Baopu·FELT is a nonprofit art space based in Kaili, Guizhou, centered on artist residencies, research, exhibitions, and publishing. It is dedicated to fostering interdisciplinary artistic practices rooted in the folk cultures, intangible heritage, and local ecologies of Southwest China.
抱朴·FELT 是一个位于贵州凯里的非营利艺术空间，以艺术驻留和研究、展览与出版为核心，致力于推动根植中国西南民间文化、非遗技艺、本地生态的跨学科艺术实践。
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09/2026-ongoing
Thematic Season: The Shape of Language Season II
主题季：语言的形状第二季
抱朴·FELT X 独庸洞穴
Baopu·FELT × Duyong Cave
在延续第一季对中国西南语言、文字系统、口述传统与地方知识实践关注的基础上，本季进一步将“作者性”作为进入田野与实践关系的重要问题：当一种地方经验进入作品、研究、档案与展览，观看、选择、翻译、命名与误读始终参与其中，那个无法被完全取消的“我”，究竟如何影响知识与作品的生成？
围绕这一问题，第二季引入“艺术家 × 研究者”的同行匹配机制，让不同学科、方法与个人经验进入同一片田野，在共同工作中彼此摩擦、相互渗透、彼此回应，也既有的方法、知识位置有机会暴露边界、发生偏移、重新调整。
Building on the first season’s exploration of language, writing systems, oral traditions, and local knowledge practices in Southwest China, Season II places authorship at the centre of its engagement with fieldwork and artistic practice. When local experiences enter artworks, research, archives, and exhibitions, acts of observation, selection, translation, naming, and misinterpretation inevitably shape their representation. How does the “I” that can never be fully removed influence the production of knowledge and artistic work?
To explore this question, Season II introduces an Artist × Researcher peer-matching model, bringing together different disciplines, methodologies, and personal experiences within a shared field of inquiry. Through collaborative work, participants are encouraged to challenge, influence, and respond to one another, allowing established methods and positions of knowledge to reveal their limits, shift, and be reconfigured.
Participants in Residence | 驻地成员
Penny Yiou Peng 彭忆欧
Yuhang Li 李雨航
Yixiang Li 李毅翔（李盲）
Yutong Lin 林禹彤
Liu 老刘
Regina Rongyi Liu 榕熠
Regine Steenbock
Observer | 观察员
Yun Qin Wang 王韵沁
Shuman Wang 王姝曼
09/01/2025-08/01/2026
Thematic Season: The Shape of Language Season I
主题季：语言的形状 第一季
The Shape of Language explores the writing systems, oral traditions, and linguistic practices of Southwest China, examining how language shapes cultural memory, identity, and local knowledge. Bringing together artists, researchers, and practitioners across disciplines, the season unfolds through artist residencies, online talks and dialogues, exhibitions, and peer-learning retreat.
「语言的形状」聚焦中国西南地区多民族文化中的文字系统、口述传统与语言实践，探索语言如何承载文化记忆、塑造身份认同与地方知识。主题季汇集不同学科的艺术家、研究者与实践者，通过艺术驻地、线上分享与对谈、展览、共处计划等形式展开探索与交流。
Programs | 项目构成
Artist & Research Residencies｜艺术与研究驻地
Online Talks & Dialogues｜线上分享与对谈
Residency Exhibition｜驻地展览
Peer-learning Retreat ｜共处计划
Participants | 参与成员
Artists in Residence｜驻地艺术家
heeh (Huiqi He & Tianding He)｜heeh（何卉奇、贺天丁）
Xurui Xu｜徐旭睿
Ruosi Huang｜黄若思
Sanhuang Xu｜许三煌
Curator in Residence｜驻地策展人
Binghuang Xu｜许冰煌
Researcher in Residence｜驻地研究员
Xinyi Li｜李心怡
06/28/2025-08/16/2025
Yelang Writes Back
逆写夜郎
Artists: Yiqing Chen, Shuni Liang, Chongyan Liu, Qile Sun, Funa Ye, Guo Yu, Ran Zhou
参展艺术家：陈益青 梁姝妮 刘重燕 孙其乐 叶甫纳 余果 周然
Curator: Jiawen Li
策展人：李嘉文
Long marginalised in historical narratives centred on China’s Central Plains, Guizhou has often been reduced to stereotypes that obscure its complex histories and local experiences. Bringing together works by seven artists across painting, moving image, photography, textiles, and installation, alongside local textile traditions, the exhibition re-examines Guizhou’s historical narratives and cultural agency through three perspectives: its contemporary realities, historical memory, and connections with neighbouring regions.
Yelang Writes Back challenges established narratives and creates space for overlooked voices and experiences, reconsidering the relationships between centre and periphery, past and present.
贵州长期处于以中原为中心的历史叙事边缘，「夜郎自大」「穷山恶水」等固有印象，也在不断简化和遮蔽这片土地复杂的历史与地方经验。展览试图重新审视其历史叙事与文化主体性。展览汇集七位艺术家的绘画、影像、摄影、纺织与装置作品，并结合地方纺织文化材料，沿着贵州的当代现实、历史记忆及其与周边地区的联系三条线索，呈现多元的地方知识、个体经验与文化实践。
「逆写」既是对既有叙事的重新审视，也试图为那些长期被忽略的声音与经验打开新的表达空间，由此重新思考地方与中心、历史与当代之间的关系。
04/04/2025-04/05/2025
BAOPU Interdisciplinary Artist Experiment Program
抱朴跨学科艺术家实验计划
NOWHERE: Bangbang Solo Exhibition
无有乡
·帮帮
Drawing on childhood memories of industrial slaughterhouses and the sacrificial rituals of Guizhou’s Miao Guzang Festival, artist Bangbang explores the complex relationships between slaughter, sacrifice, and belief. Marking her transition from fashion photography to contemporary art, the exhibition combines photography, moving image, installation, and AI-generated imagery to weave together fieldwork, cultural symbols, and speculative narratives. Juxtaposing industrial slaughter with ritual sacrifice, it questions how violence, spirituality, consumption, and belief shape our understanding of life and death.
