Rosewood Beijing and RollingStone Dashuihua jointly planned and launched a special female-themed exhibition "She and Her", which was warmly opened on May 21, 2021 in the spa suite on the 6th floor of Rosewood Beijing Hotel, the business center of Beijing.
"She and Her" uses the video works of artist Wang Yingying as the story line, and invites her to create an art space unique to contemporary women for us. Through a series of delicate and shocking black and white portraits, it leads the audience to feel the lack or attachment and comprehension of women's hearts The ups and downs and gains of individual life.
Feel the harvest of life in the "hers and hers" room
British female writer Virginia Woolf built a "women's own room" in the novel with pen and ink in her hands. The camera viewfinder in the artist’s hands, as well as this suite at the Rosewood Hotel in Beijing, are also the “self-space” for women to express themselves freely.
In this exhibition, the audience can roam freely in the spa suite on the 6th floor of the Rosewood Beijing Hotel and appreciate the "Body" and "Portrait" series of artist Wang Yingying's "Forty: 1976". This group of works deeply explores age from a female perspective, starting from the author's own thinking and questioning of the age of "forty", and photographed 36 people from all over the country who were born in 1976 in 2016. female.
Ms. Martha Mao Mao, Regional Sales and Marketing Director of Rosewood Hotel Beijing delivered an opening speech for the exhibition, and then the artist Wang Yingying personally shared her creative opportunities and shooting experience with the guests present. Based on a woman's personal life experience, she leads everyone to think about issues such as individual emotions and self-identity of contemporary women.
art and fragrance
Draw a portrait of "them"
At the exhibition site, Editions de Parfums Frédéric Malle Perfume Publishing House used fragrance to start a dialogue with "Her and Her" about the olfactory experience. While conveying the fragrance with artistic visual language, it mobilized the stories in the mind through the fragrance smell and memories, providing a double enjoyment of smell and vision for the exhibition "Her and Her".
Editions de Parfums Frédéric Malle Fragrance Products
If perfume is a portrait of the user, then this portrait depicts her innate thoughts and temperament - just like the women in the "Forty: 1976" series: free and have their own A style that perfectly matches the portrait of a woman represented by Editions de Parfums Frédéric Malle's most iconic fragrance, "Portrait of a Lady".
From the selection and cultivation of raw materials, to the extraction and balance of spices, perfumers, like artists, create masterpieces in the world of fragrance with precise fragrance style. "Portrait of a Lady" fragrance uses subversive rose concentration to outline a rumored portrait of a lady, noble, elegant and magnificent, reversing the original weak meaning of roses, and creating an elegant and warm independent woman image.
Forty: 1976
Embrace the fullness of the years
Over thousands of years of cultural history, we have been conditioned to view women's bodies in public spaces. The smooth skin was traced by the painter Raphael with delicate brushstrokes, and the flawless body was chiseled by the sculptor Alexandros with warm marble. Scars and wrinkles, however, are reserved only for women to sigh in the mirror alone in a room.
Artist Wang Yingying uses video as a medium, focusing on the propositions of women's lives, individual emotions and identity, showing the characteristics that are difficult for ordinary people to perceive, but have the characteristics of revealing the essence of things.
The artist has re-examined the ever-changing body undergoing aging, childbirth and other factors, interweaving the body and writing into a visual poetry collection. In the visual space established between the disordered portraits and the body, a profound reflection on the relationship between age, time and identity is completed.
Wang Yingying x Zhu Yujie
Dialogue in a room belonging to "them"
Left|Writer and curator Zhu Yujie
Right | Artist Wang Yingying
On May 21st, the "She and Her" female-themed special exhibition was honored to invite writer and curator Zhu Yujie to have a dialogue with artist Wang Yingying. In this room belonging to "She and Her", women's age, time and A profound reflection on the relationship between identities.
Wang Yingying and Zhu Yujie shared a wide range of topics on creators and women's identities. When discussing "how to look at the relationship between creative expression and life", Zhu Yujie believes: "Writers and artists should not just sit in their study, but also have connections with other people in the world." Wang Yingying also believes that creation has long been Integrating with her life, the boundary between creation and daily life becomes more and more blurred.
The discussion on "age anxiety" triggered the active participation of the audience. Wang Yingying uses literature, photography, and documentaries as a means of self-exploration. Her creations not only help her resist age anxiety, body humiliation, or sexism from the outside world, but are also a tool for her self-healing and self-growth. She believes that she appreciates her current self more than her younger self ten years ago, and looks forward to what she will be like when she is fifty or sixty years old. "My ideal is to be an old lady who can dance disco at the age of eighty." Wang Yingying added.
Zhu Yujie also shared his thoughts on life when he moved from the city to the suburbs. She moved away from the bustling downtown of Shanghai, and came to the edge of the city surrounded by greenery, writing, communicating, exercising, and thinking in her well-built residence...
From objects stared at by desire in artistic expression to "invisible people" lacking in political discourse, women in modern society still suffer from being objectified, women's poverty, age anxiety, and body attacks... Fortunately, from Marie Curie , Mary Shelley, Sarah Lucas, Yoko Ono, artist Wang Yingying, writer and curator Zhu Yujie, there are always outstanding independent women who are at the forefront of the spirit of the times, and there are thousands of "hers" behind them. "Stand together and express their female power and independent thinking with powerful works.
Maybe they are no longer young, maybe they have never been perfect... But in this room, "she and she" can stop anxiety and uneasiness, face the gains and ups and downs of life, and feel the unique existence of oneself.
