Black Ocean pictures the human landscape destroyed as well as in construction, and its fragility as well as indestructibility. The structure of storytelling of this film is inspired by the novel <Invisible Cities> of Italian writer-Italo Calvino. Several chapters are interwoven with the debate and inquiry raised by Marco Polo and Kublai Khan about their imagined city and landscape in this film. It provides an entrance to allow the audience to get in, to wander, to get lost, and to find an exit or several ones somewhere at some time.
《黑色海洋》这部影片描绘了被摧毁与被建造的人类风景。它受到了意大利小说家－伊塔洛·卡尔维诺（Italo Calvino）的小说《看不见的城市》（Invisible Cities）的启发，由一些短小的章节构成，其中交织着马可波罗(Marco Polo)与忽必烈(Kublai Khan) 关于想象中的城市与风景的叙述、辩论与诘问。它提供一个入口，观众进入它，在里面行走、迷路，又在某一个时刻找到一个出口或者多个出口。
Artist Statement:
This is an urban industrial spectacle built by the monopolized resource industry, and naturally a place of extremely monetary value. Being established in the local gebi desert and yardang landform, it makes an immense and surreal film set aesthetics come into being. What’s in the lens are all real, only seem to be rather absurd.
Machines and animals are serialized in such areas constructed by humans, and this mechanic and unnatural system created the present situation there. People in the shoot are only shadows and signs, functional beings operating drilling platform, machines and vehicles, of no significance in this vast natural industrial landscape and a huge persistently-running system. They are dressed in the same uniform and show their appearance in groups as streams of ants, with no face identifiable in every shoot.
This work looks into the fragility and resilience of those spectacles built and destroyed by humans, presenting a primitive, gloomy, meanwhile peaceful, even hallucinogenic phantom place of its one foot rooted in the distant past, and another marching toward a far future.
作品自述：
这是一片由国家垄断能源行业所建造的城市工业奇观，一个有着极端货币价值的地方。这一片奇观置身于当地的戈壁滩与雅丹地貌中,形成了一种宏大、超现实的电影布景美学,镜头所纪录的人与事物都是真实存在的,同时也是荒诞不羁的。
在这样一片人类建造的区域，机械与动物都被编上了序号。机械与非自然的秩序催生了现在与当下。而那些出现在影像中的人,只是影子与迹象,他们操作钻井平台与各种器械或车辆,他们只是一种功能性 的生命,在恢宏的自然景观、工业景观、与一个庞大的运转体系下显得非常渺小。他们都身着统一的工服, 成群结对的出现在镜头里,蚂蚁一般,甚至镜头里不曾出现过他们的一张脸。它是野性的、阴郁的，它非常安宁,甚至是一片能引起幻觉的魅影世界,它一只脚扎根于遥远的过去, 一只脚迈向遥远的未来。
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Why Not Ask Again?-Maneuvers, Disputations & Stories，11th Shanghai biennale, Power Station of Art Museum, Shanghai, 2016
“何不再问?正辩，反辩，故事”，第11届上海双年展，上海当代 艺术博物馆，上海，2016
Black Ocean，Single channel film，Color, Sound，38’35”，2016，Ed.5+1AP
黑色海洋，单频电影，彩色，有声，38分35秒，2016，Ed.5+1AP
BLACK OCEAN 黑色海洋
Steadfastly Revise for the Standards in Nonproductive Construction, Long March Space, Beijing, 2023
“坚决复习非生产性建筑的标准下辑：液态循环”，长征独立空间，北京，2023
Screening：Dear Loneliness：Urban Solitude on Screen，M+ Art Museum, Hongkong, 2022
放映：“致孤独：银幕上的寂寞城市”，香港M+博物馆，香港，2022
2022 Beijing Biennial，Beijing，2022
“2022首届北京艺术双年展”，北京，2022
In Solidarity with ____?2022 "OCAT × KADIST Emerging Media Artist Program" Exhibition, OCAT Shanghai, Shanghai, 2022
“共同的____” 2022 OCAT × KADIST青年媒体艺术家项目展览单元，上海OCAT，上海，2022
The Planetary Wretched…Narratives on brutalist landscapes of depletion, Moss Arts Center, Virginia Tech, USA, 2021
“可怜的星球...关于枯竭景观的叙事”，莫斯艺术中心，弗吉尼 亚，美国，2021
Liu Yujia｜Never Been There, Vol.18 Digital Archive 2021, Center for Experimental Film, Shanghai, 2021
“专题:刘雨佳|无法抵达”，CEF实验影像中心，上海，2021
Screening: Elemental Relations-Thinking Ecologically through Artist Films and Videos, NYU Shanghai, 2021
放映：“元素关系:通过艺术家的电影和录像进行生态思考”，上海纽约大学，上海，2021
Affect, Wuhan art Museum, Wuhan,2021
“情动”，武汉美术馆，武汉，2021
Sino-Wharf: from Chinatown to Red Internationalism, OCAT Shenzhen，Shenzhen，2020
“华文码头:从唐人街到红色国际主义”，OCAT深圳馆，深圳， 2020
Sino-Wharf: from Chinatown to Red Internationalism, Centre for Experimental Film, 2020
“华文码头:从唐人街到红色国际主义”，CEF实验影像中心， 上海，2020
Screening: Cosmopolis#2: Rethinking the human, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, 2019
放映: “Cosmopolis #2: Rethinking the human”, 蓬皮杜艺术中心，法国巴黎，2019
Video Bureau Archive 90: Liu Yujia，Beijing，Guangzhou, 2019
“录像局 档案 90:刘雨佳”，北京、广州，2019
Materializing Memory：Contemporary Video Art from China，University Art Gallery，University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA, 2019
“塑性记忆:来自中国的当代录像艺术”，匹兹堡大学美术馆，美国匹兹堡，2019
Exhibition Curation and Design，OCT Art & Design Museum，Shenzhen，2019
“策展课-展览与设计”，华美术馆，深圳，2019
What is it that makes today’s LIFE so different？2018-2019 Porsche “Young Chinese Artist of the Year” Nominees’ Exhibition，Beijing，2019
“是什么使今日生活如此不同?”-保时捷“中国青年艺术家双年评 选”，北京，2019
After Nature: UCCA Dune Opening Exhibition, UCCA DUNE Art Museum, Beidaihe, 2018
“后自然:UCCA沙丘美术馆开幕展”，UCCA沙丘美术馆，北戴 河，中国，2018
Frontier：Re-assessment of Post-Globalisational Politics, OCAT，Beijing, 2018
“疆域—地缘的拓扑”，OCAT北京馆，北京，2018
Lianzhou Photo 2017 , Your Selfie Stick (and You)，Lianzhou Photo Museum，Lianzhou, 2017
“2017 连州国际摄影年展，你的自拍杆”，连州摄影博物馆，连 州，2017
Resurrection-The Regeneration of Strongholds, Surplus Space, Wuhan, 2017
“复活”计划 -“据点的再生”，剩余空间，武汉，2017
A Chemical Love Story，Tang Contemporary Art Beijing, Beijing,
“化学之爱”，当代唐人艺术中心北京主空间，北京，2017
Why Not Ask Again?-Maneuvers, Disputations & Stories，11th Shanghai biennale, Power Station of Art Museum, Shanghai, 2016
“何不再问?正辩，反辩，故事”，第11届上海双年展，上海当代 艺术博物馆，上海，2016
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