我的美好生活My good life
艺术家：何绮
策展人：上官凯莉
开幕时间：2025年3月8日 周六 下午15:00
展期：2025年3月8日—31日（预约参观）预约电话：17711037480
展览地址：成都市青羊区锦里西路86号3楼
主办机构：AVG空间
支持机构：伦敦梵高故居
Artist: He Qi
Curated by Kylie Shangguan
Opening: 3:00 PM, Mar. 8, 2025
Duration: Mar. 8 - 31, 2025 by appointment
Venue: Floor 3, No. 86 Jinli West Road, Qingyang District, Chengdu
Organizer: Aspiring Van Gogh
Support: Van Gogh House London
前 言Preface
何为美好生活？在我采访了一些人后，大都是自由。物质上的自由、时间上的自由，亦或是自足的精神状态。德国哲学家马丁·海德格尔认为现代人陷入了技术理性的统治，遗忘了存在的本质。他主张“诗意地栖息”——以审美的、非功利的态度来对待世界，在平凡的生活中寻找意义和价值。
人与人之间的关系正被物与物之间的关系所掩盖，社会关系被物化，人成为商品的奴隶。如何证明你在意我，是通过你舍得为我花多少钱来证明；如何体现我在工作中的价值，也是我为公司带来了多少利益。"美好生活"早已被异化为一场永无止境的消费竞赛。通过物质与金钱来补偿情感缺失是简单直接的，也是有效的。那么一个物品使用到什么程度需要更新换代？，物品是否仍然具备温度？它们是我们情感的延续，还是异化现实的投影？当社交媒体、数字交流构建起新的关系网络，这种仅停留于碎片化的神经麻痹，如何使我们的真实情感进行流动？
展览中的作品从日常旧物、生活场景、个人记忆等角度切入，展现艺术家何绮理想中的美好生活，也是他试图应对社会加速的一些方式。通过拼贴、绘画、摄影等方式，探讨有岁月的物品所承载的记忆，对当下生活的编织。“蓝晒”是一种古典摄影技法，利用铁盐的光敏特性，通过紫外线照射图像显影。这种独特的普鲁士蓝调是本次展览中何绮使用最多的颜色，永远宁静。作品《31°54'24.198"N,104°39'38.239"E》是对亲情的回应，《徜徉在忧郁的明天.wav》是对自我现在的回应，《无题(牙齿、隧道和拼图)》是对自我过去的回应，《对理想的日常形式》是对自我未来的回应。当然，成长中也会有数次像《毛毛》这样的新生。
这场展览不是对过去的简单怀旧，而是试图在当下寻找一种更富有人文关怀的生活方式。它提醒我们，美好生活不在于拥有多少，而在于我们如何与物相处、与人相连，如何找到世界中自己的位置。
时间的味道、风的姿态、莫名其妙的眼泪……这些都是自由的，人的本性从未改变。
上官凯莉｜文
What is the good life? After I interviewed a few people, they were mostly free. Material freedom, time freedom, or a self-contained state of mind. German philosopher Martin Heidegger argued that modern man has fallen into the rule of technical reason and forgotten the nature of existence. He advocated "poetic perching" - an aesthetic, non-utilitarian approach to the world, searching for meaning and value in ordinary life.
The relationship between people is being overshadowed by the relationship between things, social relations are being objectified, and people become slaves to commodities. How to prove that you care about me is by how much money you are willing to spend for me. How I value my work is also how much benefit I bring to the company." The "good life" has long been alienated into a never-ending consumption race. Compensating for emotional deficits through material and monetary means is simple, direct and effective. So to what extent does an item need to be replaced?
Does the item still have the temperature? Are they a continuation of our emotions, or a projection of our alienated reality? When social media and digital communication create new networks of relationships, how does this nerve paralysis, which only stays in fragmentation, allow our true emotions to flow?
The works in the exhibition are cut from the perspectives of daily old objects, life scenes, personal memories, etc., showing the artist He Qi's ideal life, and some of the ways he tries to cope with the acceleration of society. Through collage, painting, photography and other methods, we explore the memories carried by objects of age and the weaving of current life. "Bluing" is a classical photographic technique that uses the photosensitive properties of iron salts to develop images by irradiating them with ultraviolet light. This unique Prussian blues is the color He Qi uses most in this exhibition, and it is always peaceful. Works 《31°54'24.198"N,104°39'38.239"E》is a response to the family,《on high in blue tomorrows.wav》 is a response to the self's present, 《Untitled (Teeth, Tunnels, and Puzzles)》 is a response to the self's past, and《 to the Ideal Everyday Form》 is a response to the self's future. Of course, there will be several times in the growth of 《Maomao》 such a new life.
This exhibition is not a simple nostalgia for the past, but an attempt to find a more humane way of life in the present. It reminds us that the good life is not about how much we have, but about how we relate to things, how we connect to people, how we find our place in the world.
The taste of time, the posture of the wind, inexplicable tears... These are free, and human nature never changes.Kylie Shangguan
毛毛(Maomao) 白蜡木，旧纺织品，羊毛，锁芯，钥匙，橡胶，书签, 55×23×12cm, 2025
on high in blue tomorrows.wav；浮法玻璃，旧纺织品，吉他拨片，气泵，海绵，沙，丙烯颜料，台灯，Overall dimensions variable，2025. Dedicated to my band“If We Could Stay”
关于理想的日常形式(On the Mundane Forms of Ideals)；白蜡木，旧纺织品，纽扣，羊毛，丙烯颜料，铝合金，陶瓷，干花，木质框架，Overall dimensions variable, 67 x55 cm, 2025
窥伺(Peering)；旧纺织品，檀木，木质框架，旧明信片，地毯，台灯，莲蓬，Overall dimensions variable，2025