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Peripheries is a group show featuring international artists from Indonesia, China and the UK all concerned with representing and investigating aspects of Asia. Social structures relayed through the artists practice relay the edges and margins of place, from the liminal to the peripheral, to the memories and traces of the passage of culture and identity within. The works exhibited explore this through themes of displacement, migration, land rights, relationship and religion in a series of works that include Kampong street art, Indonesian pulp literature, fireflies, performative action, photography and installation.

Chinese artists Dinu Li and Xinyi Lui explore political structures and protest within their work, with Mintio & Kabul in their first collaboration and UK showing casting processes and illuminate historical and cultural with Indonesian religious icons lit by fireflies in the search for the ephemeral. While Bambang ‘Toko’ Witjaksono appropriates the local through his use of graphic form, comic strip approaches to play with social narratives in a parodic series of prints.

Joe Duffy’s video installations reveal displacement and migration from volcanic eruptions to landfill sites in a body of work that abstracts narratives and journeys from communities around the big Durian of Jakarta.

Exhibiting artists include, Mintio & Kabul, Bambang ‘Toko’ Witjaksono (Indonesia) Xinyi Liu, Dinu Li, Tianzhuo Chen, Funa Ye (China) Joe Duffy, Carl Jaycock (UK).

Co-curated by Joe Duffy and Tongyu Zhou, MIRIAD, Manchester Metropolitan University.

4 Piccadilly Place, M1 3BN

Tel: +44 07985 623786
www.peripheries.co.uk

Opening times
Weekdays: 10am–6pm
Saturday: 10am–5pm
Sunday: 10am -5pm

Painting (2007-2009)

Sculpture (2007-2009)

Drawing (2007-2009)

Video & Animation

Based on poetry《 The hunting of Snark 》by Lewis Carroll

Animation by Tianzhuo Chen

Muisc by Shenggy

“Self-consciousness”

Animation by Tianzhuo Chen

Muisc by Shenggy

8cm × 8cm × 4 Oil on panel

35cm × 35cm Ink on paper

“Untitled” Ink on paper

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“Seven deadly sins”

Dia.36cm × 1 Dia.12cm × 4 Oil on canvas

“Untitled” 60 × 60cm × 2 Oil on Canvas

“Cheese cake brain” Mix media, 60 × 60cm Oil on Canvas

“Fire horse” 100 × 100cm Oil on Canvas

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“The seven deadly sins”

Ink on paper

4 images in total

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“Merge”

digital formate

7 images in total

“Déjà vu” Digital format

” A sweet dream” Digital format

Based on the poetry by Lulu

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“fish wakes up inside”

Digital format

3 images in total

“Poison Peach” Digital format

“Playing around” Digital format

“Adult toy” Digital format

“Untitled” Digital format

© 2004-09 All Right Reserved by Tianzhuo Chen

Installation view
Porcelain, animal skull, animal teeth, protein, Kiwi fruit

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“TOTEM” (Implicit sexuality)

Silicon, plastic on wood panel with golden coating frame. Melt Dildo in liquid and pour on wood panel.

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“Untitled1” Jel-flex on canvas 30 × 20 cm

“Untitled1” Jel-flex on canvas 30 × 20 cm

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“Cactus in your garden”

Jel-flex, Plane pot, plaster and soil. (collaborate with Tzu-chia Lai)

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“Toast with honey”

Acrylic mirror, acrylic, wood, metal, toast, knife, fabric, and taxidermic bees

© 2004-09 All Right Reserved by Tianzhuo Chen

“Execution” 9 × 6 cm Oil on canvas

“A conversation between Darwin and the Lamb” 40 × 30 cm Oil on canvas

“The Baptism” 30 × 20 cm，Oil on canvas

“Lamb of God” 30 × 20 cm，Oil on canvas

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Series: “Adoration”

“The Donne Triptych” Mitteltafel 142 × 136 cm Flügel je 142 × 60 cm ×2

“Episode 1: Adoration of the Child” “Episode 2: Lamentation” 100cm × 100 cm × 2 Oil on canvas

“Untitled” 150cm × 150cm ×2 mixed media

“We are alive” 80cm × 120cm ×2 mixed media

“When a infant turns to red” 95cm × 75cm oil on canvas

© 2004-09 All Right Reserved by Tianzhuo Chen

Tianzhuo Chen & Xinyi Liu

Installation view

Photos taken from Hatch space 2011

Photographer: Tie-nan Yang

Dimension: 42 cm × 29.7 cm

01.09.2010 -05.09.2010 A.D
” (Turkish for “Hill with a potbelly”; Kurdish: Girê Navokê) is the oldest human-made place of worship yet discovered.”

The collapse of Göbekli Tepe (10.09.2010 A.D)

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Photos taken from Chelsea MA show 2010

Photographer: Vincent Cui

“Rock ‘n’ Roll Suicide”:Shark Jaws, French horn, colored concrete, jade bangle, flag, Cymbal stand, tiles, MDF and Oil painting on mirror card

“Monument”:Monkey Skull, instant noodles, colored concrete

“See the World”: 1981 Rolls Royce “Silver spirit” front windows, plastic bags, gold leaf, jade, rubber glove and oil painting on mirror card

Photos taken from Crypt gallery 2011

Photographer: Tie-nan Yang