{"id":2089,"date":"2024-03-27T22:12:43","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T14:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/?p=2089"},"modified":"2024-03-27T22:12:43","modified_gmt":"2024-03-27T14:12:43","slug":"shanghais-rockbund-art-museum-contends-with-its-colonial-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/artist\/shanghais-rockbund-art-museum-contends-with-its-colonial-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Shanghai\u2019s Rockbund Art Museum Contends with Its Colonial History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Rockbund Art Museum<\/a>\u00a0(RAM), a contemporary art museum located in a restored plaster-brick Art Deco building overlooking\u00a0Shanghai\u2019s iconic Bund, has a history that dates back far longer than its opening in 2010.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">Its building, erected in 1932 in the former European concession, was originally home to the North China branch of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Royal Asiatic Society (RAS),<\/a>\u00a0an organization of British and American expatriate scholars, explorers, and scientists. The RAS funded expeditions to uncover archaeological treasures, conduct ethnographic surveys, and catalog indigenous flora and fauna. Today, it would be termed an explicitly Orientalist endeavor that acted as a source of colonial knowledge production and extraction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">The Rockbund has never hid that history, but it has also not explicitly contended with it either\u2014not, at least, until this spring, in a trio of exhibitions conceptualized by artistic director X Zhu-Nowell,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">a former assistant curator<\/a>\u00a0at the Guggenheim Museum in New York.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">The exhibitions occupy the entire building and reimagine its historical functions. Museum spaces on the fourth and fifth floors are turned into a midcareer survey, \u201cMount Analogue,\u201d by the Shanghainese artist Hu Yun; the library on the third floor is turned into an exhibition on the history of the RAS, \u201cShanghai Palimpsest,\u201d told from archival research and oral histories.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">Finally, the auditorium on the second floor\u2014once the central place where RAS members presented their research\u2014has been recast as\u00a0<em>AUUUUDITORIUM<\/em>, staged with a fantastical opera set by Singaporean artist Ming Wong, who has\u00a0long created disruptive and funny video works\u00a0where he inserts himself into classic Western films. Here,\u00a0<em>AUUUUDITORIUM<\/em>\u00a0flips the old RAS stage on its head, with a year-round program of performances, lectures, workshops, parties, and karaoke that blur the line between installation, theater, nightclub, and study space.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">Collectively known as \u201cChina Journal,\u201d and part of the multiyear research initiative \u201cComplex Geographies,\u201d the exhibitions form \u201ca collective resistance against hegemonic thinking,\u201d as Zhu-Nowell has put it in texts related to the shows.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">The question of knowledge production forms the basis for Hu\u2019s show. While the exhibition is billed as a survey, Hu\u2019s work is so intertwined with explorations of colonialism, history, and the Royal Asiatic Society that one might be forgiven for thinking it is all one project commissioned by the RAM, since Hu had already been researching the former well before this outing was conceived. (In fact, only about half the works were newly produced for the museum.) During a tour for\u00a0<em>ARTnews<\/em>\u00a0Friday, Zhu-Nowell acknowledged the rather unique link between Hu and the RAM.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">\u201cThere are very few artists who, for the past 10-plus years of their practice, have been researching the Royal Asiatic Society. It\u2019s a very small niche,\u201d Zhu-Nowell said. \u201cAnd when I wanted to use this building as the focus of a long-term research project, he was a very obvious choice, especially for this site and this museum. I like to work with artists who can generate new history and layers of meaning of the architectural space too. RAM is not a traditional white cube. He might be the only artist in the world who can do that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">While the exhibition is meant to have no set route, the first work one is likely to see upon entering rescues those banished to the margins of history. In\u00a0<em>The Unknown Clouds<\/em>\u00a0(2021\u201324), Hu has embedded a broken porcelain teacup in a white wall and filled it with 376 grains of rice. Each grain is carved with the name of a Chinese laborer found on a list of workers drafted by Australian officials in the 19th century. Hu found the list while researching Chinese-dug mine pits in the country; it bears only nicknames, the only thing left of their identities or stories. A floor below, there is a companion sound piece, also at the entrance, called\u00a0<em>Wind Calls\u00a0<\/em>(2024). In it, a light flickers in synchronization as a recording of a 90-year-old man from Taishan, where most of the mine workers hailed from, reads the names. In a stairwell linking the two floors, hang 18 watercolor blocks that constitute\u00a0<em>Unregistered<\/em>\u00a0(2014), the colors of which have been extracted from plants growing around the former mining sites.