Posture Language

Participating Artists: UNMASK, HAN YAJUAN, JIA GANG, GUO YAN, YANG TAO, SHEN NA, WU XUELIAN, ZHANG FENGTIAN
Exhibition Venue: New Age Gallery(Beijing)
Exhibition Period: 2009.6.6~2009.6.30

"Body Language" emphasizes the use of bodily postures as the primary form of artistic expression. Artists adhere to specific themes or emotional thoughts, employing artistic body postures to convey sentiments and externalize inner thoughts and emotions into formal gestures. The participating artists in this exhibition, born in the 1970s and 1980s, focus on everyday life environments and details. Each artist selects symbolic human body language to express their understanding and feelings about the current era and reality, reflecting their contemplation on politics, economy, religion, culture, and more, showcasing their awareness of the body and physicality.

Using human body postures as a vehicle for artistic expression, they convey and express the unspoken thoughts and the most authentic feelings of the human society's innermost core. This unique form of artistic expression is rich in rhythm, fluidity, abstraction, virtuality, and symbolism, presenting an "imagistic" language and aesthetic.

During the creative process, artists draw inspiration from stimuli and experiences in real life, using artistic body language to seek meaning and sentiment, creating a dance of "virtual" imagery. While this dance of virtual imagery may overlook the external truthfulness of forms in real life, it passionately pursues the internal truth of "emotion" and "meaning." It is through this external, imagistic language that individuals can freely communicate with all things existing in objective reality, thereby generating immensely powerful artistic expression.

Perhaps, akin to the serene and flowing melodies of music, the graceful postures of human body language most authentically convey human life, emotions, and desires.