Genevieve CHUA 蔡艾芳：Moths

---

Genevieve CHUA
Moths

15 March – 2 May 2015

Gallery EXIT is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Singaporean artist Genevieve Chua. Moths is the third part of the Unnatural History Drawings series, whose approach is derived from the taxonomy of museum specimen classification systems. Presented as a straddling of paintings and objects, Moths draws upon the physiognomy and evolution of moths caused by the evolution of flowers it pollinates.

CHUA’s practice is focused on natural history, linguistics and the formal properties and responses toward painting. The artist mediates the configurations of exhibitions through these processes. In Moths and future works to come, CHUA looks into painting and its materials to formulate configurations for the way it is made and shown.

Making tangential relations to the artist’s previous explorations in recent works, the shaped paintings are derivations of curves which flips and folds in a vibratory fashion, making allusions to the insect’s mating cycle. The work’s formal qualities hark back from the artist’s interests making spatial possibilities with an all-over screen print on paintings, as seen in the earlier Ultrasound series.
​

蔡艾芳
Moths

2015年3月15日至5月2日

安全口畫廊呈獻與新加坡藝術家蔡艾芳合作的個展《Moths》。《Moths》是《Unnatural History Drawings》系列的第三部分，創作方向乃源自博物館的物種分類系統。《Moths》是關於在花朵傳授花粉的進化過程中，飛蛾的生理和進化上的改變，以凌駕於此背景上的方式在繪畫和物件中呈現。

蔡氏的創作主要是圍繞自然史、語言學以及繪畫裡不同形式的屬性和反應。藝術家透過這些過程去調整展覽的結構，在《Moths》和日後的作品中，蔡氏會繼續從繪畫和材料出發，鋪陳出它們製作和展示的結構。

在藝術家過往的探索中演化並分岔出來的近作裡，這不同形狀的油畫都是線條的種種演繹，以動態的形式翻轉和摺合來投射出昆蟲的交配週期。藝術家對於在繪畫中使用整張絲網印刷，從而製造出空間的可能性 ── 這一點在是次作品的形式質素中亦有跡可尋。