🌿🌿 Yuri Yuan: Dark Dreams exhibiton at ALEXANDER BERGGRUEN Gallery, New York 🌿🌿

September 02, 2022

🌿🌿 Yuri Yuan: Dark Dreams exhibiton at ALEXANDER BERGGRUEN Gallery, New York 🌿🌿

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Yuri Yuan cordially invites you to her second solo exhibition

Dark Dreams

at the ALEXANDER BERGGRUEN Gallery, New York

September 7-October 12, 2022

Opening Reception: Wednesday, September 7, 5-7 pm

Yuri Yuan delves further into the psyche considering not only the human condition between the waking and the sleeping, but also between the living and the dead. In her work "Will You Remember Me", she hides memento mori under moonlight in an alluring field of flowers by a mysterious body of water. The artist conceptualized this work as she was considering how she would be remembered, or not, when she’s gone. Between being remembered or forgotten, she wonders: “Which one is more desirable? Who knows.”

Driven by this uncertainty, Yuan intentionally references multiple open narratives of Greek mythology. As a recurring motif in Yuan’s work, a figure’s presence ferrying a boat is revealed only through their reflection on water. The artist considers this ferryman to be a reference to Charon of Hades, who carries the souls of the deceased to the underworld across the river Acheron. She allows that the river could also be another infernal river: Lethe, the river of forgetfulness; drinking from Lethe allows the spirits of the dead to forget their earthly lives, enabling them to be reincarnated. Must one forget or be forgotten in order to move on?

Yuri Yuan: Dark Dreams (September 7-October 12, 2022) (alexanderberggruen.com)

About the Artist

This exhibition marks the gallery’s second solo show with the artist, following Yuri Yuan: River Flows in You (July 21-August 31, 2021).

Yuri Yuan (b. 1996, Harbin, China) holds a Visual Arts MFA from Columbia University, New York, NY and a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL. Yuan was a recipient of the Helen Frankenthaler Scholarship at Columbia University in 2020, and Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant in 2019 and 2022. The artist’s work has been exhibited at Alexander Berggruen, NY; Make Room Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Simon Lee Gallery, London, UK; Moss Arts Center, Blacksburg, VA; Lenfest Center for the Arts, New York, NY; Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, IL; and International Center for the Arts, Umbria, Italy, among others. Her work is represented in the public collections of Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH and The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, CA. Yuan lives and works in New York, NY

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More artworks by Yuri Yuan

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The Storm in Me, 2022
oil on linen
36 x 48 in. (91.4 x 121.9 cm.)

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Yuri Yuan

Will You Remember Me, 2022

oil on linen

72 x 60 in. (182.9 x 152.4 cm.)

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About The Alexander Berggruen Gallery

Alexander Berggruen Gallery, established in 2019 and based in the Upper East Side of New York City, presents both historic and contemporary exhibitions with living artists. The gallery’s program focuses on 20th century and contemporary art, with a particular specialty in American and European post-World-War-II movements from Abstract Expressionism to Color Field, Pop, Minimalism, Conceptual Art, The Pictures Generation, and Contemporary. Alexander Berggruen offers paintings, drawings and works on paper, sculpture, and limited edition prints.

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