Run Jiang
RUN JIANG
(Chinese, Dalian, 1986)
O que me quero dizer - Desenhos a carvão sobre papel
29 de Fevereiro a 20 de Janeiro 2022
Run Jiang started drawing dreams in 2012. His dreams. It's a systematic record, made on an ongoing basis and which develops alongside her other projects. More than an attraction to the bizarre plots of the unconscious, she is driven by an identity impulse to reveal the inner world, to exercise memory, to crystallise small segments of this almost possible alternative reality in which individual history is also constructed.
In this exhibition, which brings together about twenty works, the title chosen - What I want to tell myself - reinforces the artist's desire to carry out personal research that gives voice to herself in this process of self-knowledge. She makes around ten images a year and tries to be as faithful as possible to the elements she remembers when she wakes up. Sometimes she simulates the posture of sleeping, making this intimate performative gesture the fuse for recovering the salvage of the night.
The scenes bring out familiar characters: her husband, her parents, her grandparents, her friends and colleagues, her cat. And alongside them, Run Jiang also represents herself, in this dialogue of being outside and inside the dream at the same time. Because this is her perspective. But more than the characters, he remembers actions, very precise moments - as in the image of the hand wounded by a pike - or situations in progress - when in another a girl gets up and walks to the door. Here the idea of fluid time is conveyed by multiplying the figure in different positions, concentrating the narrative in a single image.
He draws with charcoal pencils and always on the same type of paper. Recently, she swapped the expressive line of the scribbler, used without aids, for the certainty of the line supported by the ruler. And the paper chosen has also become denser.
The miniature, almost childlike character with which he represents the human figure is articulated with the constant marking of an architectural space seen as a sketch. This is fundamental for situating events, even if sometimes inside and outside are confused. Like in dreams.
He draws what he remembers, how he remembers it. Sometimes familiar places appear: his parents' house, his home, the university. Other times, anonymous places that are formalised with the strangeness of what memory crystallises. One of these images, dominated by the outline of a hollow structure, shows what appears to be a game between men and women, shaped by a device of walls and tables where eggs and sperm can be seen. And the audience watches: ‘I join the people to see the show. The men dance facing sperm, and the women have chicken eggs in front of them’
What for the viewer will always be stories with which they may or may not identify, for the artist are real memories of the dreams she has had and reproduces, anchoring the drawing in a brief writing that helps her recall the captive dream. And in numerical titles that index memory and image in the vein of a chronology.
Born in 1986 in Dalian, China. She graduated in cinema at the China Academy of Art (2009) and completed hers Masters in Fine Arts with jury praise at the Marseille School of Fine Arts (2013).
She was awarded a scholarship by MArt, a school and space for artistic residencies in Lisbon (2017-2018). In 2017, she was selected for the Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso award (Portugal) and was one of the nominees for the FID award (France).
She lives and works in Lisbon, exhibiting regularly in Portugal and abroad. Highlights include the presentations at the National Museum of Contemporary Art, in Lisbon, Quinta Magnolia-Centro Cultural in Funchal, Emmerico Nunes Cultural Center in Sines and the Istituto centrale per la grafica Museum in Rome.
Her works are part of public and private collections, such as those of the Art Library of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, the Camões Institute or the University of Rome "Tor Vergata".
Run Jiang – CV
Education
2013 – 2015 : Curso de teatro, Universidade Paris 8, Paris, França.
2012 – 2013 : Mestrado em artes plásticas, Escola superior de arte e design Marseille-Méditerranée, Marselha, França.
2012 – 2012 : Programa Erasmus, Escola de belas artes Massana, Barcelona, Espanha.
2010 – 2011 : Licenciatura em Artes Plásticas, Escola Superior de Arte e Design Marseille-Méditerranée, Marselha, França
2005 – 2009 : Licenciatura em cinema e publicidade Academia de Arte da China, HangZhou, China
Solo Exhibitions
2020 : WITH MY OWN EYES, Galeria A Montanha, Lisboa, Portugal
Group Exhibitions
2021 :
HAMMER TIME, Galeria Zaratan, Lisboa, Portugal
WHOSE MASKS, Quinta Magnolia-Centro Cultural, Funchal, Portugal
BESTIARIUM, Atenas Centro de Arte da Gravura, Atenas, Graça
2020 :
5a edição da mOstra 2020, Lisboa, Portugal
Exposição Online da 3ª Ilustração e Imagem da China-Europa
ARTISTAS EM QUARENTENA online exposição, Espaço Merces, Lisboa, Portugal
2019 :
ORTO DI INCENDIO, Istituto centrale per la grafica, Museo dell’Istituto, Roma, Italia
2018 :
PELE—ÁGUA, Museu da Água: Estação Elevatória a Vapor dos Barbadinhos
2017 :
11ª EDIÇÃO DO PRÉMIO AMADEO DE SOUZA-CARDOSO, Museu Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso, Amarante, Portugal
NÃO, OBRIGADA, com Luis Almeida, Espaço AZ, Lisboa, Portugal
ACADEMIA PARIETAL, Livraria Sá da Costa, Lisboa, Portugal
ESCALAS DESEJANTES, Museu Nacional de História Natural e da ciência, Lisboa, Portugal
MARRIAGE, com Luis Almeida, Centro Cultural Emmerico Nunes, Sines, Portugal
2016 :
SEM ESCRÚPULO, Galeria 78/80, Lisboa, Portugal
ESCOLA DE LÍNGUAS, Ateliers Livraria Sá da Costa / Museu de São Roque, Lisboa, Portugal
2015 :
VAGA LUZ, Fundação Casa -Museu Medeiros e Almeida, Lisboa, Portugal
Projecto Mupi no espaço publico de Lisboa, Portugal
2014 :
Exposição dos finalistas 2013 da Escola superior de arte e design Marseille-Méditerranée, Galeria
HLM, Marselha, França
Prémios
2017 : Seleccionada para a 11ª edição do prémio Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso, Portugal
2017 : Nomeada do FID Prize, França
Colections
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Biblioteca de Arte Gulbenkian
Instituto Camões
Universidade de Roma «Tor Vergata»