Rockbund Art Museum 上海外滩美术馆

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Time Traveler hopes to evoke visually spatial memories of the era of the Shanghai Museum, presenting the overlap of two times and spaces — a natural history and culture muse of the 1930s and a contemporary art museum of 2012, reuniting the two spaces that stand at either end of this temporal axis. All the artists participating in this exhibition have in the past or are still currently working with classical material, dead forms and historical incidents as their mode of expression in their art. These works of art seem to return to the narrative approach to history of the era of the Shanghai Museum, which legitimated power to narrate history a traditional museum gains by virtue of possessing treasures. But the contemporary artists no longer obsess with the one and only historical discourse. They help us to reconstruct our cultural identity and mode of existence by employing artificial history and geography.

《时光旅行者》期望在视觉上唤回对上海博物院时代的空间记忆，呈现两个时间和空间的重迭，1930年代的一座自然历史与文明博物馆和2012年的当代艺术馆，将位于时间轴两端的同一个空间重合。展览中，被邀请的艺术家都曾经或仍然在运用古典的材料、死亡的形态、历史的事件作为作品的表现形式，在视觉上作品似乎重建了上海博物院时期对历史的叙述方式，即传统博物馆因为拥有宝物而合法获得叙述历史的力量，然而当代艺术家用他们虚构的历史和地理帮助我们重新建构我们的文化身份和存在方式。