只要她出现我就会爱她
Whenever she appears I will love her

艺术家/ARTIST
黄子玥 Huang Ziyue
孟倬司琪 Meng Zhuosiqi

艺术总监 Director：杨述 Yang Shu
策展人 Curator：倪昆 Ni Kun
展务 Art Handler：王健 Wang Jian
主办 Organizer：Organhaus

开幕时间/Opening Date
2023/06.3（周六 Sat.） 18:00-21:30

展期/Duration
2023/06/03-07/03

地址：重庆市南岸区龙门浩老街50号吾善艺术
Address: Wushan Art, No.50 Longmenhao Old Street, Nanan District, Chongqing

展览介绍Exhibition Description

这是一个名为“只要她出现，我就会爱她”的双人项目。此处的“她”指母亲，也指爱人，或是所有无法割舍的牵绊。此次将展出两位艺术家近两年创作的新作品。

黄子玥的作品由从小到大的女性的俄狄浦斯情结延伸而出。对依恋及安全感的寻觅的痕迹遍布其的大部分在作品中。新作品源自对一本创刊五十年的杂志，时代变迁对文化的影响。孟倬司琪的作品则呈现其漫长地对自我性别的探索，意识到也可以成为一位母亲后，才消解掉对母职的恨意的过程。在驻地期间的完成的作品则更多在讨论家庭劳作，或是与重庆的地形特征及历史事件相关。两人同为高度自我体验型的创作者，作品都能够形成微妙的呼应。我们希望呈现这种呼应，从真实经验出发探讨当下。（孟倬司琪/文）

This is a collaborative effort titled "Whenever she appears I will love her. In this context, the word'she' refers to a mother, a lover, or all unbreakable connections. The exhibition will feature new works created within the last two years by both artists.The work of Huang Ziyue extends the Oedipus complex of women from childhood to maturity. The majority of her works contain traces of the quest for attachment and security. The new work is based on the cultural impact of changing circumstances on a fifty-year-old magazine.Before her hatred of motherhood dissipates, Meng's work presents a lengthy investigation of her own gender and the realisation that she can become a mother. The majority of the works completed during the residency deal with domestic labour, Chongqing's topography, or Chinese history.Both are extremely self-experienced creators capable of producing subtle echoes of their own work. We aim to convey this echo by examining the present through the lens of actual experience.（Meng Zhuosiqi/Text）

展览现场/读本
Exhibition site / Readings

想策划这个展览的起源是，很多朋友看了我们的作品，都会产生一个疑问。“你们妈妈的去世了吗？”事实是，我的妈妈健在，她的妈妈健在。我说咱们小组名叫丧母小组吧，最后觉得实在太不吉利了。孟倬司琪说：“我妈妈去世了我要进精神病医院的”。目前我们的组合名称叫“菩萨保佑妈妈身体健康”。

2021年，孟倬司琪在我的出租屋大喊“个人的就是社会的！”之前，我关注的议题都在向外探索，羞于谈起与自我有关。她一定上影响了我的创作，让我愿意完成尘封在备忘录里的那些轻松的小方案。《宝珍》这本诗集为了鼓励我做出来，孟倬司琪直接手工缝制了一本。

为了诚实的应付在空间负责人面前说下的承诺——我们会多做一些在地性的创作。我们都有进行一些尝试。孟倬司琪做作品十分感官与直觉，今天吃饭说了方案，明天买材料，后天做完了。喜欢做又臭又长大体量作品的我瞳孔地震，并表示向她学习。遂，失败。思索再三，我则是选用了川渝的演员，来增加作品的在地性。

孟倬司琪的语言体系，直接，明了，黄子玥的语音体系通常包裹了几层又几层。一个言谈直爽的东北金牛座，一个话不直说的江南金牛座。我们在这次展览中尝试互相对话，随后又各自倔强的依旧顺着自己创作体系出发。

This exhibition was inspired by the fact that many of our peers are left with a question after viewing our work. "Did your mum's pass away?" The truth is that both my mother and her mother are alive and well. I suggested that we call our group the bereaved mother's group, but ultimately decided it was too unlucky. said, "I'll be in a mental hospital if my mum dies." Our group's moniker is now "Bodhisattva Blesses Mother with Health."

In my rented room in 2021, Mengzhuo yelled, "What's personal is social!" Previously, I had focused on outwardly exploratory issues and was too bashful to discuss myself. She must have influenced my creative output and inspired me to complete the minor, humorous projects that had been accumulating in my memoirs. Mengzhuo directly hand-stitched the book of poems "Baozhen" to encourage me to do so.

To live up to the vow made in front of the space's leader - that we would do more creative work about Chongqing Everyone has experimented a little. Mengzhuo's work is extremely sensual and intuitive. He discusses the plan over dinner one evening, purchases the materials the next, and completes the task the following evening. I'll learn from her. But, defeat. I ultimately decided on actors from Sichuan and Chongqing to enhance the work's Chongqing.

The art system of Meng Zhuo Siqi is direct and unambiguous, whereas the art system of Huang Ziyue is typically layered upon layer. A straightforward-speaking northeastern Taurus and a non-direct-speaking Jiangnan Taurus. We try to talk to each other in this exhibition, and then we each stubbornly continue to follow our own creative system.

黄子玥/文 HuangZiyue /Text

I hope you have nine lives, too

Meng Zhuosiqi
Installation / video
2021

This work is based on the many suicides I have witnessed and heard about from my mother. The title comes from a poem called 'Lady Lazarus'.I have never spoken directly to my mother about her suicides, but I have learned about her trials and struggles from many sources. My mother and I had a very difficult relationship as mother and daughter, and I understood her process as a gradual realisation that I was a woman too.

Yangtze measures my height

Meng Zhuosiqi
2023
performance

Many of the buildings along the Yangtze River in Chongqing have scales to prevent flooding and to commemorate the great flood of 2020.Such scales are much like the ones installed at home to measure the height of children, and the Yangtze has always been called the Mother River. So I made a sign with my own height on it and walked into the Yangtze to find a spot that exactly matched my height.

Touching the Mother

Meng Zhuosiqi
2023
Installation

The visual presentation is already very straightforward, and by the time of the exhibition, the old scrub board was almost worn down.