-BAOPU Interdisciplinary Artist Experiment Program-
NOWHERE -
Bangbang solo exhibition
Exhibition Dates: 04/04/2025-04/05/2025
Opening：04/04/2025 Fri 6:30pm
Address: Baopu Art Space, Building No.11, Former Medical School, Kaili, Guizhou, China
Curator: Yunshan Jiang
Producer: Dan Hong, Ran Zhou
Statement
Bang Bang’s childhood was steeped in the sounds and odors of the slaughterhouse: the dull thud of blades sinking into flesh, conveyor belts carrying languid carcasses, her mother’s Buddhist sutras for the dead blaring over machinery’s roar—a dissonant symphony of modern survival. Yet during the Guizhou Miao people’s Guzang Festival, she witnessed ritualized slaughter transfigured: in their thirteen-year ancestral rites, death wove itself into mythic tapestries, blood became hieroglyphs bridging mortals and deities, suspended ox heads turned into sacred glyphs. The intersection of the two realities ignited a haunting inquiry—when humans confront life and death through divergent prisms, does killing manifest as crude violence or sacred inevitability?
Once a photographer sculpting fantasies of corporeal desire for fashion’s glittering machine, Bang Bang now navigates realms where body intersects with the divine—a shift not merely in artistic direction, but a profound meditation on sacrifice, faith, and modes of existence. Her solo exhibition Nowhere marks this metamorphosis. Through experimental hybrids of photography, video, and installation, she dissects the tangled arteries connecting sacrifice, faith, and industrialized carnage. Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork and archival records, she reimagines ritualistic imagery through fictional narratives, ultimately sketching a speculative vision of future ceremonial landscapes.
The exhibition’s title, Nowhere, dissolves boundaries between tangible and mythic. Bang Bang mixes tribal embroideries with cyberpunk aesthetics, reconfigures sacrificial bridges and cave burials through AI-generated dreamscapes, juxtaposes temple incense with slaughterhouse disinfectant. Her lens wears romance like a subversive mask: beneath ceremonial splendor lurks power dynamics (who assigns “value” to sacrificial lives?), while beneath clinical meat-packing plants hums existential silence (who consumes these anonymized bodies?). Seemingly disparate acts of killing mirror each other as fractured reflections of civilization’s disquiet.
The exhibition pulsates with visceral paradoxes: humanity ritualizes death to exorcise chaos, yet reduces living beings to spreadsheet integers to sustain modernity’s illusions. A child of slaughterhouses, Bang Bang dissects society’s numbed pain receptors; a veteran image-merchant, she betrays consumerism’s saccharine visual lexicon. This confrontational narrative challenges not merely how we see, but compels reckoning with civilization’s unspoken contracts—how faith sanctifies violence, how ritual masks complicity. Her camera lingers in liminal spaces: when Buddhist chants overlay killing floors, when Miao drum skins glisten with sacrificial blood, might slaughter and redemption share clandestine kinship?
Nowhere transcends mortality’s theater to map humanity’s spiritual cartographies. This migration from fashion to art constitutes an autopsy of lived experience: supermarket vacuum-sealed steaks, viral environmental hashtags, ecstatic ritual dances, temple incense coils—each rebranded fragment of existence coalesces into new cosmologies. We are all citizens of this Nowhereland.
Styling：CalvinCheong
Makeup：Thirteen
Model：Shanjiao、Peipei、Lin、Feifei、Sprite、Shen
Process recording：Faye
Frames: Rigards
Clothes：AWR
Gloves, Clothes: Xochiquetzal
Studded Faux Leather Skirt: fabric qorn
3D Printed Shoes : SCRY
Special thanks to Chiu Chiu.
无有乡·帮帮
展览时间：04/04/2025-04/05/2025
开幕式：04/04/2025 周五 6:30pm
