Resonance

18 Gallery / Belgian Pavilion, World Expo Shanghai, Shanghai (CN), 19 - 24 September 2010

Participating artists: CREW, Hans Op De Beeck, Anouk De Clercq, Hu Jieming, Martines Go Home, Kris Verdonck, Aajiao Xu, Yin Yi

Co-curated with Christophe De Jaeger, Art Yan and Magda Danysz

Resonance transformed the exhibition into a communicative space, a "force field" in which installations by Chinese and Belgian artists create an enchanting atmosphere. A series of corridors and curtains between the works sculpt the space. 

In the video Conductor, by Anouk de Clercq, a lightning conductor with a small light is shown in the middle of a darkening sky. The work Cloud.Data by Aaajiao (Xu Wenkai) further emphasizes our focus on the sky. Kris Verdonck's/A Two Dogs Company's Box confronts us with the world's strongest light in a performative, theatrical setting. Hans Op de Beeck's Loss is a film of a continuously changing late nineteenth-century landscape of parks and city architecture. Images of dark, mysterious parks and buildings transform into specters that foreshadow events to come, resulting in an apocalyptic, ruined, muddy landscape inspired by the Belgian coastal region after World War I. Hi! A World Is Being Built by Hu Jieming presents a massive, constructed lunar landscape that can be viewed through a telescope. Sound artists Martians Go Home and Yin Yi collaborated to create audiovisual interventions in the exhibition space.