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English

Lov-Lov
01 October 2019

The Arts: General & Reference; Non-graphic art forms; Individual artists, art monographs

Contemporary artist Lin Jingjing is well known for creating dazzling worlds through her installation, mixed medio and video. The surreal effect created via this method immerses the viewers into another consciousness.

---Through years of education, Marxism has taught me that human development is inevitable, but every news event I see seems to be completely by chance.

Always at the moment we're least prepared, the news uses very calm tones to speak of the most terrifying disasters. This is just like the ruthlessness of life. Who is prepared for the moment when they lose a loved one? In front of the news, we all become survivors, witnesses to violence, tragedy and disaster. Behind every disaster there is a greater disaster. Each instance of suffering eventually becomes a record of numbers. Every journalist who has reported on a disaster or tragedy moves on to waiting for and discovering the next disaster or tragedy. Who has time to linger on yesterday's tragedy, even the shocking news from a second ago?

Have you noticed? News reports are so short in every corner of the world, as if the reporters have all undergone the same exact training. It makes us accept tragedy with familiarity, just as we accept celebrations. The news anticipates celebrations and tragedies in the same way, not even placing one before the other. They are watched together by countless viewers before rapidly disappearing, as if they never happened.

Compared to 'what is happening now', things like 'what we have to say' and 'what we say' seem much more important. Disasters are like culture; they are something we share. This is geography in the truest sense.

Lin Jingjing Notes on: Nobody Knows I was There, Nobody Knows I was Not There: Private Memory

Other: Jingjing Lin
Imprint: Lov-Lov
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 279mm, Spine: 11mm
Weight: 662g
ISBN: 9781646820108
ISBN 10: 164682010X
Pages: 114
Publication Date: 01 October 2019
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Lin Jingjing is a conceptual visual artist whose work deals primarily with social-political themes. She is known for the wide range of approaches in her art, explores the depths of social and personal identity in the context of modern society, often examining themes such as confusion and quest, existence and absence, constraint and resistance through a lens of paradox. Of particular focus is how individuals define themselves amongst the effects of the outside world, vis-�-vis culture, politics, history, and the economy. Her artwork spans performance, installation, painting, mixed media, video, sound, LED lights. The surreal effect created via this method immerses the viewers into another consciousness. Jingjing 's works have been exhibited in major public museums and galleries, including de Sarthe, Hong Kong; Song Zhuang Art Museum in Beijing; Residency Unlimited(RU), New York; Neues Kunstforum, Cologne, Alexander Ochs Gallery, Beijing; Museo sin muros - Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Mall Plaza Vespucio, Santiago, Chile, Museo sin muros - Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Mall Plaza Trebol, Concepci�n, Chile; Whitebox Art Center, Beijing; Magee Art Gallery, Madrid. She has also exhibited in group exhibitions worldwide: Red Gate Gallery, Beijing; Long Museum, Shanghai; Right View Art Museum, Beijing; Third Biennale Italy-China, Turin; Galerie Herold/K�nstlerhaus G�terabfertigung, Bremen /Germany; OV Gallery, Shanghai;Tree Art Museum, Beijing, Leonard Pearlstein Gallery at Drexel University, Philadelphia; Long De Xuan Contemporary Art Center, Beijing; Cruzando el horizonte: Exposici�n de Arte Contempor�neo de China, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile etc. Lin Jingjing currently lives and works in New York, USA, and Beijing, China. www.jingjinglin.com