‘If there is strong wind tomorrow’, MartinGoyaBusiness, Shanghai

"If there is a gale tomorrow night, where will we be blown to?

 

The wind, like a signal, blows to different environments and sends different messages.

 

The wind is a companion to rain, sleet and snow, a sign of the changing seasons, and the various winds are the medium for various transmissions, just as they signal the strength of 'readiness', no matter what the weather, good or bad.

 

The wind is also the premeditation of consumerism, the migratory fusion of different cultures.

 

And in the over-purified urban consumer life, buildings seem to be ancient ritual poles, totems bound by reality in the wind and shaped into low aesthetic behemoths. Time and again, in the repetitive rhythm of the convergence of currents and monsoons, people are erased from their original identities in a vacuum of sameness, and they inevitably become nostalgic for the "new" past and fantasise about the "old" future.

 

The wind does not stop and neither does the migration. The cultural cracks that loosen up give new space to the "old" future, allowing the eyes behind the sunglasses to see the unknown behind the apparent world, to complete the mystery of the self, to feel at will the "transcendental land" of freedom and diversity, although it takes waiting and time. It takes time.

 

If there is a gale tomorrow night, where will we be blown, in an empty living room alone, or dancing in a club, but either way, we will get through the night ......"

---- Gao Yingpu

 

 

The second edition of THE BASEMENT will continue with the improvisation salon, curating artist Ko Young-Poo's solo project "If the Wind Blows Tomorrow Night", featuring his latest series of paintings and sculptures inspired by urban buildings, created in the style of club culture and games, to recreate the atmosphere of a vintage disco.