Lin Tianmiao Solo Exhibition 纏繞的黑白灰之間:林天苗個展

Lin Tianmiao Solo Exhibition 

Lin Tianmiao is one of the first Chinese female artists to achieve international recognition. She is known for her practice of thread winding in which she binds the material – usually silk, hair, cotton, or felt – tightly around found and manufactured objects. Initially tasked by her mother to spool cotton as a young girl, Lin later reclaimed the act. Lin’s work studies her own social role and the relationship between identity and social context, questioning the identity of woman and the conventional idea of the social role of woman as mother.

This year in NUNU FINE ART, LIN will have her classic series “Seeing Shadow”, “Black-White-Grey”, “Blue Infrastructure”, “Meshes Series”, and “More or Less the same” in the show, which embody the artist’s insistence on the the winding elements and the deconstruction of the artifacts. Using threads as phrases, the winding as input method, this choice has already revealed the motive of the creator, even though the work itself does not develop a feminine temperament deliberately. LIN then uses the threads to visualize the winding process through repetitive physical actions; refined, meticulous, and orderly landscape strings up the individual behavior and the collective phenomenon, arriving at the point of pure beauty. After the works are placed into space, the interpretation built up by visitors’ experience and value plays as the last stitch that integrates the external experience and internal meanings. Thus, it shows that LIN’s works reach harmony between its visual and context languages, from the initial stages of using materials, through constructing messages, to being experienced as a whole in a space.