Rockbund Art Museum 上海外滩美术馆

"Ifs, Ands, or Buts" is the first exhibition presented by Rockbund Art Museum (RAM) in 2016 and the first museum solo exhibition in mainland China for Singaporean artist Heman Chong. The exhibition investigates spaces between text and images, producing new ways of relating the two through 7 new works commissioned specifically by Rockbund Art Museum.
Heman Chong often draws references from a multitude of things that we do not usually classify within the same group. He is able to place modernist literature such as Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett, alongside something as banal as Mr. Bean and The Road Runner, and even the gossip newspaper Apple Daily as if they belong together. "Ifs, Ands, or Buts" can be interpreted as a fiction which may never be put into words. A fiction that is absurd and bizarre, one that is equipped with a sardonic, black humor, where different situations find themselves misplaced in the realm between reality and fantasy.

“闲言碎语”是上海外滩美术馆2016年度的首档新展，也是新加坡艺术家张奕满在中国的首场美术馆级别的个人展览。展览通过7件全新制作的艺术作品，对文本和图像之间的空间进行审查，并以一种全新的方式将两者联系起来。
张奕满的创作常蕴含丰富的典故，很多我们看来风马牛不相及的事物在艺术家的手中都能与其作品很好地融合在一起。他能将《等待戈多》这样的现代主义文学作品，和《憨豆先生》《跑步鸡》这样老套的电视节目，甚至八卦小报《苹果周刊》放在一起，仿佛它们本该如此。展览“闲言碎语”本身也可以被想象成一部也许永远不会写就的虚构小说的若干章节，它荒诞而离奇，带有讽刺性和黑色幽默的气质，在这里你将与各种“错位场景”不期而遇，探索现实与虚构的中间地带。