Rusty memory
Brook Yanlin, as a person who pursues self-independence, puts himself in the midst of the masses and collides with the real society and the fantasy world. In these nostalgic, slightly sad and sensitive emotions in his works, there is a feeling of "helplessness and sigh" in the atmosphere he creates, but it reveals his deepest interrogation of memory. Under the background of this era shrouded by the epidemic, the audience has to rethink the direction.
In 2021, Yanlin received attention for the first time with the series summarized by" Egoist Fantasy". Subsequent series have explored topics ranging from "war" to "reality criticism" to "Far away," each of which relates to his personal experiences and reflections.
This exhibition "Rust Memory" only includes Yanlin's first conceptual work of thinking about self-memory, without any other easel paintings. It is a unique and important artistic technique of Yanlin not to create in the unit of series at the beginning. "I always create when I feel, and depression when I don't feel. After the depression, I summarize my past works, "He said.
Yanlin is first and foremost an artist, and his thinking is a painter who uses "uncontrollable factors" to create. Although loneliness and alienation can be seen everywhere in his images, the most important thing in his creative technique is a kind of randomness; He always wanted to break away from some traditional constraints and go his own way. Looking closely at these installations and images, we can see how carefully he examines his relationship with his subjects.
Yanlin's video work "Rusty Tree" was created after a year-long silence. During that year, He repeatedly recalled and pursued a question: "Why did I create those works?" or "What was the significance of my previous actions?" In this exhibition, his discussion and reflection on self-memory will be gradually revealed through his works in photography, installation, video and easel painting.
