Bingy (Chinese, born 1975).
Bingyi's ink landscapes are depictions of nature as the sublime, as a higher power. As humans are part of nature, she "allows the expression of nature to be realized," most nbotably in her brushwork. Like the Song dynasty (960-1279) palaces of old decorated with landscape paintings, Bingyi creates a portable palace, hanging her works on a structure to suggest a temple or church-like setting. Placed within the museum's palace receptiojn hall of the Ming dynasty (1368-1644), memories of family and ancestors are remembered through this immersive experience. As Bingyi explains:
"The reception hall is about the memory of a family, a specific chronology, and lineage. This notion of family that organizes and puts humanity into order is a very specific Chinese sense of the universe. Imagine the lineage of a family as a godly presence. Nature is just that, because to us, family is also a part of how we relate to the world. So as I walk inside of the temple, what I see is all humanity coming together through time.
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