満天星　You May be My Lucky Star

 

“満天星: You May be My Lucky Star” is an exhibition curated by Zhang Yangyu.

Exhibition period: 2019.10.05-18

Open hours: 10:00­­–18:00

Venue: Studio HB,  Tokyo, Taito-ku, lkenohata 2-6-12, 201

5 minutes’ walk from Exit 2 of Nezu Station, Chiyoda Line

 

Admission Free

 

Opening Reception: 2019.10.05, 16:00-18:00 @Studio HB. All are welcome.

 

Curator: Zhang Yangyu

Artists:

-Mu Xi (China)

-Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay (Canada) & Bastien Pourtout (France)

-Zhang Yangyu (China)

 

Supervisor: Prof. Yuko Hasegawa

Exhibition cooperator: Graduate School of Global Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts

Special thanks to: Prof. Stephen Sarrazin / Studio HB

 

Statement/Conceptual Text

 

満天星: You May be My Lucky Star

I look for signs, but of what?*1

The relation of the subject to the body, to phantasm, to the passage of time, to the ‘mysteries’ of life and death.*2

I Ching, horoscope, palmistry, omens, birthstones, flowers… I turn to someone for something different from pure science, belief, aesthetics, parts of each; meanwhile, open myself to the possibility of being questioned, in the hope of receiving revelation before getting lost, managing to speak up in tongues before becoming silent, revealing one more secret about myself before losing interest.

満天星(Man Tian Xing), literally meaning ‘stars all over the sky’, is the Chinese name for the flower baby’s breath, which symbolizes newborn, bonds, and the ability to stay focused on love.

Rest is on the horizon. As a newborn, bond again with the universe and with myself, like a star in the Milky Way, like a lover who has retrieved their focus on love.

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*1 Roland Barthes, A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments (New York: Hill and Wang, 2010), 214.

*2 Felix Guattari, The Three Ecologies (New Jersey: the Athlone Press, 2000), 35.

 

 

[Thumbnail: Mu Xi, Grass & Tree Festival No.1, 2010. ©️Mu Xi, courtesy of the artist.]

 

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