<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content-image \/\/  \" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<figure class=\"o-figure   size-full alignnone lrv-u-max-width-100p\">\n<div class=\"c-lazy-image  \">\n<div class=\"lrv-a-crop-16x9\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/04.jpg?w=400\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 87.5rem) 1000px, (min-width: 78.75rem) 681px, (min-width: 48rem) 450px, (max-width: 48rem) 250px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/04.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/04.jpg?resize=400,267 400w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" data-lazy-loaded=\"1\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"c-figcaption  lrv-u-font-size-12 lrv-u-flex lrv-u-flex-direction-column lrv-u-padding-tb-025\"><span class=\"lrv-u-font-size-14@desktop\">Installation view of\u00a0<em>Debris<\/em>\u00a0(2024), Hu Yun, \u201cMount Analogue,\u201d\u00a0Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai.<\/span><cite class=\"lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase lrv-u-color-grey\">COURTESY OF ROCKBUND ART MUSEUM; PHOTO: YAN TAO.<\/cite><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">The works set the tone for the exhibition, which is named after an unfinished adventure novel by French writer Ren\u00e9 Daumal. In the novel, a group of adventurers undertake an expedition to a mystical mountain that is both invisible and unreachable to the outside world, and serves as a conduit between Heaven and Earth. The novel, which is largely about spiritual self-discovery, helps guide Hu\u2019s conception of history as being both cosmic\u2014Zhu-Nowell described it as \u201cBig Bang\u2013centered.\u201d But Hu also views history as being fragmentary and deeply personal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">\u201cWe are asking you to stitch together your own perspective of history because perspective in history is very important. There is no historical truth, and it\u2019s always through a particular lens,\u201d Zhu-Nowell said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">The personal nature of Hu\u2019s work comes through with repeated references to his grandfather in\u00a0<em>Everything Is Possible in the Dark\u00a0<\/em>(2016),\u00a0<em>Escape (Revisit Memory 1914-2013),\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>Lift with Care\u00a0<\/em>(2013), among others. Hu\u2019s grandfather left his hometown in 1941 at the age of 14 to pursue his revolutionary fervor with the Communist Party. He never returned. In each work, Hu chases his grandfather\u2019s ghost, attempting to reconstruct history in the particular.\u00a0<em>Lift with Care<\/em>\u00a0features his grandfather\u2019s open suitcase with various items inside, while\u00a0<em>Escape<\/em>\u00a0plays slides on a projector depicting Hu\u2019s travels back to his grandfather\u2019s hometown, reconstructing the key moments of his life based on stories his grandfather told. But perhaps most poignant is\u00a0<em>Everything Is Possible in the Dark<\/em>, 10 pieces of gelatin silver photo paper. This presentation is the third version of that piece.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">\u201cEvery time I re-exhibit the same work, it will never be the same because the context changes, the space changes,\u201d Hu told\u00a0<em>ARTnews<\/em>. \u201cI always think I should develop it more. I always revise work to turn it into another piece.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">The first iteration of the work featured photos from his grandfather\u2019s personal collection, hung with their backsides facing forward so only the small bits of information scrawled on the back\u2014a date, a place, or sometimes a name\u2014can be seen. Then, because the negatives were lost, Hu rephotographed the pieces. In the darkroom, he decided not to place the prints in fixer solution, thus allowing the images to dissolve into a permanent haze that grows darker with each viewing. History, even when preserved, fades into oblivion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">This shearing off of historical context is mimicked in\u00a0<em>Debris\u00a0<\/em>(2024), which is hung opposite the photographs. In it, he pairs various pieces of space