Ju Anqi - Restricted: Gaze

Ju Anqi 雎安奇

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Restricted: Gaze

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Ju Anqi 雎 安 奇 Restricted: Gaze R 級：觀 癖

北 京 德 薩 畫 廊 De sarthe gallery - Beijing

Born in 1975 in Urumqi, Xinjiang province, Ju Anqi graduated from the Directing Department of the Beijing Film Academy. As one of the most widely recognized directors from China’s “New Generation” of filmmakers and multi-media artists, Ju’s experimental films have been exhibited in the Centre Pompidou (Paris), MoMA (New York) and Lincoln Center (New York). Ju’s debut film was ‘There’s a Strong Wind in Beijing’, which was shot on films 8 years after their expiration date, was selected for the entry of the Berlin International Film Festival in 2000, and became the milestone for Chinese Experimental films. His recently finished film ‘Poet on a Business Trip’ premiered at the 44thedition of the International Film Festival of Rotterdam, which won the Netpac Award Winner, and the Grand Prize at the 16thJeoju International Film Festival as well as three other international awards. In April 2016, Ju Anqi produced a new film ‘A Missing Policeman’ which co-starred over 20 contemporary artists from China. Film critic Tony Rans praised all the co-stars of as the sole engineers of this film. As one of the few Chinese cross-media artists, his independent practice incorporates a multi-faceted body of artworks with film and LED light boxes forming the crux of his output.

Restricted: Gaze 2016 Three channel color video, silent 17’18”

Restricted: Gaze No. 1 2016 Giclee print mounted on aluminium 85 x 150 cm

Restricted: Gaze No. 2 2016 Giclee print mounted on aluminium 85 x 150 cm

Restricted: Gaze No. 3 2016 Giclee print mounted on aluminium 85 x 150 cm

Restricted: Gaze No. 4 2016 Giclee print mounted on aluminium 85 x 150 cm

Restricted: Gaze No. 5 2016 Giclee print mounted on aluminium 85 x 150 cm

Restricted: Gaze No. 6 2016 Giclee print mounted on aluminium 85 x 150 cm

Restricted: Gaze No. 7 2016 Giclee print mounted on aluminium 85 x 150 cm

JU ANQI 1975 Born in Ürümqi, Xinjiang, China

EDUCATION 1999 B.F.A Department of Directing, Beijing Film Academy, Beijing, China

SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2016 Restricted: Gaze, de Sarthe Project Space, Beijing, China Beijing Railyway, Mo Shang Experiment, Beijing, China Big Characters, Beijing 3 Gallery, Beijing, China 2015 Ju Anqi: Action Trilogy, UCCA, Beijing, China Action Triology: Ju Anqi’s Retrospective, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China

GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2017 Tales of Our Time Film Program, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA The Vågestykke Project, National Public Art Organization, Bergen University College, Norway China Independent 2017, Filmpodium Der Stadt, Zurich, Switzerland 2016 Go Live, Tong Gallery, Beijing, China Art of the Real, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea Cross Boundaries: Moving Images from China, Barcelona, Spain; Santa Monica, US

2016 DRAFT, Institute for Contemporary Art Research, Zurich, Switzerland Imagery and Imagination – Uneasy Trip to China (curatorial program at the Fourth Arkipel International Documentary & Experimental Film Festival), Jakarta, Indonesia A Desire to Express in Cold Form, Mo Shang Gallery, Beijing, China Our Future, Red Brick Museum, Beijing, China Hyper Text, Intelligentsia Gallery, Beijing, China 2015 Covered Art of the Real, Lincoln Center, New York, US New Newspeak, C-Space, Beijing, China People’s Bathhouse, Intelligentsia Gallery, Beijing, China Ash, Blade, Frame, Ocean, Jimei x Arles: East West Encounters International Photo Festival, Xiamen, China No Real Body – Third Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art, Ural, Russia VOID: there’s nothing more left, but a little trace from human beings, Gingko Space, Beijing, China 2014 DIE 8 DER WEGE, Uferhallen, Berlin, Germany 2003 What About China?, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

Published on the occasion of de Sarthe Gallery - Project Space exhibition:

JU ANQI - RESTRICTED: GAZE January 7, 2016 - February 26, 2017

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