从童年记忆中的工业屠宰场，到贵州苗族鼓藏节中的祭祀仪式，艺术家帮帮以两种截然不同的死亡经验为起点，探讨屠宰、牺牲与信仰之间的复杂关系。作为从时尚摄影转向当代艺术创作的一次尝试，展览结合摄影、影像、装置与AI生成图像，将田野记录、文化符号与虚构叙事交织，重构介于现实与超现实之间的仪式景观。通过并置工业化生产与传统祭祀中对生命的不同理解，展览重新审视暴力与神圣、消费与信仰之间的关系，以及现代社会如何赋予死亡不同的意义。
*The series of works created by Bangbang during her residency is represented by Baopu·FELT.
帮帮在驻地期间创作的系列作品由抱朴·FELT 代理。
02/08/2024-25/09/2024
DRAGONS IN MY HEART: A CO-CREATION LAB
见龙在心：龙纹共创实验坊
Curator: Yubing Guo
策展人：国瑜冰
This workshop is curated by Yubing Guo during her stay at the Baopu Residency. It explores the manifestation, transmission, and evolution of dragon patterns—a unique cultural symbol in the traditional Chinese context—within the cultures of southwestern ethnic minorities, and their contemporaneity. This project presents a comprehensive view through traditional dragon-patterned attire from various eras, academic research, multi-perspective interview videos, and interactive offline workshops.
本期实验坊由策展人国瑜冰在抱朴驻地期间策划。该项目意在探索龙纹这一传统中国语境下的特殊文化符号在西南少数民族文化中的体现、流传、和变化，以及如今启发出的当代性。实验坊以不同年代龙纹的传统服饰展品、学术调研、多视角采访影像、以及线下互动workshop的形式综合呈现。
07/2024 Exhibition Review
Yubing Guo: "I'm Not Sure if the Cattle Can Easily Adapt to Diesel" - BLUEPRINT Exhibition Review
国瑜冰：“我不确定牛是否能轻易适应柴油机”
——《蓝图》展评
In early June, at the beginning of midsummer, an exhibition titled "Blueprint" by the artist Jiang Jiang opened at the Baopu Space in Kaili, the capital of southeastern Guizhou. This exhibition explores the dissonance and interweaving between cultural loss and technological advancement.
The air is always filled with moisture, and the windows of the exhibition hall reveal the grey walls of the courtyard. Green moss spots the bricks, and banana trees along with unidentified climbing plants fill the black window frames. The atmosphere is stuffy, humid, and low-pressure, with leaky pipes, cool beer, and a faintly restless mood. The subtropical monsoon climate evokes a sense of nostalgia that is hard to distinguish between reality and illusion.
六月仲夏伊始，黔东南首府凯里，艺术家姜姜题为“蓝图”的个展在抱朴空间开幕，探索着文化失落与技术进步之间的错位与交织。空气中总是水汽袅袅，展厅的几扇窗户透出灰蒙蒙的院墙，绿色苔藓斑驳了砖石，芭蕉伴着叫不上名字的爬藤植物，填充着黑色的窗框。闷热，潮湿，低气压，拧不紧的水管，凉涔涔的啤酒，隐隐躁动的心绪，亚热带的湿润季风气侯唤起怀旧情绪，说不清其中有几分真假。
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09/06/2024-15/07/2024
BLUEPRINT
Yunshan Jiang Solo Exhibition
蓝图——姜蕴珊个人展
“Do you need to go to LA?
你需要去洛杉矶吗？
Love?
爱？
Oh, you did!
哦，你需要！
Those are dreams about.
那些都是梦
She's binging Google, Windows, and a pesma. Soon a…
她在搜索谷歌，微软和pesma，很快一个…
does it change?
它会改变吗？”
When AI transcribes the audio of the Ge Jia preachers into English, the language transforms into an absurd poem or a fable.
当AI将革家传教的音频听写成英文，语言就变成令人啼笑皆非的诗，又或寓言。
These layers of cultural misinterpretation form the peak of absurdity in "BLUEPRINT: Yunshan Jiang's Solo Exhibition."
文化之间的这般多层误读，构成了“蓝图：姜蕴珊个人展”荒诞的顶点。
09/06/2024-15/07/2024
PATTERN AS MEDIUM:
Batik Collections from the Baopu Studio
纹以载道：抱朴蜡染主题展
The exhibition brings together traditional batik textiles from diverse ethnic communities in Southwest China, exploring the cultural memories, aesthetic languages, and beliefs embedded in their patterns. Through stitching, patchwork, suspension, and spatial arrangements, it moves beyond conventional classifications by region and ethnicity, bringing historical textiles into dialogue with everyday spaces and experiences.
Guided by the ideas of “Deconstruction, Return to Everyday Life, and Re-creation,” the exhibition explores new relationships between traditional textiles, space, the body, and contemporary life, reconsidering how folk crafts are displayed and carried forward.
展览汇集中国西南地区多个民族与支系的传统蜡染作品，探索纹样背后的文化记忆、审美语言与生命观念。通过手缝、拼接、悬挂与场景重构，展览打破以地域和族群分类的传统展示方式，让历经岁月的蜡染重新进入日常生活的空间与感知之中。以「解构、回归日常、再创造」为线索，展览尝试拓展传统织物与空间、身体及当代生活之间的关系，重新思考民间工艺的展示与延续方式。