Dong’ergou Qikushan Goddess Church,
Jinyuan District
Taiyuan,
Shanxi Province
150 x 200 cm
2007

　　《信仰空間》
　　渠巖攝影新作展
　　開幕酒會(huì)：2008年3月9日，下午3時(shí)至6時(shí)
　　地點(diǎn)：藝術(shù)通道
　　展覽日期：2008年3月9日至3月30日
　　(星期二至星期日)11時(shí)至18時(shí)

　　RELIGION SPACE
　　New Photographic Works by Qu Yan
　　Opening：at Art Channel in Beijing
　　On Sunday, March 9th，2008，15:00 – 18:00
　　Duration：March 9th – March 30th, 2008
　　Tuesday – Sunday, 11: 00 - 18: 00

　　This new series of photographic works were taken during 2007/2008 in small villages and rural area of Shanxi and Anhui provinces. Qu Yan, maintaining his artistic way of research, recorded and expressed his feelings about activities in the countryside churches (Catholic and Christian). As spaces for religious activities, churches built in different rural areas show a wide variety of mixed styles according to local culture, personal ideas and available means. Some of them didn’t get permission from the government and are still “underground”. Qu Yan’s artworks as windows on man’s soul and society, present the sensitive conditions of religious activities in contemporary China, but also the collision between foreign and local culture.

　　這組新的攝影作品是渠巖于2007-2008年在山西、安徽兩省的鄉(xiāng)村，郊區(qū)拍攝的。他沿用了自己的藝術(shù)研究方式，記錄并表達(dá)了自己對(duì)當(dāng)前農(nóng)村的教會(huì)活動(dòng)（天主教、基督教）的情感。作為宗教活動(dòng)的舉辦地點(diǎn)—教堂，也因當(dāng)?shù)匚幕卣鳌€(gè)人情感和以各種可行的方式在各地建造著。而其中的一些教堂并沒有得到政府部門的許可，處于“地下活動(dòng)”狀態(tài)。渠巖的藝術(shù)作品正如一扇扇社會(huì)之窗和人的靈魂之窗，展現(xiàn)了當(dāng)代中國(guó)復(fù)雜、敏感的宗教狀況以及西方文化與中國(guó)當(dāng)代本土文化的碰撞

　　Art Channel 藝術(shù)通道
　　Caochangdi Village No. 249-3， East End Art Zone B， Beijing
　　北京，朝陽(yáng)區(qū)，草場(chǎng)地村249-3號(hào)，藝術(shù)東區(qū)B區(qū)
　　Tel. 64335080 / 135 2171 4691
　　E-mail: artchannelbj@sina.com
　　Webpage: www.artchannelnet.org

　　How to find your way to Art Channel?

　　Quite easy!

　　Take the Airport Expressway and get out at the Beigao Exit. Join the Jingshun Road with direction to Beijing. Turn left at the first crossing and pass below the Airport expressway. Turn right and follow the Jichang Fulu (Airport side road) direction Beijing until approaching the 5th ring road.

　　Before the 5th ring road bridge turn left (ignore the street sign), along the 5th ring (beside your right), after about 100m, following the sign turning left, entering the village. Continue on the street until seeing on your left the sign board Art Channel（Just besides DOART GALLERY -

　　Hyundai Company）. Here we are. You can’t miss us!

　　最便捷的方式是走機(jī)場(chǎng)高速路；從北皋出口出來, 上京順路北京方向。行至第一個(gè)十字路口處左轉(zhuǎn)，穿過機(jī)場(chǎng)高速橋下再右轉(zhuǎn)，上機(jī)場(chǎng)輔路北京方向行至五環(huán)路五元橋前，您會(huì)在你的左手邊看到一個(gè)大型廣告宣傳牌, 寫著“草場(chǎng)地歡迎您！”左轉(zhuǎn)（別介意禁行標(biāo)志），沿著五環(huán)邊并隨著左轉(zhuǎn)標(biāo)志進(jìn)村，直行您就會(huì)發(fā)現(xiàn)藝術(shù)通道就在您的左手邊（就在韓國(guó)現(xiàn)代 - 都亞特畫廊東邊），如您從其它進(jìn)口進(jìn)入草場(chǎng)地村，請(qǐng)多留意路兩邊電線桿上指路標(biāo)志。