A Festival of Choices: Jing Jin

During A Festival of Choices, organised by the Master of Fine Art of the Sandberg Institute, de Appel welcomes Sandberg student Jing Jin (1984, Huangshi, China) in the attic space of the building. For five days, the office of the Appel Curatorial Programme will be transformed into an exhibition space, where Jin will show Reversed Alchemy, a presentation of her graduation works.

The work of Jing Jin takes on various forms. As visual and textual tentacles of her own brain concoctions and self-acclaimed logic of contrast, Jin’s videos, photography, objects and text cover a wide range of different and sometimes complementary ideas. The classic visual exploration of light/darkness makes a recurrent theme for the artist, but is undermined as a singular leitmotif by the many additional contradictions that Jin also explores in her work, such as the contrasting ideas and imagery of the poetic and the rational; the wistful and the efficient; the playful and the utterly serious.

Reversed Alchemy
Jin’s Sweet Cloud Machine is a cotton candy machine that she fabricated out of different parts of an outdated Apple computer. The idea for this work arose during the all too familiar waiting in front of a computer that gets stuck while processing information. Where we expect a Mac workstation to instantly spill out concrete and direct results, the work Sweet Cloud Machine focuses instead on the process of fabrication, and the transformation from high tech to low tech; from digital to analogue and mechanical; from binary code to the ultra-sweet fluff of cotton candy.

Sweet Cloud Machine consists of a video and the actual machine, and will be presented together with other recent work, as a completion of Jin’s two-year studies at the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam.

During A Festival of Choices, the Sandberg Master of Fine Arts students will show their graduation work in different galleries and art spaces in Amsterdam. For other locations, presentations and events, consult the website: www.festivalofchoices.nl

Opening: 11 July 6pm - 9pm
Book launch: Friday 13 July 7pm - 8pm

Opening Hours
Thursday 12 July noon - 6pm
Friday 13 July noon - 9pm
Saturday 14 July noon - 6pm
Sunday 15 July noon - 4pm