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ARTIST ARCHIVE
Bing Hu
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Themes: abstract, conceptual, gender/sexuality, traditional Review: Bing Hu creates installations with industrial materials such as water containers and the remains of cars and their smashed windshields. Bing Hu's diasporic experience in the United States has encouraged her spirit freely move around her work surroundings and helped her master the relationship between herself and the materials that she uses. The strategy for her work that she has found in the United States seems to be ironically based on Taoist philosophy, one of the major traditional Asian philosophies which has been sanctioned in Mainland China for many decades. Bing Hu describes her work as "When I turn my eyes to shattered windshields, the nature of the smashed glass suggests that I am not dominant in the relationship between myself and the materials - rather the found materials take the lead. This revelation causes me to be more spontaneous and allows me to introduce movement and other gestures that stems from my interest in the sculptural process." Incorporating found materials, which she finds in the streets of her Brooklyn neighborhood, into her spontaneous working method, she intends to have some moment in which all the materials that she uses and herself communicate harmoniously and produce some beautiful work that would be able to freeze the fleeting notion of present time and object. Available materials on this artist in the AAAC Archives are 26 slides, a catalog of a group exhibition in which her installation was included and invitation cards. | |||||||||