地点：抱朴艺术空间
地址：贵州凯里市老卫校11号楼 （红洲路与环城东路交叉口东南200米）
策展人：姜蕴珊
出品人：洪旦 周然
展言
帮帮的童年浸润在屠宰场的声音与气息中：工人挥刀落下的闷响、传送带上缓缓移动的肉体、母亲在机器轰鸣中播放的超度经文，交织成一幅现代生存的日常景象。而在贵州苗族的鼓藏节，她见证了另一种’屠宰’的仪式：十三年一度的祭祖典礼中，死亡被编织进史诗，鲜血成为连接人神的象征，牛首高悬，如同神圣的符号。这两种场景的交汇，触发了一个耐人寻味的思考——当人类以不同的方式面对生死，杀戮究竟是暴力的展现，还是信仰中的必然？
作为长期游走于时尚工业前沿的摄影师，帮帮曾以镜头雕琢人体的曲线与物质欲望的视觉叙事，如今，她转身踏进血肉与神性共存的复杂世界——这不仅是一次创作上的转向，更是一场关于祭祀、信仰与生存方式的深层思考。本次个展《无有乡》是她从时尚摄影转向艺术创作的尝试。在多年的影像实践中，她始终关注身体、符号与视觉文化，而此次，她以更具实验性的方式，结合摄影、影像与装置，探讨屠宰、牺牲与信仰之间的复杂关系。她的创作从田野调查的记录出发，融合真实的档案资料，并在虚构叙事中重新构建仪式的意象，最终勾勒出对未来祭祀场景的想象。
展览以“无有乡”为名，刻意模糊了现实与超现实的分野。帮帮将民族传统服饰、时装配件、自然神灵与未来都市重构；糅合牲畜、祭桥、洞葬、蝶母与寺庙，以AI演绎未来信仰的解构边界。她的创作戴着浪漫的面具，同时拒绝浪漫化任何一方：神圣祭祀中的权力隐喻（谁在决定牺牲的“价值”？），与工业化屠宰中生命消逝的绝对沉默（谁在消费被抹去面孔的肉体？），这些看似不相干的景象，在她的镜头下暴露出相似的文明裂痕。
本场展览复现了帮帮影像中的矛盾张力和悖论：人类既需要通过仪式赋予死亡意义，以安抚对无序的恐惧；又必须将死亡压缩为流水线数据，以维持现代生活的效率幻象。 她是屠宰场长大的孩子，却用镜头撕开现代人精心伪装的痛觉神经；她是时尚体系的资深玩家，却以这场展览背叛了消费主义的视觉糖衣。这种对抗性叙事，不仅挑战着我们观看的方式，也迫使我们重新思考，牺牲与信仰、暴力与仪式究竟构成了一种怎样的文明共谋。帮帮的镜头始终凝视着那个悬而未决的灰色地带——当她的母亲在屠宰车间按下佛经播放键的瞬间，当苗族人将牛血涂抹于鼓面的时刻，杀戮与救赎是否在某个维度达成了荒诞的和解？
《无有乡》不仅关乎生死的呈现，更是一场对仪式、信仰与人类精神世界的探寻。这场从时尚到艺术的跨界，本质上是一种对日常经验的重新审视：当我们在超市挑选真空包装的牛排，在社交媒体上转发环保口号，在仪式中歌舞，在寺庙祈福……现代文明赋予事物全新的秩序和意义，而那些被重塑、被再定义的生命轨迹，也悄然编织成我们的世界。我们每个人，都是‘无有乡’的一部分。
搭配：CalvinCheong
化妆：十三
模特：山椒、Peipei、小林、妃妃、雪碧、阿琛
花絮记录：Faye
Frames: Rigards
Clothes：AWR
Gloves, Clothes: Xochiquetzal
Studded Faux Leather Skirt: fabric qorn
3D Printed Shoes : SCRY
Special thanks to Chiu Chiu.
About the Artist
Bangbang is a photographer who currently resides in Hangzhou. In 2014, she founded "Bangbang Studio" and has since collaborated with numerous prestigious brands both nationally and internationally.
Raised with a background in traditional Chinese painting, she later shifted her focus to oil painting and is now engaged in photography. For Bangbang, the immediacy and covert temporality conveyed by the medium hold more appeal than the process of layering. Influenced by Meng Jinghui's "Rhinoceros in Love," her photographic work attempts to create a theatrical sensory experience in a flat medium, using changes in lighting and environment to create drama and capture the subtle tension between the complexity and authenticity, serenity and turbulence of individuals.
Bangbang's work consistently addresses women's issues, but she maintains a dialectical stance on presenting specific viewpoints through frameworks. Her creative interests are focused on the portrayal of women in religious beliefs and historical conflicts, as she believes in the inherent mystery and power that women embody. In her work, she also excels at crafting androgynous female figures. The representation and significance of androgyny are in a state of flux, ranging from classical mythology to medicine, and extending into literature, sexology, psychoanalysis, sociology, and feminism, varying according to its function within specific contexts. By blending and reinterpreting female imagery and narratives, Bangbang uses photography to respond to Judith Butler's concepts of performativity and gender nonconformity—it can manifest as a perception, a pathology, a symptom of suppressed desire, a generalized sexual embodiment, or perhaps a positive fantasy of the harmonious coexistence of masculine and feminine traits within a single entity.
关于艺术家：
帮帮是一位摄影师，现居杭州，2014年成立「帮帮工作室」，已与国内外众多知名品牌合作签约。自小修习国画，后转油画，如今从事摄影，于帮帮而言，相比堆叠的过程，她更有感于媒介所传递的即时性和隐秘的时间性。帮帮的摄影创作受到孟京辉《恋爱的犀牛》的影响，试图以平面的方式去创造话剧式的感官体验，通过光线和环境的变化制造戏剧性，以记录人物复杂与真实、平静与汹涌之间的隐秘张力。
帮帮的创作始终关注女性话题，但她对于借助框架给出具体观点持辩证的态度。帮帮的创作兴趣聚焦于宗教信仰与历史战争中的女性形象，她相信女性本身所育有的神秘和力量感。在创作中，她也善于塑造一种雌雄同体特征的女性存在。从古典神话到医学，再延伸到文学、性学、精神分析、社会学和女性主义领域，雌雄同体的代表性和意义处于不断变化中，并因其在特定框架中的功能而有所不同。而通过对女性形象和女性故事的揉杂和再解读，帮帮以摄影为媒介去回应朱迪思巴特勒笔下的拟态和性别不服从——它可以是：一种感知、一种病理、一种压抑欲望的症状、一种泛化性向的化身、又或者一种积极的男性和女性属性在单一个体中和谐共存的行为幻想。
在抱朴驻地期间，帮帮将联合知名造型师与化妆师，组织国内外数十位知名模特，以共创模式去探索西南少数民族的服饰文化，并进一步对服饰、人像与风景的反传统交融进行大胆试验。她希望将来自世界不同地域的版图记忆通过共性的穿着形成串联，以探索跨时空的新本土美学和原始主义想象。