From SIMA Yuan

1 - 22 May 2019

My recent solo exhibition, 'Art Is An Endless Acquisition', in Beijing at TELESCOPE was heavily influenced by my time at the Trelex Esp'Asse residency in Nyon. Maybe the most interesting thing on the residency was meeting artists from all over the world and listening to their stories. 

While in Switzerland I gathered “evidence” of my daily consumption, such as train tickets, supermarket shopping lists, chocolate papers, maps, bread bags, receipts from restaurant, and exhibition tickets. And then transformed them to something permanent. I believe that the most important thing in creation is the insight into the essence of things, the imagination, and the structural control of the materials. They seem to be anti-violence, anti-motion, and anti-labor. It seems that you only need to "acquire" and "select". 

Life is a process of "choice." What to eat every day, where to ride, what to buy, what to wear, whom to chat with, what exhibition to watch... These choices seem random, but they are based on the judgment of some experience. Choosing life is creating life. The images are the “evidences of my choice”. My work is to interfere or change them and make them become evidence of my thinking.

Article from TELESCOPE, where I held my solo show, with live photos and an introduction to the space. And a live video of the exhibition including an interview with me. Translated version below:

Sima Yuan (Michelle) graduated from the London College of Communication and currently resides in Beijing, China where she continues to create artwork at her self-named SIMA Art Museum. She is simultaneously the director, curator, artist, exhibition decorator, audience, material and exhibit.