Def-i-n-i-tion: Mid-night marks the begin-ning and end of each civ-il day around the world. As the point of divi-sion between one day and anoth-er, mid-night is not eas-i-ly clas-si-fied as part of the day before or the day after. Although there is no glob-al con-sen-sus on this issue, mid-night is usu-al-ly con-sid-ered the begin-ning of a new day, asso-ci-at-ed with the hour 00:00.

——文字来源于《维基百科》The text is from Wikipedia

　　我有很多次在午夜乘坐飞机的经历，飞机的轰鸣声让我会进入一种似醒非醒的状态。

　　午夜所呈现出来的模糊和矛盾与我近期的作品较为吻合：画面指向性越来越不明显。就像今年普利兹克奖的建筑师所传达的“更少的建筑”理念一样，我在尝试的是“更少的绘画”，即在可控的方法中寻找不可控的图示。

　　这次展览的作品都是围绕时间的线索展开，尝试探索作品中一种模糊时间的概念。

Many times I’ve been on a plane in the mid-dle of the night, and the roar of the plane has sent me into a kind of half-awake sta-tus.

The ambi-gu-i-ties and con-tra-dic-tions pre-sent-ed by mid-night are con-sis-tent with my recent works: The direc-tiv-i-ty of the work is less and less obvi-ous. Like the archi-tects who award-ed this year’s Pritzk-er Prize deliv-ered the idea of “less archi-tec-ture,” what I’m try-ing to do is “less draw-ing,” which is to look for uncon-trol-lable images in a con-trolled way.

The works in this exhi-bi-tion are all about the clues of time, try-ing to explore the vague con-cept of time in the works.

——刘聪 Liu Cong

　　开幕当天同时会发布由fRUITY-PRESS 出版的两本刘聪的独立出版物-《NEW PORTRAITS》和《POLAR DAY》敬请期待。

刘聪|Liu Cong

　　1988年生于辽宁大连，现工作生活于北京。他的作品涉及多种绘画媒介和形式，他不拘泥于单一的绘画表达，而更关注绘画方法的建立，以及不同媒介之间的相互关系。他把自己的创作过程比喻为在城市中漫步，在体力消耗的同时总能发现一些有意思的画面，从而寻找边界和打破边界。

　　近期个展包括：

　　“午夜” 妙有艺术，北京(2021);“洛克群岛” 妙有艺术，北京(2020);“临时的，暂时的;短暂的” 盘子空间，北京(2019);“寂寞的影子”，丽禾艺术空间，深圳(2019);更衣室，fRUITSPACE，北京(2019);“自由餐厅”，Link画廊，北京(2019);“平视”，艺术方位画廊，深圳(2018);“乡村垂钓俱乐部”， fRUITSPACE，北京(2017)。

　　主要群展包括：“碧潭” 妙有艺术，北京(2021);“飘” 艾格维画廊，纽约，美国(2018);“Art Cen-tral 2018”，中环海滨,香港(2018);“感动的前提”，Link画廊，北京(2017);“睛彩联合国国际艺术展”，联合国，纽约，美国(2017);“花园里的展览”，L?Space,北京(2017);“纸藏“，Link画廊，北京(2017);“约翰莫尔绘画大赛(中国)”上海喜马拉雅美术馆，上海(2014);南京国际美术展，南京国际博览中心，南京(2014)。

Liu Cong

Born in 1988 in Dalian, Liaon-ing Province, now lives and works in Bei-jing. Liu Con-g’s works involve a vari-ety of paint-ing media and forms. He does not stick to a sin-gle paint-ing expres-sion, but pays more atten-tion to the estab-lish-ment of paint-ing meth-ods and the rela-tion-ship between dif-fer-ent media. He likens his cre-ative process to walk-ing in a city, find-ing inter-est-ing images while phys-i-cal-ly expend-ing, to find and break bound-aries.

Recent Solo exhi-bi-tion include:

“Mid-night”， MOUart, Beijing(2021); “Rock islands”， MOUart, Beijing(2020); “Tem-po-rary”， PLATESPACE, Beijing(2019); “Lone-ly shado”,Lia Art-Space, Shenzhen(2019); “Chang-ing room”，fRUITSPACE, Beijing(2019); “T? Do Restau-rant”, Link Gallery, Beijing(2018); “Par-al-lel Sight”, J&Z Gallery, Shenzhen(2018); “Coun-try Fish-ing Club”, fRUIT-SPACE, Beijing(2017). Major group exhi-bi-tion include：“Green Lake”，MOUart, Beijing(2021); “Drift-float”,Elga Wim-mer pcc, New York, USA(2018);”Art Cen-tral 2018”, Cen-tral Harborfront，Hong Kong(2018); “Touched by the premise”, Link Gallery, Beijing(2017); “Eye-art inter-na-tion-al exhi-bi-tion at the Unit-ed Nations”, Unit-ed Nations, New York, USA(2017); “Gar-den of the exhi-bi-tion”, L?Space, Beijing(2017); “Paper-work col-lec-tion”, Link Gallery, Beijing(2017); “John Moore Paint-ing Com-pe-ti-tion (Chi-na)”, Shang-hai Himalayan Art Muse-um, Shanghai(2014); “Nan-jing Inter-na-tion-al Art Exhi-bi-tion”, Nan-jing Inter-na-tion-al Expo Cen-ter, Nanjing(2014).

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