The material creation and extension of the space is the theoretical premise of Yu Ji’s solo exhibition “The Double Screen” opening on June 2nd, 2012 in Art-Ba-Ba Mobile Space. Based on this topic, in a 20 m² room, Yu Ji duplicates a wall with a window, separating the space in two by executing a compression on one side, using reproduction methods to make a transitional space. Naturally, this material creation creates a spatial illusion, which seems real at first, but which reveals a virtual perspective when looking through the window; and when suddenly becoming aware that everything is fictitious, one will actually be standing in the real space. When facing this concept of a space within a space, one could quote Wu Hung when he talks about “The Double Screen”. Even if Wu Hung’s “Double Screen” originally relates to a notion in visual logic from the history of knowledge, we can still understand it as an initial contemporary extension.

Within a month, Yu Ji’s project will be separated in four parts where duplicated walls and space will be moved or destroyed, the illusion will then diminish and disappear. However, Yu Ji’s work won’t merely be a division, modification and removal of layers, in fact, as the space materializes, the three parallel walls will be composed of a “double-screen”. Within these changes, particularly the spatial transition “The Double Screen” will be composed, the transfer of the artist will be refined, and will question our cognitive experience in everyday life. This project attempts to explore a certain possible escape in its elaboration and expansion of experience. In this sense, the three parallel walls and windows won’t be a common observation passage, on the contrary they will be a visual - even an impression - shelter, that becomes a new double screen between this double screen.

Lu Mingjun, Curator of this exhibition

About the Exhibition

Date: 3 Jun - 1 Jul 2012

Location: Room 5215, 2/F, Bldg 5, 18 Wuwei Road, 200331 Shanghai

Courtesy artist and Art-Ba-Ba Mobile Space.