On May 28 QI MU SPACE will host “Departing”, its third exhibition
since its founding, presenting two site-specific installations by three
architect: “C.No.2” by Wang Zhenfei and Wang Luming, and “Out of Place” by Chen
Xia. From professional perspective, they draw on their hands-on experience
and working methods as experienced architects, and by means of installation,
they share with the audience their observation and reflection on the rapid
development in the Chinese context.
This exhibition focuses on the
architectural experience, born of their working mode and thinking habits formed
in objective conditions, not necessarily by interest. It is the observation and
reflection from the perspective of architects that QI MU is aimed to highlight
in this exhibition.
From installation to exhibition planning
and landscape architecture, and to large scale business building complexes,
Wang Zhenfei is involved in more than one field dealing with the physical space
in an abstract way based on mathematical and geometrical operation rules. “C.No.2” is a
site-specific installation on the “regulation and
control” practice that is particular to China and its result. Unlike other
works in the same series, this one here are uniquely presented due to the time,
the space and other conditions, but it nevertheless falls into the same group
called “Family” , which operates under the same arithmetical rule, therefore
another complete case in the architects’ line.
Chen Xia, founder and general designer of
landscape in Dadi Zhongyi Landscape Architecture Consultant Company, has
witnessed the transformations urbanization has brought to China. In urban
construction, landscape architecture, is usually built on municipal waste or
the demolished quarters, playing the role of “blank filling”. “Out of Place” generally means
sudden growth, rise or change. The main structure of this installation is made
of material for disposable chopsticks, as high as two meters, with stainless
steel as symbol for land. This work shows the architect’s reflection
on rapid constructions and her observation and questioning of the corrupted
infrastructure construction.
About the artists:
Wang Zhenfei graduated form School of
Architecture, Tianjin University with a Bachelor’s Degree and got a
Master’s degree from Berlage Institute of the Netherlands in 2007. He
worked in UNStudio in the Netherlands before he came back to China in 2008 and
founded HHD_FUN with Wang Luming. As general architect of the company, he
is also co-founder of DADA, member of the Academic Committee of Digital
Architect, Institute of Chinese Architects.
Chen Xia graduated from School of
Architect, CAFA, with a Bachelor’s degree (2006) and a master’s degree. In 2010
she opened Co-Forge Architecture Design Consulting Co.Ltd (Beijing) Architectural Design Consultation Company and
worked as general architecture for landscape planning. In 2015 she founded LCA(Beijing) Landscape Consultanting Co.Ltd and has since then been
working as general designer of landscape.