garbage fallen in Northwest China with cut-outs of newspaper clippings and terrarium that older Chinese generations once carried to keep beautifully chirping insects as pets. All of it has been painted completely black, rendering them simple, unknowable forms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">The works centered on his grandfather are linked, like everything else, with the Royal Asiatic Society, its exhibitions, and its construction of China\u2019s natural history. In\u00a0<em>Lift with Care<\/em>\u2019s suitcase lies a machine-embroidered survey map by British naturalist Arthur de Carlo Sowerby, the president of the RAS. Alongside it is a rubbing by Hu of the Xi\u2019an stele, which documented early Christianity in China, but was later buried due to religious suppression. Over a thousand years later, Sowerby led an expedition to Xi\u2019an in 1911 to rescue foreign missionaries during the Xinhai Revolution. Meanwhile, Hu\u2019s grandfather\u2019s journey, documented in\u00a0<em>Escape<\/em>, largely follows the trail once taken by Sowerby and American art collector and philanthropist Roger Sterling Clark, among others. That expedition appears in\u00a0<em>Journey without a Destination<\/em>\u00a0(2017), which restages a photo of Hazrat Ali, the expedition\u2019s Indian surveyor, riding atop a horse before the trip started. Ali was later killed by locals unnerved by his yoga practice, ending the expedition. In the restaged photos, Hu sits on the saddle. The symbol reappears in an untitled<em>\u00a0<\/em>2016 work for which a saddle is hung in the center of a room, atop a stack of yoga mats.<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content-image \/\/  \" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<figure class=\"o-figure   size-full is-resized alignnone lrv-u-max-width-100p\">\n<div class=\"c-lazy-image  \">\n<div class=\"lrv-a-crop-16x9\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/02.jpg?w=400\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 87.5rem) 1000px, (min-width: 78.75rem) 681px, (min-width: 48rem) 450px, (max-width: 48rem) 250px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/02.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/02.jpg?resize=400,267 400w\" alt=\"Sails of black fabric rise from the former vitrines that once held taxidermy.\" width=\"840\" height=\"0\" data-lazy-loaded=\"1\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"c-figcaption  lrv-u-font-size-12 lrv-u-flex lrv-u-flex-direction-column lrv-u-padding-tb-025\"><span class=\"lrv-u-font-size-14@desktop\">Installation view of\u00a0<em>The Hollow-Men<\/em>\u00a0(2024), Hu Yun, \u201cMount Analogue,\u201d Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai.<\/span><cite class=\"lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase lrv-u-color-grey\">COURTESY OF ROCKBUND ART MUSEUM; PHOTO: YAN TAO.<\/cite><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">The exhibition is inextricably intertwined with the building itself. Occupying much of the fourth floor is\u00a0<em>The Hollow-Men<\/em>\u00a0(2024). In the work, sails of black elastic mesh extend toward the ceiling like tree canopies and\u2014like pieces in\u00a0<em>Debris\u2014<\/em>echo objects of the past while erasing their original meaning. The sails mimic and explode the former specimen cabinets that once lined the hall with taxidermy of the animals \u201cdiscovered\u201d by RAS members. In one of these poetic black fabrics lies\u00a0<em>Escape Ladder<\/em>\u00a0(2024), another commissioned piece in which Hu strings together a ladder of palm leaves shaped like Buddhist pattra-leaf scriptures. (Palm leaves are a recurring motif in Hu\u2019s work, both for their natural beauty and their history as an \u201cexotic\u201d object of colonial fascination.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">On the top floor, above the exhibition\u2014which will soon be a reference library\u2014is\u00a0<em>There Is No Exhibition\u00a0<\/em>(2024), in which Hu has reconstructed a floor plan of the tiny one-room apartments that librarians once inhabited after the RAS\u2019s closure in 1952, when the building operated as a warehouse of the Shanghai Library. The plan was constructed with input from Mr. Wu, one of the former librarians, whom Hu met during his research. Hu placed the plan alongside other personal objects of the Wu family, as well a drawing made by Hu\u2019s son.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">During press previews, the Wu family was able to see the work and relive their childhoods. The floor below was once the repository of banned books taken by the government from the \u201960s to the \u201990s. The books have since been returned, Zhu-Nowell said with a laugh, but not always to the right person. The records were not kept well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">\u201cHistory in this country is constantly flipping the pages. You just don\u2019t know how to really negotiate and deal with it,\u201d said Zhu-Nowell. \u201cThat historical perspective that Hu and other Chinese artists have are really dealing with that change.