When Huang Yali was 30 years old, Huang Yali's "Borrowing Light Project No. 30 and Li Li Installation Art Exhibition" completed more than 30 days of exhibition in Beijing's 798 Art District this weekend, He Jiong, Li Yuchun, Zhang Liangying, Zhou Bichang and others came to the exhibition to stand for her, Huang Yali said that this installation is her gift to her 30 years old, and it is also the place where her next life stage begins.
Courtesy of the artist
From the age of 16 to participate in "Super Girl" into the audience's field of vision to now, and He Jiong feels the same in this season of "Longing for Life", Huang Yali's youth in the past fourteen years has been completed in the public vision of growth and transformation, facing the lens of the Beijing News, Huang Yali shared the behind-the-scenes fun of reuniting with several "super girls" in 2005, and also felt the same, "You look back at the youth of that year, we are all together. Don't have insults, don't question, don't have those slanders, they are all this age, why bother?
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a. Exhibition revealed
There are five spaces for a mobile container stage
On the Bauhaus Square in Beijing's 798 Art District, there has been a huge container stage for more than a month, and if you are lucky, you will also see Huang Yali and her friends standing on the container, telling everyone about the origin and structure of this stage. If you have a little more perseverance and come to report every day, you will also meet Li Ronghao, Zheng Jun, Man Jiang, He Jiong, Li Yuchun, Zhang Liangying, Zhou Bichang and other star lineups like an award ceremony, which is the exhibition site of Huang Yali's "Thirty and Li Installation Art Exhibition of the Borrowing Light Project".
Panoramic view of the installation. The picture is from the Borrowing Light Project Weibo
The most conspicuous container stage is divided into five spaces, and the creation of the entire installation "borrows" the stories of many people:
(The following is Huang Yali's dictation)
1.Initial intention "kitchen"
I love cooking, so there is a "kitchen" in this space. The door handle is a pair of forks and spoons that have been magnified 100 times, which is the story that Teacher He (He Jiong) lent me when I was doing the borrowing plan: when he was in college, his mother told him that no matter how busy he was, he must eat well. I designed the fork spoon as a door handle, which also means that Teacher He is my "door opener".
"Kitchen" interior. The picture is from Chen Xibei's Weibo
2. Doll's room
The dolls inside I borrowed through the "Borrow Light Project", each doll represents a story, and there is a slide in this space, which is not a decoration, it also carries a very important function, which will be revealed later.
The picture is from the Borrowing Light Project Weibo
3. Tribute to van Gogh's stage
I pieced together my favorite bricks into a van Gogh bedroom, which was actually a main stage, which could be stretched out and turned into a stage under the wall on one side of the container through an electric downscreen door, on which there would be a chair where you could sit and play guitar.
4. Split room
This space was when I went to the Youth Hostel, and everyone painted me a picture of a smiling face, and I stayed and changed it into a more industrial room. It contains a lot of tools that I did by hand, when I did the modifications, it was a very split room, and there was a rising electric device that could act like an elevator, which could rise to the roof of the car and reach the next space.
Image from Li Zan's Weibo
5. Roof
The roof of the car is the fifth space, and I have imagined myself standing on it singing countless times, and standing on it can see everyone's smiling faces. To get down from the roof of the car, you can use the slide in the doll's room mentioned earlier.
