白盒子艺术馆荣幸宣布将于2025年8月8日至9月14日期间，推出艺术家廖生祥在白盒子艺术馆的首次个展「另类生长：廖生祥个展」，本次展览由黄笃担任策展人，展出艺术家雕塑及影像作品。

另类生长：廖生祥个展
Liao Shengxiang: Alternative Growth

文/黄 笃
By Huang Du

“另类生长：廖生祥个展”集中涵盖了四个层面：一是HOMO（身体）；二是动物（鲨鱼）；三是植物（树木）；四是织物（蓑衣）。它们聚焦于探索欲望与约束、干预与抵抗、日常与异常、自然与人工之间的临界点，进而思考视觉之外的感知力。

The exhibition Liao Shengxiang: Alternative Growth converges four dimensions: HOMO (body), animal (shark), plant (tree) and textile (palm-bark rain cape). It explores the tipping points between desire and restraint, intervention and resistance, the mundane and the aberrant, nature and artifice, while challenging perception beyond the visual domain.

在这样的坐标中，廖生祥选择的路径不是基于艺术史逻辑，而是受启于人类学、地理学和民俗学，又结合后现代叙述和南方区域文化特征，重新建构了由身体、动物和植物组成的“奇异”场景。在这一跨学科场景中，看似作品之间彼此呈松散状态，但实际上它们相互连接，即以无形的身体为中心扩展至动物和植物，隐含着地理意向，营造出紧密相连的新叙事。

Within this framework, Liao’s approach diverges from art-historical logic. Inspired by anthropology, geography, and folklore, he integrates postmodern narratives with distinct southern Chinese cultural traits to reconstruct a “heterotopic” scene composed of body, animal, and plant. In this disciplinary context, seemingly disparate works interconnect: an invisible corporeal axis extends to fauna and flora, imbued with geographic implications that weave a cohesive new narrative.

廖生祥的超常叙事无疑提供了一种新的认知方式。他通过事物的二元对立或冲突拓展了观者的感知厚度和思维深度，与此同时日常经验和审美经验也浸透于自我价值观的认同感和归属感。在充满不确定性的现实中，廖生祥的艺术超越了现行流行范式，以形而上的角度解读了生命的价值和意义，提升了观者的洞察力、想象力和判断力。

Liao Shengxiang’s extraordinary narrative offers an alternative epistemology. Through binary oppositions or conflicts, he amplifies viewers’ perceptual depth and cognitive acuity. Simultaneously, quotidian and aesthetic experiences are also steeped in a sense of identity and belonging rooted in personal values. Amid pervasive uncertainty, Liao’s art transcends prevailing paradigms to interpret life’s value, enhancing observers’ insight, imagination, and critical judgment.

关于艺术家
About the Artist

廖生祥
Liao Shengxiang

b.1985 中国福建, 工作生活在北京

部分展览:

2024 春美术馆 海上新族 远离地面 群展

2022 《在理想和栖息地之间》城市艺术邀请展。江苏

2017 群展中国北京红门画廊

2013 《发光体》中国北京红门画廊

2008 群展中国北京 POP艺术中心

b.1985 in Fujian, China. Lives and works in Beijing

Selected exhibitions:

Here are the English translations for the two art exhibition titles:

2024 Shanghai Spring Art Museum Group Exhibition: New Generation on the Coast / Away from the Ground

2022 Between Ideal and Dwelling* Urban Art Invitational Exhibition, Jiangsu

2017 On The Move, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing, China

2013 Red Hot, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing, China

2008 Show POP art centre, Beijing, China

关于策展人
About the Curator

黄 笃
Huang Du

策展人和批评家。1965年生于陕西。1988年毕业于中央美术学院美术史系。1991-1992年在意大利博洛尼亚大学学习艺术史。2004年获中央美术学院美术学博士学位。2007年完成清华大学博士后项目。他撰写了许多当代艺术的评论文章，多发表于中国、日本、韩国、荷兰、澳大利亚等国的杂志 。他曾受邀参加许多国际当代艺术研讨会，并任多个国际艺术奖项评委：如CCAA奖、瑞信－今日艺术奖、台新艺术奖、日本尼桑艺术大奖、艺术8奖和意大利佛罗伦萨双年展等。

Curator and Critic. Born in Shaanxi Province in 1965. Graduated from the Department of Art History at the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) in 1988. Studied art history at the University of Bologna, Italy from 1991 to 1992. Received his Ph.D. in Fine Arts from CAFA in 2004. Completed a postdoctoral program at Tsinghua University in 2007. He has published extensively on contemporary art, with articles featured in magazines across China, Japan, South Korea, the Netherlands, Australia, and other countries. He has been invited to participate in numerous international contemporary art symposiums and has served on the juries of several prestigious international art awards, including the CCAA Award, the Credit Suisse Today Art Award, the Taishin Arts Award, the Nissan Art Award (Japan), the Art8 Prize, and the Florence Biennale (Italy).