Lin Tianmiao
Lin Tianmiao
Born in 1961
2006 Asian Contemporary Art in Print in Celebration of Asia Society's 50th Anniversary, Asia Society and Museum, New York, USA
Martell Artist of the Year 2006, National Gallery of China, Beijing, China
2007 Multiplex: Direction in Art, 1970 to Now, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Global Feminism, Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA
Focus on Paper, Singapore Tyler Print Institute, Singapore
2008 Half Life of a Dream: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Logan Collection Group, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco USA
Our Future: The Guy & Myriam Ullens Foundation Collection, UCCA, Beijing,
Mother’s!!!, Long March Space, Beijing, China
2009 The State of Things-Brussels/Beijing, Centre for Fine Art, Brussels, Belgium
2010 Audi A5 Popcorn-The art of Lin Tianmiao, Audi Art Design Award Opening, Beijing, China
2011 The Same, Beijing Center for the Arts, Beijing, China
2012 Badges, Galerie Lelong, New York, USA
Lin Tianmiao: Bound Unbound, Asia Society Museum, New York, USA
2013 Lin Tianmiao, Galerie Lelong, Paris, France
Animate/Inanimate(working title), TarraWarra Museum of Art, Victoria, Australia
2013 California-Pacific Triennial, Orange County Museum of Art, California, USA
Chatting
There are fundamental differences between the ways women communicate with each other and men communicate with men. Communication among men shows more of their logical thinking and sociality while communication between women reveals more of their pure intuition and animal instinct. Middle aged female bodies carry much richer connotations which can avoid direct connections with young woman's sexuality.
I am trying to remove all the identity traits of these female bodies except for their basic features as living beings, leaving them to communicate via pure sounds and not in words. The arc-shaped high wall behind them stresses the type of privacy that enshrouds women's unique style of communication.
Of More or Less the Same:
Tools possess their original functions and properties; maybe they also have the same quality of “being alive” just like human beings, or animals. When crafted with bones, their functions and properties are re-constructed and thence the new values are suggested.