“C+C" Media Art Residency

Cunming Sun attended the Jiangnan University and the ENSBA Lyon, respectively, obtaining a bachelor's degree in literature, a degree in arts, followed by a master's degree in art. Sun’s work is fraught with signs gleaned from his daily life. His visual language is laconic by nature, by working with ready-made products, often changing the object's original semantics, in order to extend its appearance romantically or ambiguously by means of subtle variation. Sun used his gestures as the response to reality, addressing themes of cultural identity, individuality, and the overarching constructs which govern such concepts. Visual elements are presented in a strained way, illuminating the self-reflective quality of itself. His media-diverse practice encompasses ready-made and found objects in addition to film and video. Cunming Sun has solo exhibitions and projects in PLATESPACE, Hua International, Qi Mu Space, Galerie Houg (Paris); he has group exhibitions in CHAO Art Center, Taikang Space, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Invogue Gallery (Ukraine), Beijing Contemporary Art Expo, 61e Salon de Montrouge (Paris), En Résonance avec 13e Biennale de Lyon.

孙存明先后就读于江南大学和法国里昂国立高等美术学院，分别获得文学学士学位、艺术本科学位及艺术硕士学位。孙存明的作品充满了从日常生活中汲取的符号和信息。他的视觉语言本质上是简明含蓄的，通过对现成品的运用，物体原有的语义随之改变，作品的呈现也在微妙的变化中浪漫和暧昧。孙存明的作品基于对现实的回应，他关注文化身份与属性、个体认知以及这些概念之上的总体结构。他作品中的视觉元素充满张力，阐明了其自省的内核。他的创作媒介涵盖了影像、现成品、雕塑等。他的近年个展及项目曾在PLATESPACE、户尔空间、七木空间、法国Houg画廊展出；他参加群展的机构、画廊和艺术节包括CHAO艺术中心、泰康空间、蜂巢当代艺术中心、乌克兰Invogue画廊、北京当代艺术展、61届蒙鲁日当代艺术展(Salon de Montrouge)、2015里昂双年展平行单元(Résonance)等。

From A Boy to A Man III 
Installation: Wooden Door, Neon Tube, Rolled Steel

The advent of door is to distinguish two spaces that are originally connected to each other. A wooden door of a room points to a family story in which there is a relationship between family members as well as between family and society. The transformation from one story to another, in which the door appears in the process, is quite amazing.

The door is also a symbol of growth. The door is removed from its original environment, and in previous scenes it was treated as a fully functional presence. Everyone used and

observed it only in a flat dimension. In the exhibition, I present the complete door frame and door panel as a sculpture. This change in the way of viewing frees the "door" as an object from its single function.

On the front of the door panel, I enlarged a scrawled handwriting and then made a neon tube according to the handwriting trend. It recreates the memories of scribbling on the door of the house as a child. This kind of unconscious scribbling is actually a self-consistent way of a little boy’s environment.

门的出现是为了区别开彼此原本联通的两个空间。一张木头的房门，所指向的家庭故事中，既有家庭成员之间的，也有家庭与社会之间的关系。从一个故事转换为另一个故事，在这个过程中门的出现是奇妙的。

门也是个成长的符号。这扇门是从原有的环境中拆除下来的，在以往的场景中，它被当做一个完全功能性的存在。大家对它的使用与观察都只是一个平面维度的。展览中，我将完整的门框和门板像雕塑一样呈现出来。给到一个多维度的观看，这种观看方式的改变解放了“门”作为物件本身的单一功能性。

门板的正面我将一个涂写的笔迹放大，然后根据笔迹的走势来做了一个霓虹灯管。还原了小时候都会在家里的门上涂涂画画的回忆。这种无意识地涂写其实是一个小男孩所处环境的一种自洽方式。

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