to be dismissed as self-pitying. However, what the three artists Li Xinmo, Xiao Lu, and Lan Jiny together with the curator Juan Xu wanted to achieve was to make society aware of misogyny, sexual violence, and the lack of human rights.
It has been ten years and one #MeToo movement later and the situation has not changed much. In China, during the Chinese New Year, one particular case has caused a stir that set women's rights back centuries. In a viral video, a mother in Xuzhou can be seen, chained and abused like an animal in an inhumane environment. One can see how the woman is fearful, has lost all hope, and can no longer speak. She freezes in thin clothes with no shoes on her feet in the cold winter months. Although she has given birth to eight children, she is disregarded by society and abused by men as a sex object. The case of the "woman in chains" goes directly back to the culture of patriarchal dominance and male-led discourse. Since the One-Child Policy, female fetuses have been aborted before birth due to the cult of masculinity, which has led to gender imbalance. Today, there are thus more men than women in China, which in turn has led to the emergence of trafficking in women. The "Woman in Chains" is not an isolated case and proves once again that the struggle for women's rights is not self-pity, but still meets the fighting spirit of the Bald Girls...
After two years of the pandemic, women have suffered setbacks in societies worldwide, they are again increasingly seen as housewives and mothers, and are mainly responsible for care work. In China, the new Three-Child Policy is similarly inhumane to the One-Child Policy and violates women's rights in new ways. Abortions are now banned and menstruation is monitored. The Chinese government is doing everything it can to push women (back) into the family. In South Korea, Yoon Seok-yeol, a prominent anti-women conservative, was elected president by a narrow majority. Shortly after his election, he announced the dissolution of the Commission for Equal Rights in the Korea
