Xu Qiu's “Advent” at Wuhan Biennale

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2024.11.16

EXHIBITION TITLE
URBAN FLUIDITY: WUHAN BIENNALE 2024

CHIEF CURATOR
Fan Di'an

CHIEF CO-CURATOR
Zhang Zikang

EXHIBITION DIRECTOR
Chen Yongjin

DURATION
2024.10.05 - 2025.05.31

VENUE
Wuhan Art Museum, Wuhan

TRIUMPH GALLERY is pleased to announced artist Xu Qu was invited to participate in group exhibition URBAN FLUIDITY: WUHAN BIENNALE 2024 at Wuhan Art Museum.

URBAN FLUIDITY: WUHAN BIENNALE 2024 was officially launched on October 5 at Wuhan Art Museum (Hankou and Qintai), with more than 140 artists from 20 countries presenting more than 200 works of art, including paintings, sculptures, mixed-use installations, videos and digital media. The exhibition will last for about 8 months, until the end of the exhibition period. The exhibition will last for about 8 months until May 31, 2025.

Advent, Xu Qu's large-scale installation, will create a scene reminiscent of an unknown extra-terrestrial descending onto a massive spacecraft. The mediums of this work are recycled components from eight discarded ATMs. After disassembling and flattening the machines, they will be arranged on a platform, with random shutdown screens displayed on their screens. Walking on the platform, visitors can envision the atmosphere in a vertical view. Amidst the digital transformation of currency transactions and the financial industry, the physical operating processes in bank transactions have been gradually changed, and application scenarios of money exchanges are simplified and upgraded. The ending of these discarded ATMs evokes emotions of abandonment or separation: these once perfect industrial design products foreshadow the advent of the last phase of human creation.

Artists

Xu Qu

Xu Qu was born in 1978 in Jiangsu, China. Xu Qu graduated with a MFA in Diplom of Fine Art and Film at Braunschweig University of Art, Germany in 2007. The artist is currently lives and works in Beijing.

Xu Qu conveys his attitude towards society and his understanding of the world through artistic practice. He focuses on exploring the interconnections among social systems in different dimensions and fields. Starting from a profound insight into social reality, Xu Qu uncovers the subtle aspects within his field of vision, revealing the macro through a grasp of the micro. He navigates through various value systems and aesthetic experiences, extending his reflections on the interplay of social systems. Guided by his pursuit of concise and clear presentation, Xu Qu employs diverse media to address different topics, resulting in a multidimensional artistic practice that encompasses painting, performance, video, installation, and sculpture.

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