2025 July Artists in Residence
Residency Works Open Day
It’s going to rain & Devagar
Tielin Ding
Lucas Sales
July 27 (Sunday) 16:00, 2025
两位驻地艺术家分别从自然气象与城市系统切入，但都敏锐地捕捉了秩序即将转变或被挑战的临界状态。
丁铁林的作品聚焦形式和运动状态的重复，能量的聚集过程，通过装置（黄色扫帚，风扇，黄色雨伞, 树叶，石头和电机）以及摄影和绘画的结合，展现自然现象发生前后的张力。Lucas Sales则以上海为背景，观察交通标志等城市符号如何试图引导方向与效率，并将其与充满偶然性和路径偏离的真实生活体验进行对比。他的作品融合交通语言与玩味元素，探讨明确指引与方向不确定性之间的矛盾，以及在快节奏中对放缓的渴望。
本次开放日的核心在于呈现这两位驻地艺术家如何揭示规则与无序之间的动态张力。无论是自然力量蓄势待发的瞬间，还是城市规范与个体自由意志的摩擦点，他们都通过重新诠释日常物品或符号（家用工具/交通标志），邀请观众关注这些存在于我们周遭、充满潜在变化的“秩序边缘”时刻。
The two resident artists approached the issue from the perspectives of natural weather and urban systems, respectively, but both keenly captured the critical state of order that is about to change or be challenged.
Tielin’s installation work ( made of yellow brooms, fans, motor, stone, yellow umbrellas and leaves) focuses on the process of energy gathering before a thunderstorm arrives, where the dynamics of rotating airflow and fluttering leaves occur. It presents the tension of natural laws on the eve of an outbreak. In another two works, he is experimenting with mark-making on print to share his interest in repetition of forms of movements. Lucas Sales uses Shanghai as the background to observe how urban symbols such as traffic signs try to guide direction and efficiency, and compares them with real-life experiences full of contingency and path deviation. His work combines traffic language with playful elements to explore the contradiction between clear guidance and uncertainty of direction, as well as the desire to slow down in a fast pace.
The core of this open day is to show how these two resident artists reveal the dynamic tension between rules and disorder. Whether it is the moment when natural forces are ready to go, or the friction point between urban norms and individual free will, they invite the audience to pay attention to these “edge of order” moments that exist around us and are full of potential changes by reinterpreting everyday objects or symbols (household tools/traffic signs).
Before thunderstorm comes,
swirling vortices of air,
bring leaves floating and in motion.
Brooms, fans, leaf blowers；
It’s a party with flickering lights.
Yes, it is going to rain.
雨夜 Psycho Rain
40.6×87.6cm/16×34.5 inches
水粉，丙烯，收藏级打印 Acrylic and gouache on print
2025
树叶 Leaves
30.5cmx 45.7cm，12×18 inches,
铝板热升华打印 Dye sublimation on aluminum
2025
起风了 It’s going to rain
尺寸可变 Diemnsion variable
黄色扫帚，黄色雨伞，风扇，树叶，电机， 石头 Yellow brooms, yellow umbrella, fans, leaves, stones, motor
2025
布置中 Installation in progress
“在我于上海的驻地期间，我观察到城市图像如何以一种指引的方式塑造日常生活。交通标志试图组织流动方向，但我们并不总是知道该去往何处。城市指引方向，而生活却充满了曲折与偏离。
在这个作品中，我探索了“指导方向”与“不确定”之间的摩擦——在匆忙之中，也存在着“慢下来”的渴望。我将交通语言与具有玩乐性的元素融合在一起，灵感来自我在这里看到的对比：工作的匆忙与那些无需解释的奇思妙想。
通过这些作品，我邀请你慢下来，享受当下的片刻。”
“During my residency in Shanghai, I observed how urban graphics shape everyday life with a promise of direction. Traffic signs try to organize the flow, but we don’t always know where we’re going. The city points the way, but life insists on curves and detours.
In this work, I explore the friction between guidance and uncertainty — between the rush and the desire to go slow. I blend the language of traffic with playful elements, inspired by the contrast I’ve seen here: the hurry of work and the small moments of whimsy that need no explanation.
With these pieces, I invite you to slow down and enjoy the moment.”
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