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content-image \/\/  \" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<figure class=\"o-figure   size-full is-resized alignnone lrv-u-max-width-100p\">\n<div class=\"c-lazy-image  \">\n<div class=\"lrv-a-crop-16x9\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/01_ab10ce.jpg?w=400\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 87.5rem) 1000px, (min-width: 78.75rem) 681px, (min-width: 48rem) 450px, (max-width: 48rem) 250px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/01_ab10ce.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/01_ab10ce.jpg?resize=400,267 400w\" alt=\"A circular wall hangs with paintings and images and text.\" width=\"840\" height=\"0\" data-lazy-loaded=\"1\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"c-figcaption  lrv-u-font-size-12 lrv-u-flex lrv-u-flex-direction-column lrv-u-padding-tb-025\"><span class=\"lrv-u-font-size-14@desktop\">Installation view,<em>\u00a0Shanghai Palimpsest: Restaging the RAS Library<\/em>, Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai.<\/span><cite class=\"lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase lrv-u-color-grey\">COURTESY OF ROCKBUND ART MUSEUM; PHOTO: YAN TAO.<\/cite><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">The layers of the building peel back furthest in \u201cShanghai Palimpsest,\u201d in which artist Zhang Ruyi transforms the RAS\u2019s former library into a new one. The exhibition tells the story of the RAS through its members. Among them are Florence Ayscough, a Shanghai-born librarian who was deeply engaged with the city\u2019s literature, philosophy, and art scenes in the early 20th century, and Wu Lien-teh, the first Asian member of RAS, its biggest donor, the first Chinese person to study medicine at University of Cambridge, and a heralded physician known for pioneering modern pandemic mitigation with his invention of the N95 mask.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">Most intriguing, however, is the section on the Tang family, who served as RAS\u2019s taxidermists until its closure\u2014living on the first floor\u2014and then continuing on for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AtelierAuctionsg\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the nearby Zuija Biological Museum<\/a>\u00a0for decades later. Their story is told through a documentary,\u00a0<em>History and Memory<\/em>, by artist Lu Jie, and a collection of their taxidermy birds. The Tangs\u2019 inclusion was a result of history again pressing in on the building\u2019s present: As Zhu-Nowell tells it, shortly after they started at RAM, they noticed an old man filming in the museum.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">\u201cAt first, I was very mad. I was like, why are they filming in a museum without permission? Then we talked a little bit and I realized he was born in the museum,\u201d Zhu Nowell said. \u201cDifferent eras, different people occupy the space.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">Pages flip, history rolls on, and, before long, we\u2019re either carved grains of sand or, in the best scenario, stories on a museum wall.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source\uff1ahttps:\/\/www.artnews.com\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Rockbund Art Museum\u00a0(RAM), a contemporary art museum located in a restored plaster-brick Art Deco building overlooking\u00a0Shanghai\u2019s iconic Bund, has a history that dates back far longer than its opening in 2010. Its building, erected in 1932 in the former European concession, was originally home to the North China branch of the\u00a0Royal Asiatic Society (RAS),\u00a0an organization [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2090,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13,7,4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2089","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artist","8":"category-auction","9":"category-events","10":"category-gallery","11":"category-latest-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Shanghai\u2019s Rockbund Art Museum Contends with Its Colonial History - Investable Art Auctioneer<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The\u00a0Rockbund Art Museum\u00a0(RAM), a contemporary art museum located in a restored plaster-brick Art Deco building overlooking\u00a0Shanghai\u2019s iconic Bund, has a history that dates back far longer than its opening in 2010.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/artist\/shanghais-rockbund-art-museum-contends-with-its-colonial-history\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Shanghai\u2019s Rockbund Art Museum Contends with Its Colonial History - 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