LIUSA WANG
77 rue des Archives
75003 Paris
On The Faience Of Your Eyes
Musquiqui Chihying
Open from 19. May 2022
Tue - Sun 11:00-18:00
Closed on Mon
Continuing Chihying's long-term critical research into museums and collections, "On the Faience of Your Eyes" attempts to explore how the views of the others are shaped by displays and the creation of systemized knowledge, by reviewing two historical exhibitions of Asian artefacts exhibited in Western museums. The first exhibition, titled "Chinese Art" (Chinesische Kunst) was held in 1929 at the Berlin Academy of Arts (Akademie der Künste), located on the Pariser Platz in the capital of Germany. More than 1,000 exhibits were on display over a period of more than two months. This was the first time Chinese artefacts were displayed in Europe on such a grand scale. The second exhibition began at the Château de Fontainebleau in France in the mid-19th century, combining art from China, Siam, Japan, Korea and Tibet, which is still going on today. Whether the exhibits were acquired through war looting, gifts or acquisitions, after the Western collectors combine their imaginations and appropriation directly into these objects, the two exhibitions clearly reflect the image of the others that the viewers are pursuing. A famous poem from Victor Hugo, "Vase de Chine", is used as inspiration for the exhibition's title "On The Faience Of Your Eyes". Through this French writer's poetic personification of exotic artefacts from the East, the installations in this exhibition examine the orientalist gaze generated by colonialism and violence...
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