Past Residents
Past Resident2020: Galerie Templon
Omar Ba
Omar Ba’s paintings represent political and social motifs that are open to multiple interpretations. His artistic vocabulary raises historical and timeless questions while formulating a wholly contemporary artistic message. Ba’s iconography features personal metaphors, ancestral references and hybrid figures. In his work, he seeks to express his subconscious and symbolic interpretation of the real.
Omar Ba has exhibited work at The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto; Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris; and Louvre Abu Dhabi, among others.
Omar Ba, Afrique ou La Grande Traversée vers un Etat Nation, 2019, oil on canvas, 833/4 × 1201/8 in. (212.72 × 305.12 cm).
Omar Ba, Eclosion de nos croyances, 2019, oil on canvas, 59 × 783/4 in. (149.86 × 200.02 cm).
Omar Ba, Same Dream, 2018, acrylic, gouache, oil, and pencil on canvas, 783/4 × 543/4 in. (200.02 × 139.06 cm).
Omar Ba, Ceremonial Costume, 2019, acrylic, gouache, oil, and pencil on canvas, 797/8 × 52 in. (202.88 × 132.08 cm).
Omar Ba, War Junkie 1, 2018, oil, pencil, acrylic, and gouache on craft-polyester paper, 995/8 × 631/4 in. (253.05 × 160.65 cm).
Jianru Wu
Jianru Wu is a curator and writer based in Guangzhou. Her practice look at the consequences of rapidly diversifying structures of relationship and power in East Asia within a digital era. Her curatorial works include “Re/sentiment” (2016) at A+ Contemporary, Shanghai and “Southern Climate” (2017) at N3 Gallery, Beijing. “Forget Sorrow Grass: An Archaeology of Feminine Time” (co-curated with Sirui Zhang, 2019) at Guangdong Times Museum. She is the Director of Media Lab at Guangdong Times Museum since 2019.
Jianru Wu has presented exhibitions at OCAT, Xi’an; N3 Gallery, Beijing; Guangdong Times Museum, Guangzhou, among others.
Events & Exhibitions
One (Illegitimate) Child
March 17–October 9, 2020
Yunyu “Ayo” Shih & Zijie, Hygiene And Cleaning from The Manual for Domestic Robot Keana-35® (Hong Kong), 2019, exhibition: "Forget Sorrow Grass: An Archaeology of Feminine Time".
Huang Jinyuan, THE OFFICE project, 2015, site-specific project.
Huang Weikai and Wang Buke, Re/sentiment, 2016, group exhibition at A+ contemporary.
Fong Fo, Call Me A Shi, 2015, solo exhibition.
Jianru Wu, southern climate, 2017, group exhibition at N3 Gallery Beijing.
Residents from China
Alchemyverse
Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, Alice and Lawrence Weiner, New York City Council District 34, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, Hartfield Foundation, Danna and Ed Ruscha, The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation
2023
Ariane Loze
Through a methodical deconstruction of cinematic norms, Ariane Loze strips her video-performances down to their most basic, structural inner workings. Her post-minimalist aesthetic brings together conceptual expression and home-made execution underpinned by an immediately recognizable narrative made up of static shots of a straightforward action or event. Since 2008, Loze produces her videos autonomously: she take on the roles of director, screenwriter, editor, dresser, and sound and lighting technician, as well as plays all characters.
Ariane Loze has exhibited work at Riga Biennial of Contemporary Art, Riga; S.M.A.K., Ghent; and KANAL Centre Pompidou, Brussels, among others.
Ariane Loze, Utopia, 2018, HD video projection with sound, 10:27 min.
Ariane Loze, Archipelago of Me, 2018, HD video projection with sound, 32:54 min.
Ariane Loze, Minimal Art, 2019, HD video projection with sound, 8:25 min.
Ariane Loze, Highlands, 2019, HD video projection with sound, 30:18 min.
Ariane Loze, Kolumba, 2020, HD video projection with sound, 13:36 min.
