Differential Valley

  • Chen Junyao & Wang Buyun Junyao Chen is an independent curator based on a background in digital media. He graduated...

    Chen Junyao & Wang Buyun

     

    Junyao Chen is an independent curator based on a background in digital media. He graduated from the Department of Digital Media, Beijing Normal University, Beijing in 2018, and received a master's degree in Curating Contemporary Art from the Royal College of Art, London in 2020. His current curatorial practice and research focus on spatial politics in the context of urbanisation, the publicity of digital media, and the digital human landscape in the public environment.

     

  • Wang Buyun was born in 2001 in Jinan, Shandong. A 2019 undergraduate student majoring in art history at Hubei Academy...

    Wang Buyun was born in 2001 in Jinan, Shandong. A 2019 undergraduate student majoring in art history at Hubei Academy of Fine Arts, his research direction focuses on the individual life and the reconstruction of landscape in the marginal areas under the modernization process and follows his family to have practice in modern agriculture and field life.

  • Differential Valley

     

    The Differential Valley is a metaphor for the social landscape created by the erosion of heterogeneity and the life paradigm as a adjustor. The exhibition embodies the philosophy and inter-subjective cognition in the historical context, responds to the current social situation, and explores the flow between urban and rural areas. The flood of globalization and modernization, the undercurrent of urban floodplain and the gradual integration of rural valley slope delineate the pan-utopia beyond the urban-rural dualism.

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