Bangyu (b. 1991 in Xi'an/ based in London ) is an interdisciplinary practitioner working with sculpture, installation, and sound. Their method is akin to drafting a non-linear narrative novel by starting with visual language, auditory language, and smell. Bangyu's fascination with ready-made materials and sculptural forms combines to create, linking past times and places. The materials bring accurate feelings. Through re-contextualization, with underlying narrative elements such as love, desire, indulgence, fetish, symmetry, and rituals, these works develop new narratives while serving as moments of nostalgia and imagination.
Bangyu interested in those events defined as history that disrupt and intrude upon the present space and time, which resonates like aftershocks, as the antennas of modern industry connect to the permanently shelved hard drives of hidden narratives. Bangyu want to explore the topography of sound and the relationships between space and time, viewing it as a container of sound, auditory hallucinations, and memories.
Their sound practices aim to build a space where chaos and cacophony can find their layers in the tapestry of auditory innovation. To disrupt the equilibrium of familiar tonal landscapes, they invite the audience to question preconceived notions of harmony and melody.
范邦宇,生于西安,目前工作居住在伦敦。2024年毕业于斯莱德艺术学院。邦宇是一个跨媒介艺术家,通过涉及装置,雕塑,图片,声音和写作等多种媒介,以对话的形式不断探讨关于时间、语言和感知的多重命题;并探讨如何通过视觉、听觉和嗅觉来起草一部非线性叙事的小说。无论是直接挪用的现成品、烧制或拆解重组的物体、文本,都呈现出复杂与隐喻。它们像是从当代社会不起眼的角落中被聚拢,组合成一段具有当下力量的叙事。对于邦宇来说,这些媒材或许是反映时间与空间的有效“物证”,有时它们提出诗意的疑问;有时它们则更像是冷峻的寓言。
邦宇对现成物材料与雕塑形式的迷恋,构成了一种跨越时空的连接,作品中的材料带来了精准的感受。通过重新语境化,这些作品在潜藏的叙事元素中——诸如爱、欲望、沉溺、迷恋、对称与仪式感——发展出新的叙事,同时也成为对记忆与想象的片段凝视。
她对那些被定义为“历史”的事件感兴趣,尤其是它们如何打断并侵入当下的时空,在现代工业的天线与被永久搁置的叙事硬盘之间引发余震的共鸣,她希望探索声音的地形图以及空间与时间之间的关系,并将其视为声音、听觉幻象与记忆的容器。
邦宇的声音实践旨在构建一个让混乱与嘈杂得以层叠展开的空间——在听觉创新的织网中制造张力。她试图扰乱熟悉的音调景观的平衡,邀请观众质疑原有的和谐与旋律观念。
Selected Award&Prize
2024- Almacantar Award, London, UK
(nomination)Max Werner Drawing Prize, London, UK
Residency Competition 2025 - Shortlisted Artists, The Muse Gallery, London
2022- UCL Slade Studentship Award, London, UK
Selected Exhibition
DUAL & SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025
CANON (S), Small-Time Project, Farringdon
If it does not break it will bend, Mandy Zhang Art, London
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025
Wandering Till the Wind Whispers My Land 风中未竟的栖所, Unit 1 Gallery, London
STRATA 层 Tuoli, Xinjiang, China
Late works, CafeOTO, London
I WOULD RATHER BE HORIZONTA, The Bomb Factory Marylebone, London
On the Verge / On the Cusp, The Koppel project
Nature, CICA Museum, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea
2024
One must imagine us happy, CSM, London
Escape From Tartarus, Safehouse 2, London Design Festival, London
Practice Love Series--Absence, Uneven Project, London
Practice Love Series, Aftershock, Studio/Chapple, London
Residency Competition 2025 - Shortlisted Artists, The Muse, London
Short Air vol 1.5, Sound Performance, Keep It Simple Sexy, Barbican Arts Group
Trust, London
Practice Love series 2024, How to Play Hopscotch, KOPPEL Collective, London
Short Air vol 1.0, Sound Performance, How to Play Hopscotch, KOPPEL Collective, London
Short Air vol 1.0, Sound Performance, Era Journal’s 2024 Group Show, London
THREADING THE EYE, the Crypt Gallery, London
2023
Soma Sand, Sound performance, The Other Company, VeryArt! London
Judd Dredd, Worlding Project, London
3’53’’, HoshinaToyomi’ Mono-ha Workshop Exhibition, China
A Joyful Place, 798, China
The Fault (video), OCAT, China
Joint Exhibition for the Most Potential Chinese Artist, Kunming, China
Sa Pardon Sound Art Exhibition, Xi’an, China
The Inter-Youth International Youth Painting Exhibition, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China
2016
Xi' an Caiju Showcase Special Exhibition, Xi’an, China
Young Artist Promotion Plan, Neon Wall, Xi’an, China
No.6 Portrait, Discovery and Reconstruction Exhibition, Shanghai Duolun
Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
Collections
-2024
Private collections in Bow Arts, London
Private collections in 798, Beijing
Private collections in XAFA, Xi'an
Public collections in Duolun Museum, Shanghai
Education
2022-2024
Slade School of Fine Art
2014-2017
Xi‘an Academy of Fine Art
MFA Fine Art Media ( Distinction )
Contemporary Oil Painting