David Lane

1989 Born in London, United Kingdom

2012 Graduated from the Fine Art Department of Kingston University with a bachelor´s degree, UK

2013 Graduated from the Fine Art Department of Chelsea College of Art with a master´s degree, UK

Currently works and lives in Beijing

SOLO EXHIBITION

2013

Splice, The Morgue, London, UK

RAW - A Showcase of New Postgraduate Talent, Kweek Week Gallery, London, UK

2012

Political Parodies of Artistic Events, The Stanley Picker Gallery in collaboration with The White Shed Gallery, London, UK

GROUP EXHIBITION

2016

2016 Art Nova 100, Beijing, China

2015

Collaborate - the 16^th OPEN International Performance Festival, Space Station, Beijing, China

2014

Young Gods, The Griffin Gallery & Charlie Smith Gallery, London, UK

New Contemporaries, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK

2013

Dead Standing Things - Information Booklet Re-contextualising an Exhibition of British Still Life's, Tate Britain, London, UK

David Lane: My work has undergone a radical change since I moved to China in 2014. The following statement is representational of my current stance towards what I make and why: I would describe my current work as an attempt to materialise the place at the other side of appearance, where we all live. Many of most recent works are based on moulds taken from my own body - the closest experience of matter that I will ever have, and the only part of the material world that I live inside. My work attempts to treat the body not as an object, but as a place. Thus, through making works that enclose the space of a particular body I aim to identify a condition common to all human beings. The work is not symbolic but indexical – a trace of a real event of a real body in time.