Dong Jun's solo exhibition of contemporary video art "Two Flowers" opened at the end of 2020

Xi'an News Network News At the Xi'an Art Museum, the contemporary video art solo exhibition "Two Flowers" by video artist Dong Jun with the theme of feminism opened at the end of 2020. The one-month exhibition period attracted a large number of visitors to leave impressions and images on major social media, and the number of readers exceeded one million.

With its overall conception, space design, uniqueness and originality of the work itself, "Two Flowers" has become a hot topic in the national industry. Artist Dong Jun boldly reversed a female role this time, and together with 34 female artists from all over the country, he jointly completed a two-channel video work "Acquaintances Know Pengshanke, But The Heart of the Two Flowers", jointly speaking for the hidden spiritual world of women, countless female audiences came to the exhibition, and it was also the process of punching cards and constantly taking photos.

The text of the two-channel video of "Acquaintances Know Pengshanke, But Two Flowers in the Heart" comes from a short story by Dong Jun, who divided the novel into 34 fragments and invited 34 female friends from all over the country to take 34 videos with their own interpretations of the novel. After Dong Jun's editing and combing, it finally formed a dual-channel video presented in the exhibition hall, like a double-screen literary and art film. In the exhibition hall, the film jumps through two curtains, weakening the narrative and narrating Si Soso, and the artist uses metaphors, symbols and dreams to tell the feelings, impressions and mental states of women in different time and space dimensions, facing the modern women's marriage and childbirth in a complex and diverse role, trying to break through the cage and fall into the trap of the cage.

Echoing in the exhibition hall is the video installation "No One Can See the Tears in My Swim Goggles" opposite the two-channel video. The pool passage built by artist Dong Jun just happened to be a seat for the audience to watch the movie. At the other end of the pool are three large screens that connect seamlessly. Overlooking the blue "pool", the water splashes in the pool, and the audience watches the woman swimming from one end to the other, the cycle is endless, endless, and infinitely lonely. Tears flooded the pool, no one could see her tears, and the emotions were properly hidden and released endlessly. From the inside out, the mechanism and ingenuity can be seen everywhere, showing the exquisite and exquisite composition of the artist.

The video narrative and exhibition method of the "Two Flowers" exhibition itself are niche, but because they have another way in the popular female topic, they have brought a new feeling to the video art world and ordinary audiences, so they quickly triggered topic discussions on the Internet.

Hu Wugong, one of the representative figures of Chinese documentary photography and honorary chairman of the Shaanxi Photographers Association, said that for a long time, China's photography exhibitions and art exhibitions have basically looked at middle-aged and elderly people, but when "Two Flowers" opened, most of them were energetic young people. The exhibition not only expresses art, but also contains many thought-provoking philosophical ideas and social ethics behind it, and Dong Jun uses his own unique language to discover and reveal the complex and contradictory mentality of human nature, giving people great inspiration.

Hai Jie, a famous curator from Beijing, pointed out that Dong Jun's sensibility in the current academic exhibition allows the audience to feel another feeling through the arrangement of the relationship between the exhibits and the space, and "Two Flowers" is like a special cinema, allowing the audience to immerse themselves in a number of video works.

According to reports, the artist Dong Jun has been in the art for 20 years, the photographic work "Model" and the documentary "Dashui" have won a number of domestic and foreign awards, and the works have been exhibited in the United States, France, Germany, South Korea and other countries, and have also been exhibited in many first-tier cities in China and Taiwan, Macao and other places, and have accumulated corresponding reputations in the industry and the public in the past 20 years. In terms of image technology, artistic concepts, the expression of time dimensions, as well as the construction of exhibition space and the selection of props, he tries to break through, experiment and challenge, and his inner creativity allows the audience to see a new face of video art, a more diversified and advanced possibility. Xi'an Newspaper All-Media Reporter Zhi Yin