255 – 0 + Tea is an interactive installation created for Galleria Carla Sozzani, it is the fourth stage of an itinerant project of the chinese artist Weihong and it is the first artist’s exhibition in Europe.
The project is inspired by the concept of Yin and Yang, that is at the base of the artistic search of Weihong. As it is known, the relation between the two elements creates interaction and exchange, tension and harmony.
From this consideration Weihong created a project in which art is seen like an exchange space.
The title of the exhibition comes from the digital numbers: “255”, that identifies pure white and “0”, that identifies total black. “Tea” in this installation represents the selected mean for creating an interaction.
Adapting the project to the diversity of the places that accommodate it Weihong creates a space perfectly divided in equal parts between white and black. In Galleria Carla Sozzani space, a central box, divided as the Yin and the Yang is the heart of the exhibition / performance, where the ceremony of the tea will carry out: the artist will have a tea with the visitors in the setting she has created for. All is white or black, the cups, the tables, the teaspoons, and a demarcation line divides two zones: the “255” one and the “0” one. In this way the occasion for a series of relationships is created: between the various visitors gathered for this ceremony, between the visitors and the artist, between the public and the space created from the artist in order to receive it and to introduce the project.
255 – 0 + Tea is an interactive installation created for Galleria Carla Sozzani, it is the fourth stage of an itinerant project of the chinese artist Weihong and it is the first artist’s exhibition in Europe.
The project is inspired by the concept of Yin and Yang, that is at the base of the artistic search of Weihong. As it is known, the relation between the two elements creates interaction and exchange, tension and harmony.
From this consideration Weihong created a project in which art is seen like an exchange space.
The title of the exhibition comes from the digital numbers: “255”, that identifies pure white and “0”, that identifies total black. “Tea” in this installation represents the selected mean for creating an interaction.
Adapting the project to the diversity of the places that accommodate it Weihong creates a space perfectly divided in equal parts between white and black. In Galleria Carla Sozzani space, a central box, divided as the Yin and the Yang is the heart of the exhibition / performance, where the ceremony of the tea will carry out: the artist will have a tea with the visitors in the setting she has created for. All is white or black, the cups, the tables, the teaspoons, and a demarcation line divides two zones: the “255” one and the “0” one. In this way the occasion for a series of relationships is created: between the various visitors gathered for this ceremony, between the visitors and the artist, between the public and the space created from the artist in order to receive it and to introduce the project.