On June 27, 2013, the group exhibition “The Black Dwarf/ Part 1” opened at Star Gallery in 798 Art District, Beijing, featuring the works by Navachaa, Liu Fujie, and Fan Xi.

Navachaa considers self-experience as a thrilling transcendent adventure, revealing the truth hidden in mind by clearly performance of tactile sensation. Liu Fujie has always described the weak sense of presence as being exhausted in causality of fate, moved by the efforts to seek a better future, even though the efforts always seem in vain, as if going through a door from one prison into another one. Through a lens, Fan Xi frankly looks at moving beings, like bright sunlight in your eyes, her lens touches the inviolable dignity and the truth behind appearances, while all things are carefully treated and profiled, including a kernel of a grass.

Navachaa

Born in Inner Mongolia, in 1984, Na Buqi graduated from CAFA, with a Master’s degree in 2013. She held a solo exhibition entitled Static Electricity in Eastation Gallery, Beijing, China in 2012. Group exhibitions include The Black Dwarf/ Part 1(Star Gallery, Beijing, China, 2013), Undifferentiated Ⅱ – Planktonic (Li Space, Beijing, China, 2012), Cold Encounter (Soka Art Center, Beijing, China, 2012), Women’s Voices – Contemporary Female Artists Exhibition (Tree Museum, Beijing, China, 2012), Art Nova 100 (Enjoy Museum of Art, Beijing, China, 2012), Containing Paper Nourishing Mind (Beijing Space, Beijing, China, 2011), Broken (Angela Li Gallery, Hong Kong, China, 2009), My LOGO (Contemporary Art Exhibition, Beijing, China, 2008), From Zero to Hero (Star Gallery, Beijing, China, 2008), M50 Creative Cutting-Edge Exhibition (Shanghai, China, 2008), Roulette (Institute of Sculpture, CAFA, Beijing, China, 2007), Second Annual Exhibition of Green School(Star Gallery, Beijing, China, 2007).

Liu Fujie

Born in Handan, Hebei Province, in 1983, Liu Fujie graduated from CAFA, with a Master's degree in 2013. Her exhibitions include: The Black Dwarf/ Part 1(Star Gallery, Beijing, China, 2013), The mARkeT 2009: In the Making (Beijing Center for the Arts, Beijing, China, 2009), Roulette (Institute of Sculpture, CAFA, Beijing, China, 2007).

Fan Xi

Born in Zibo, Shandong Province, in 1984, Fan Xi studied at the Department of Sculpture, CAFA. Her exhibitions include The Black Dwarf/ Part 1(Star Gallery, Beijing, China, 2013), Hodgepodge - Visual Rhetoric of a Young Generation (Jinji Lake Museum, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China, 2013), Art Nova 100 (ARARIO Beijing, Beijing, China, 2012), The Amnesia and Found (Gallery Beijing Space, Beijing, China, 2012), Women’s Voices – Contemporary Female Artists Exhibition (Tree Museum, Beijing, China, 2012).

About the exhibition

Dates: June 27 - July 25, 2013

Venue: Star Gallery, 798 Art Zone No.2 Jiuxianqiao Road, Chaoyang District Beijing, China

 Translated by Chen Peihua and edited by Sue/CAFA ART INFO