“JUNK” Passage Gallery in Sydney, Australia
Solo Show: JUNK
Artist: Xiao Lu
Work: JUNK (Installation/Performance)
Passage Gallery, Sydney
14 June -19 July 2024
About “JUNK”
A black room, visible round the clock from the outside through glass.
A black table, a bottle of ink, a brush-pen, several stacks of xuan paper. Eight red light bulbs.
I come to Passage Gallery irregularly. Using ink, I scrawl freely on sheet after sheet of xuan paper and then throw them in the air. Gradually, rubbish fills the space.
For thousands of years in China, literary scholars have moved in the detachment of painting landscapes and flowers-and-birds. Savouring the exquisite elegance of the otherworldly aesthetics of avoiding reality, they have achieved a nation which has seen generation after generation of centralized feudal and imperial power.
I have come from China, where there is a strict system of art censorship with untouchable red lines everywhere. The self-censorship of art organisations and artists erodes everybody’s spirit.
The blackness surrounds me: terror, oppression, helplessness, anger, despair, freedom, roaring, resistance...
And one other thing: it can go to fucking hell.
Junk!
— Xiao Lu
Happening of various of the night or day, each performance involves the use a bottle of ink and 100 pieces of rice paper.
First Performance 14 June, 2024 6:30-8:30pm 100 rice paper
Second Performance 18 June, 2024 3:00-4:30pm 200 rice paper
Third Performance 19 June, 2024 11:15am-13:15pm. 300 pieces rice paper
Fourth Performance 21 June, 2024 16:00-18:00pm. 400 rice paper
Fifth Performance 24 June, 2024 15:30-17:30pm 500 rice paper
Sixth Performance 27 June, 2024 15:30-18:40pm 600 rice paper
Seventh Performance 29 June, 2024 15:30-17:30pm 700 rice paper
Eighth Performance 1 July, 2024 15:30-17:30pm 800 rice paper
Ninth Performance 2 July, 2024 15:30-17:30pm 900 pieces rice paper
Tenth Performance 4 July, 2024 15:00-17:00pm 1000 rice paper
Eleventh Performance 6 July, 2024 16:00-18:00pm 1100 pieces rice paper
Twelfth Performance 8 July, 2024 15:30-17:30pm 1200 pieces rice paper
Thirteenth Performance 9 July, 2024 15:30-17:00pm 1300 pieces rice paper
Fourteenth Performance 11 July, 2024 15:30-17:00pm 1400 pieces rice paper
Fifteenth Performance 15 July,2024 15:00-17:00pm 1500 rice paper Photo by Olivia Ma
Sixteenth Performance 16 July,2024 15:30-18:30pm 1600 rice paper Photo by Olivia Ma
JUNK Installation / Performance 14 June - 16 July 2024 Photo by Xiao Lu
Passage website：https://www.passagegallery.com/xiao-lu-mandarin
JUNK performance video link：https://www.instagram.com/p/C90h6yDSfH7/