Poured into the transformation for six years, borrowed the stories of many people
In 2005, Huang Yali participated in the "Super Girl" competition and won the sixth place, after her debut, she has released six solo albums, and also participated in idol dramas and movies, and served as a program host, but the effect was not ideal. After that, Huang Yali began to do handicrafts, paintings, traveling, using her hands to express her feelings about travel with her hands and paintings, "I used to feel as if I was very bitter, doing these things is 'saving the country in curves'." ”
Six years ago, in the eighth year of Huang Yali's debut, she thought she could finally hold a concert and was ready for all concerts, but in the end she was withdrawn. This incident made Huang Yali realize that since others can't give a stage for singing, then make a stage for herself: "I can't change others, I can only change myself." Just when everyone thought it was just a joke, Huang Yali used all her savings to start making a "stage": "I was thinking, if I wanted to sing, what kind of object would I want to stand on?" So this container stage was formed, and I wanted to walk around, to sing freely, even if it was wandering, so I added wheels. ”
The container is 9 meters long, and Huang Yali does not want to be like many foreign container stages, as soon as all the spaces are opened, they can see at a glance, so there are the above five partitions. In 2014, Huang Yali began the "Borrowing Light Project", "Mainly when I was renovating the stage, I began to run out of money, so I began to crowdfund everyone's stories and objects, that is, the 'Borrowing Light Project'. Every time someone gives me a very important story, or an object with a story, I put them on this 'stage'. I was so excited that it was like releasing a new song or a record. ”
In the process of transforming this stage, Huang Yali gradually let go, giving up the idea of initially feeling that she was "saving the country on the curve": "I am contrasting: is it the same feeling of doing this thing and being happy to be a singer and releasing records?" It's the same, then there's no need to tangle. Why should I force myself to make a trade-off, it is what my life looks like - life goes to any place, brings back memories, brings back light, brings back memories and stories, this is what I have always been willing to do in my life, so I realized that I am not walking a curve, this is my career. ”
b. 30 years old decoded
It's fun to say you're 30
"Before the age of 18, I will be very willful and make some mistakes, because I am underage, I can joke that I can be irresponsible, anyway, it is a rogue, but the day I was 18 years old, I officially told myself that I couldn't do this." 」 Huang Yali, now 30 years old, stands on the square of the 798 Art District, stands on her "stage", and says to her 30-year-old self: "At the age of 30, I made my stage, and after the age of 30, I want to stand on it and sing." I'm trying to be able to stand on it and sing every day. ”
Huang Yali is very fortunate that she did everything she could to make this stage, "If I had done this thing from scratch when I was 30 (years old), I might not have the courage, fortunately I did it at the age of 25." 」 My 30s will also have an impulse, but I will rationally arrange things, and this is the 30-year-old me. ”
When someone asked Huang Yali: "Female artists are afraid to announce their age, you are so brazenly shouting that you are 30 years old, aren't you worried?" Huang Yali said happily: "I debuted at the age of 16, and after fourteen years I was 30 years old, and after I announced it, many people said: Why are you so young?" This makes me think that announcing the age is a good thing! ”
When asked about the next plan, Huang Yali firmly said that it is to strive to open the "stage" out as soon as possible, "Then I want to make money, I have money to do things, I can drive out, being an artist is not my intention." ”
At the same time, they all understood me
In the first issue of this season of "Longing for Life", Huang Yali's song "Butterfly Spring Side" sang He Jiong to tears, and it was also on the hot search. In the show, several Supergirls were in the same frame again and also set off a wave of memory killing. "Actually, we've met on the plane, it's all the same flight."
Group photo of "Longing for Life".
In Huang Yali's view, everyone feels exactly the same as they did fourteen years ago, although everyone has matured and their lives have changed a lot. "A lot of people sit in front of the TV and think that the scene is like the summer of 2005, as soon as they hear our theme song, see the posters and wash and blow shapes, they will feel that they have traveled back in time and space to 2005. A lot of people say how you used to be, you will question some things, please, the youngest is me, also 30 years old, why bother to think about this. Everyone happily accompanies us, occasionally crosses to that year, find your own youth, don't have insults, questions, slander, all this age, why bother? ”
The scene of the 2005 SuperGirl six-in-five competition.
In 2019, Yi Hui, Zhou Bichang, Ye Yiqian, Ji Dandi (formerly known as Ji Minjia), Li Yuchun, Zhang Liangying and others gathered at the Huang Yali exhibition.
Beijing News: You directly sang He Jiong and cried, can you tell the story of the two of you?
Huang Yali: Teacher He was the first to support me in this exhibition, and his fame and the help of the program to this exhibition are very important. When I sang "Butterfly Spring", I knew that Teacher He would be very excited, I said you don't mess with me, and my tear point was particularly low. In fact, every time I sing Teacher He is very concerned, before singing "shall we talk" in another program, Teacher He saw it and immediately transferred it to me, and he poured all his strength to help me.
I used to feel very bitter, but then Teacher He shared his things with me, he has been in this industry for so many years, seeing artists come and go, he encouraged me to say that this thing is not bitter, especially good.
Beijing News: Li Yuchun also came to give you a platform, you invited her to come over?
Huang Yali: Yes, when I went to record "The Life I Yearn for", I still hoped that everything would arrive, although there was still no Qi, but I thought that sooner or later it would be Qi, and the older I got, the more emotional it became. At that time, I told Chun Chun that everyone had come and looked for an opportunity for us to get together. In fact, we usually contact her privately, but because everyone is busy, we will not bother her so often. But really as soon as something happens, everyone will come, including the pen and pen, Sissi. We all debuted at the same time, we all know my mood, about the concert, about the yearning for the stage, I will understand it in one sentence, and they will all come.
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