Agrarian Memory part 1HERVE Christelle 何雨晨

researches from 09/2012-01/2013

Supervisor: 邱志杰

Questions

HUMAN

How the farming of the land affected the body of the Human? What does reminder about the Man of the city his peasant origins? What are the common points between the city-dweller and the farmer? Which knowledge the Man of the city still know from his ancestors the peasants? What is the link between the cultivated Man and the Man who cultivates? What is the relation between the People and the soil in the countryside? What it is the relation between the People and the soil in the city?

TERRITORY What is the inheritance and the heritage of the agrarian society in the contemporary society? What is the link between the city territory and the countryside today? What remind the agrarian origins of the Chinese society in the city? What remind the agrarian origins of the Chinese society in the countryside?

Zhejiang’s farmes

Notes written in the train

Hangzhou-Shanghai, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012

Under advertising hoardings, under rails of the train, under highways, the soil. Under the light of the lampposts which line traffic lanes, the grey soil, clayey, black during the rainy days. The material is accurately classified, crumbled, hoed. Between two cities, a web is streched out, between four heaps of ground, very straight furrows fill the square. As a tidy hair, combed, every square meter of soil is cultivated: from the bombard electric to another one, from a post of advertising hoarding to a tree, between a tarred passage and walls of a house, under the pipe of waste water which circulates in the air, on one stumble, on a heap, at the edge of a road, in a ditch Under the flux of the world, included in the patchwork of cultivated plots of land, two or three-storeyed houses with the white, grey, pink, green, blue ceramic walls. Green or blues ink windows. Something shines, a ball on the roof of the house, a rail at the level of the staircase, the spangled tiled roof of the house... Animals are rare, two, three poultry trample on a heap of something. A sticky water, blue and green stagnates at the bottom of a ditch.

Graphic

[Autobiography]

The Gates of the family farm Hervé France, august 2012

sery of 3 photographies

[Art works]

Bamboo skin scanned

HumanPart 1

Les Femmes Tamponsoverview, june 2012

四海艺同、和而不同The 5th biennale exhibition of

the International College of China Academy of ArtThe China Academy of Art Gallery, Hangzhou

Les Femmes Tamponsdetail, june 2012

YinNi red ink, Sen Xuan papers178*305cm

From the Hand to the Feetweb’s view, june 2012

Monaddigital web exhibitionhttp://www.monaddigital.net/

From the Hand to the Feetoverview, june 2012

Body scanned1 photo

170*35cm

Vertebrataoverview, december 2012

Monaddigital web exhibitionhttp://www.monaddigital.net/

Vertebratadetails, 2012

gif

Skinoverview of the blue drawing, november 2012

Skindetail of the blue drawing, november 2012

sery of 5 drawingsblue, black, red, pink, green ball-point pens

97*117cm each drawing

Wake the Beastoverview, november 2012

Bazaar Art Space, Shanghai

Wake the Beastdetail, november 2012

cow skinpliers

Reverse cow skin

TerritoryPart 2

Scan Countrysideoverview, may 2011

“Folded Plane” exhibitionMingyuan Art Center, Shanghai

Scan Countrysidedetail, may 2011

Scanned pictures of Shanghai’s ground10 photographies

1,50m*5m

Culture Cube overview, december 2012

Displace Exhibition, Rethinking a forgotten placePhoenix Creative Garden

Culture Cubedetail, december 2012

sqarres of grass, pink string

Group Exhibitions:

2012 DisplacePhoenix Creative Garden, Hangzhou, China

2012 Wake the beastBazaar Art Space, Shanghai

2012 Give me a gif.http://www.monaddigital.net/reflectspace.htmlTMCL studio, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China

2012 XINGHanting Inns & Hotels,No 218 Nanshan Road, Hangzhou, China

2012 discover the body onlinehttp://www.monaddigital.net/reflectspace.htmlChilvarous Cantaloup Commune Workshop, Shanghai

2012 造.化快意空间,Hangzhou China

2012 四海艺同、和而不同The 5th biennale exhibitionof the International College ofChina Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China

2011 Portrait of Childhood (1): 1600 A.D farawayChilvarous Cantaloup Commune Workshop,Shanghai

2011 Real Game Fake Lifehttp://www.monaddigital.net/reflectspace.html

2011 Folded PlaneMingyuan Art Center, Shanghai, China

2011 Invisible LandscapeFangxiang Art Center, Hangzhou, China

2011 Hollow BoxDongzha Contemporary Art Center, Jiaxing, China

2010 improbable&improvise&immersionFlower Market An Shun, Shanghai, China

2010 TranslationNanjing University of the Arts, China

2010 Itinéraires Graphiques, La MenaceBiennale of Graphic Arts,Galerie du Faouedic, Lorient, France

2009 Le Charpentier“L’Art Chemin Faisant” festival,Pont-Scorff, France

2005 La barricade des bocauxFestival des Lumières, Lyon, France

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