arteles_catalogue_2014

IN THE RESIDENCY
February 2014
“Quiet. Solitude. Aesthetics.”
RUITONG ZHAO
China
ruitong2014@gmail.com // www.zhaoruitong.com
I was you in the shadow of the crescent; you were him in a red
snowy day; he was her when pointing to the northern stars, and
she was me digging the knowledge of nothingness.
I love people. I love similar people because they are different. In the
24 years of my life, of which 2o years in China, matters that I see the
most is people, or “the people”. I see crowded people all the time,
but I chose to isolate each one of them. Indeed, they are actually
isolated persons, or I say they are human beings having rooms of
their own. And later, those rooms have their own personas too and
so become people.
I represent these people by a combination of photography and
fragmented writings, video and performance, and I strive on
experimenting on turning the nonfigurative, unidentified people
into three dimensional, multi-medium installations.
Quiet is delicate. Quiet and solitude together is aesthetics. It is a
moment when art is about to happen.