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A Study on the Ecological Exhibition Space as the ‘In-between’: Focusing on the Moving Image Installation Works of Gao Shiqiang(team) and Liang Shaoji

  • Journal of History of Modern Art
  • 2025, 0(58), pp.283~306
  • DOI : 10.17057/kahoma.2025..58.012
  • Publisher : 현대미술사학회
  • Research Area : Arts and Kinesiology > Art > Arts in general > Art History
  • Received : October 25, 2025
  • Accepted : November 30, 2025
  • Published : December 31, 2025

Yoo Jeong-A 1

1중국 저장재경대학교

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ABSTRACT

This paper analyzes the aesthetic strategies concerning nature that Chinese artists Gao Shiqiang (team) and Liang Shaoji capture in moving image installation art, focusing on the concept of exhibition spaces as an “in-between.” Based in Shanghai and Zhejiang Province, China, the Gao Shiqiang team reinterprets the “Shanshui spirit” in the “Shanshui Action” series, guiding the audience to become beings who do not merely “view” but “wander” through the exhibition space with their bodies, dwelling in the “in-between” of heaven and earth. The dispositif strategy, borrowing from traditional Chinese media formats such as folding screens and hanging scrolls, and the camera that weaken perspective, reinforce this embodied self-reflexivity. Liang Shaoji has taken “silkworms” as creative companions for more than 30 years, exploring an eco-aesthetics based on the Buddhist “teaching of non-duality.” In Sinking Horizon, the viewer is positioned in an “in-between” space composed of silkworms, a video screen of the sea, and chain objects, and experiences a “communal body” where the distinction between subject and object is blurred. Ultimately, this paper illuminates the contemporary practice of re-establishing the relationship between humanity and nature through the analysis of moving image works that prompt reflection on nature and ecology. It is hoped that this will serve as an opportunity for us to build coexistence with others in nature’s “in-between”.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.