Curatorial Plan: Yudong Village House Exhibition
This exhibition is held in a traditional house in Yudong Village, combining spatial characteristics with rural labor aesthetics to create an immersive curatorial experience. The exhibition forms a complete tour route from the interactive experience on the first floor to the art display on the second floor, allowing the audience to feel the charm of peasant paintings in the scenes of daily life.
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📍 First Floor: Interactive Experience & Cultural Heritage
1️⃣ Hall – Opening Ceremony & Performance
• As the starting point of the exhibition, an opening ceremony will be held here, inviting local peasant painters, bamboo craftsmen, and village representatives to participate.
• Live performances may include **”Rituals of Dawn and Dusk”**, such as writing the word “labor” on the ground with a broom dipped in water, or playing folk music with farm tools.
2️⃣ Kitchen – “Stove Painting” Display and Interaction
• The kitchen is used as a space to display traditional stove paintings, which record the labor life from spring plowing to autumn harvest.
• Interactive experience: The audience can use charcoal pencils to draw labor sketches on pottery pieces to feel the combination of “fireworks” and art.
3️⃣ Lounge – Cultural and creative product sales
• Set up a special area for peasant paintings and bamboo weaving paintings to sell bookmarks, hand-painted cloth bags, bamboo weaving ornaments, etc. to support villagers’ artistic creation.
• The audience can buy and take away a part of the “rural aesthetics” to continue the influence of the exhibition.
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📍 Second floor: Peasant paintings & bamboo weaving paintings exhibition
1️⃣ Traditional peasant paintings exhibition hall
• Display peasant paintings created by local villagers, covering themes such as labor, folk customs, and rural life.
• Use wall hanging + traditional picture frames + digital projection to create a rich visual experience.
2️⃣ Bamboo weaving painting art space
• “Semi-finished” bamboo weaving paintings are exhibited to highlight the “labor aesthetics” of the weaving process.
• There is a touch experience area for the audience to experience the texture of bamboo strips and the fineness of craftsmanship.
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🔍 Key curatorial considerations
• 🔹 Optimization of movement routes: How to guide the audience to visit in an orderly manner and avoid crowded space?
• 🔹 Depth of interaction: What experiences can enhance the audience’s sense of immersion, rather than just watching?
• 🔹 Light and environment: How to create light and shadow effects suitable for peasant paintings and bamboo paintings on the second floor?
• 🔹 Villager participation: Can villager guides be set up to enhance the community co-creativity of the exhibition?
💡 Conclusion
This exhibition is not only a display of art, but also a presentation of rural lifestyle. It allows the audience to walk into the farmers’ homes and experience “how art is born from labor” in the most realistic scenes.
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