HUIJUN LU & ROSALYNN VAN HUMMEL | «Bodies of Water»
25 Fevevereiro 2025 16h00
HUIJUN LU & ROSALYNN VAN HUMMEL
Bodies of Water
Bodies of Water
Open Studio | 25-26-27 February,16:00-20:00
Artist Talk | 27 February, at 18:00
Artist Talk | 27 February, at 18:00
Following a four-week residency at Zaratan, Huijun Lu and Rosalynn van Hummel present an exhibition exploring water and its diverse visual, sonic, and sensorial manifestations. Bringing together the mediums of sound, video, interactive electronics, and painting, the artists present the element’s fluid meanings from feminine and more-than-human perspectives.
Culminating from close investigations of the physical and sonic environments generated by water bodies in Lisbon, Huijun’s works examine water’s many roles in the urban landscape. Simultaneously an ornamental fluid, a life-sustaining medium and an industrial conduit, water is a powerful activator of space and place. Employing listening as a tool to consider how nature and technology coalesce in our surroundings, Huijun collected extensive field recordings which serve as both source material and inspiration for the resulting interactive, kinetic and video works.
Alongside these, an ongoing series of fish portraits give a personality and voice to the Portuguese sea creatures Rosalynn has explored during her stay in Lisbon. The reflective surfaces depicted in the paintings refer to the interconnectedness between the human body and water. Layered upon these works are many facets of Hydrofeminist thinking which emphasises a radical collectivity – if we are all bodies of water, then we are all connected to the watery planet.
Placed in conversation, the works invite viewers to consider what we can learn from water and how we can embody this in our relationship with the natural world.
The exhibition is complemented by an encounter with the artists (February 27th at 6 PM), and the release of a limited edition risograph poster created in collaboration with Zaratan.
BIOGRAPHIES:
HUIJUN LU works at the intersections of art, music, engineering and computing. Their practice culminates in kinetic installations, sculptures, moving images and soundscapes. Consistent in the works are mechanisms and circuits that the artist devises and builds to examine the function and utility of objects, observations about the unnoticed in our environments, as well as technology’s role in mediating our relationship with our surroundings. Lu's solo exhibitions include approximations (dblspce, 2023) and loop / pool (The Esplanade, 2022). The artist participated in numerous group shows in Singapore and Europe, including Hope you are keeping well! (Objectifs, 2025), When Sediment Sinks (Art Outreach, 2024) and Internationales Digitalkunst Festival (Stuttgart, 2023). Most recently, Lu was artist-in-residence at the Singapore Art Museum from April to September 2024. During the residency, the artist will further their research on the convergences and parallels between technological and natural processes, as well as what the natural environment can teach us about our interactions with technology. | https://www.huijunlu.com/
ROSALYNN VAN HUMMEL (1993) lives and works in Utrecht, the Netherlands, where she graduated at the HKU and got her bachelor degree in Fine Arts. Her work focuses on the female body, to capture and portray its beauty and inner strength. This power and beauty is often misrepresented in the media and in our vast art history mostly made by and seen from the male gaze. Rosalynn makes her works from the female gaze, depicting female pleasure within the naked body. In recent work she delves into the connection between the feminine and water, exploring the concepts of Hydrofeminism. Her paintings contain interesting combinations of naked bodies and fish. The fish are wet, slippery, slick, shiny, smooth and a bit nasty (in a nice way). But there is a same kind of tactility and sensuality as it comes to some of the parts of the female body. Putting them together brings forth a strange but enticing image. She often uses wild brushstrokes and bright, vibrant colors to create the bodies and fish, which evokes a sense of fluidity and movement. By using these images, she aims to convey the sense of mystery and power that is often associated with the ocean and try to connect it with the female body and its sexual strength. While also drawing attention to the ways in which our relationship with water and our bodies is complicated. Rosalynn has exhibited in various places both in the Netherlands and abroad. In 2020, she was awarded the Young Talent Contribution by the Mondriaan Fund. | https://www.rosalynnvanhummel.nl/