NAFI 2024｜Booth A-11

2024.11.21-11.24

HU Wei Solo Project: Affairs

    VIP DAYS
    2024/11/21 13:00-18:00
    2024/11/22 11:00-18:00

    PUBLIC DAYS
    2024/11/23 11:00-18:00
    2024/11/24 11:00-17:00

    ADD: Nanjing International Exhibition Center, Hall A

     

    We will present artist Hu Wei’s solo project – “Affairs” in NAFI 2024.

    AFFAIRS is a persistent exploration of paradoxes in the “absent” and “muted” materials and narratives. The artist has conducted a laborious, intensive investigation as well as fabrication of the factual materials from a puzzling espionage crime (or a cross-border romantic relationship), which took place yet intentionally kept secret in the Cold War era, thus inviting the viewers to witness how an intimate relationship devolves into separation, and assume the roles of both a judge and participant in the convoluted plot. Within its multifaceted reconstruction based on media materials, forensic documents, movies and theater plays, this work transforms investigation of a public event in history into an “obsessed detective curiosity” and narcissistic identification with the “criminal”. This is a crime without a perpetrator, in which the laws, orders, transgressions, scandals and lies mentioned in the event have turned into a reference to our present conflicts.

    Installation Views

    Artworks

    Affairs

    HU Wei
    16 min. 39 sec.
    Edition of 3
    Two-channel video Installation, colour, mixed stereo
    2022

    The New Wounded

    HU Wei
    Variable Dimension
    Edition of 3
    Sound installation (silent), oscilloscope, sound module, micro memory card, 3.5 to BNC cable, iron plate, steel frame, violet lamp, lamp holder
    2022

    A Spy Story

    HU Wei
    49 x 110 x 120 cm
    Edition of 3
    Installation | 80s M size beige trench coat, computerised embroidery, password box, multi-layer solid wood panel, water-based lacquer
    2022

    Crime of Passion

    HU Wei
    31 x 22 cm x 2 pieces
    Edition of 3
    Collectible photo paper, art microblading, marker ink, computer-generated images, text
    2022

    If We Never Met Again 1964-1985

    HU Wei
    28 x 37 cm
    1985 newspaper archives
    2022

    About Artist

    HU Wei

    Hu Wei, born in 1989 in Dalian, graduated from the China Central Academy of Fine Arts, Oil Painting Department in 2012, and obtained his MA in Fine Art at Dutch Art Institute in 2016, currently lives and works in Beijing. Working in a variety of media including film making, installation, printed images, performance and drawing, Hu Wei explores the precarious relationship between labour, affect, and value judgments in different political and economic environments, technological conditions, and events.