POLYPHONY OF FORMS 

流动的复调




FRAW is a select shop exclusively for women in Shanghai. Siwei was in charge of the exhibition’s concept, theme, statement, and social media content. Additionally, she sat down with this exhibition’s four artists, discussing their creative processes for their artworks and personal experiences as women, and developed all the interviews into a special editorial series.


It was FRAW’s first exhibition, celebrating International Women’s Day. As a shop exclusively for women, FRAW is inspired by women and also inspires women. It’s an exhibition about how FRAW explores materials, appreciate craftsmanship, shape the creativity, and how we’re expressing ourselves as ‘STRONG WOMEN’.


这是 FRAW 策划的第一场展览。FRAW 从女性身上获得启迪,也提供为女性设计的产品。我们在购物袋上所写的“STRONG WOMEN NEED STRONG CLOTHES”唤起了许多人的共鸣,但因此也有人发出疑问,何为 STRONG WOMEN?

我们邀请了两位驻居上海,及两位分别来自英国东萨塞克斯和日本大阪的女性艺术家,以并不乏见的材料与工艺,塑造具象的“形”与抽象的情感及记忆。织物捕捉的空气、停留在面料之上的光、宣纸上的岩石与云……流动是这些作品的共性,在东方与西方之间,在经纱与纬纱之交,在看得见与看不见之际,在线与形之上,又在形与空间之内。这些作品使用不同的媒介,流动向不同的终点,但又彼此牵引。我们相信,她们与她们的创作,便是我们对于“何为 STRONG WOMEN”的回答。

*复调,由两个或两个以上在艺术上具有同等意义的各自独立的曲调,按照对位法则结合在一起,同时协调进行的多声部音乐。


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《流动的复调 1F | 在宣纸的约束里,想象生长的形态》
《流动的复调 2F | 每一面都是正面的织物》
《流动的复调 3F | 只做巴掌大的“小人物”雕塑》
《流动的复调 4F |用绞缬捕捉转瞬即逝的空气与泡沫》