Taking The Bunker’s historical context as a starting point, Wang Gongxin is using sound, light, and movement to create the environment akin to a photography darkroom, in order to explore the complex and sometimes problematic symbolic connections that bring together the past and present.
In this new exhibition project, Under the Shadow – About BIAO is a continuation of the artist’s experiences during the 1990s while living and working abroad: in July 1995, Wang created a project titled BIAO at Halle 10, Ludwigsburg. Both Halle 10 and The Bunker have wartime historical roots from the same era but with different cultural contexts and historical memories. Wang is using The Bunker’s unique historical site to reconstruct a project that originated in a different context, in order to highlight the overlapping situations that connect history and contemporary reality. The installation for Under the Shadow, moreover, is an attempt by the artist to bring the audience into his experience of contemporary life, and to reflect on the relationship between the personal and larger narratives beyond our control.
以掩体空间的历史语境及空间形态为出发，王功新运用既关联又对比呈现的方式，采用声光电等多种材料和物质媒介，营造出一种工作状态中的暗房式展览场景，来探讨一种复杂的历史与当下于“镜像”关系的视听体验。
此次展出的项目“潜影—与BIAO有关”，回应到1990年代艺术家的海外艺术生涯：1995年7月王功新在德国路德维斯堡10号艺术中心应邀举办了个人项目《Biao》。10号艺术中心与掩体空间都源自战争遗迹，有着同时段、不同时空的历史记忆。王功新以此对应的时空关系为出发，在掩体空间中重新构建了仅于德国展出的项目《Biao》，利用了这一项目所针对的历史与场所、历史与记忆、历史与现实之间的多重关系，包括艺术家个人的生存体验与当代现实之间的投射与相互转换，试图把观者带入一种不可名状的、互为镜像的空间体验之中，从而引发与观者不同的交流与反思。
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