EXHIBITION -CERAMIC ENTROPY - BEIJING 2015

CERAMIC ENTROPY – CHINA 2015

CERAMIC INSTALLATION AND A VIDEO PRESENTED AT SHANGYUAN ART MUSEUM BEIJING 2015

NATURAL DECAY OF MATERIAL

In Shayoukou Village, near Beijing, Ceramic Entropy explored the natural decay of material over time.
As an art installation measuring local weather and atmosphere, it took into account the shifting
climate and its effects on unfired clay objects. Over twenty days, the exhibition traced their
transformation, shifting from form to fragmentation under the forces of climate and entropy.

CONSTRUCTION AND EROSION

Shayoukou’s architecture, defined by red bricks and gray-black tiles, reflects an ongoing cycle of
construction and erosion. The village breathes in patterns of daily life—goats roaming, housewives
dancing, and loudspeakers announcing the morning’s directives—while high walls guard hidden
interiors, marking the boundary between public and private spaces.
With language as a barrier, the project relied on observation, drawing insight from the material
landscape. The bricks, tiles, and earthen forms became both medium and message, embodying
a dialogue between permanence and impermanence, presence and loss.

UNFOLDING PROCESS

Ceramic Entropy was not merely an exhibition but an unfolding process, a reflection of the unseen
forces shaping the village. Through shifting surfaces and fractured forms, the work captured a
poetic tension—between the enduring and the ephemeral, the tangible and the elusive, the
structured and the surrendered.

ENTROPY

Entropy is equal to the measurement of the energy associated with transformations:
The idea of entropy comes from a principle of thermodynamics
with energy. It usually refers to the idea that everything in the universe eventually
from order to disorder, and entropy is the measurement of that change.
http://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/entropy

FUNDED BY:

THE DANISH ART COUNCIL- PRODUCTIONFOUNDATION
THE DANISH ART COUNCIL – ART FOUNDATION
THE DANISH CENTRAL BANK ANNIVERSARY FOUNDATION OF 1968
GROSSERER J.L. FOGHTS FOUNDATION