Lore of the Stargazers: wenliang.C x 1220
观星｜Lore of the Stargazer | 陈文亮 x 1220
时间：2026年9月4日-10月12日 每日 10:00-19:00
地址：香蕉鱼书店，上海市长宁区红宝石路7号
展览《Lore of the Stargazer | 观星》于2026年9月4日在香蕉鱼书店开幕，由平面设计师陈文亮与研究型艺术组合1220共同展开。周末三天，设计师陈文亮在展览现场为大家导览。
1220为「观星」提供了最初的“lore”，你可以将它们理解为一种散落各处的文本，就像游戏里随着探险时不时出现的文字。陈文亮是lore的第一个读者，他用视觉扩写了这个故事，亦在设计过程中保留了留白与想象的空间——观众可以放任自己想象哥白尼与哥伦布相识的故事。
「观星」试图让观者在信息、留白与想象间自行建立关联。展出作品包括构成虚构叙事的lore文本，以及根据此项制作的设计作品。文本中的故事皆为虚构，但经由内容提出的问题不是。文本与视觉在共创过程中不断相互影响；设计作品带来的幽默与再解读，反过来推动lore文本继续生长。
我们观星，是为了确信自己对历史的怀疑。
在这个虚构的故事里，语言像孩童的玩具，被怀疑、想象、重构，被赋予新的方位。
但，来自几万年前的光本身没有任何语言，只是提供相对位置。
每个人都会对散落的星星产生不同的理解，在遥远的想象中，故事被我们吟诵和改写，这也许是lore的魔法。
陈文亮：
平面设计师，艺术指导。以独特的视觉风格为品牌、展览与出版物提供设计服务。
陈文亮的设计实践围绕3DCG与平面视觉的结合展开。他刻意保留建模软件中的原始痕迹，如未完成的模型、低精度渲染与穿模效果，形成带有低精度美学的个人风格。
主要展览包括个展《写真》于东京Fluss（2024年），个展《Printed Matter》于东京Detour（2024年）；双人展《pairpair》于东京茑屋书店代官山店（2024年）；社会设计项目《Here》于惠州野岛文化生活社区（2025年）。作品连续入选并提名Tokyo TDC Prize；2025年获Award360°年度社会设计金奖及年度新人奖。
1220：
1220是杨心苡和路梦瑶组成的研究型艺术组合。两人于博士在读时期开始共同创作。
1220 以“文体”的形式探索“场所”的表现。她们带着异乡人的视角和经验，将“文体”视为一种叙事结构（narrative structure），围绕“场所何以为场所”——及其成立的边界，通过作品不断重新定义场所作为现象呈现的流动和变迁。作品包括观念艺术《地域表現1号》、参与式行为表演《Discourse: Assortment No. 1》、装置《Plan: K_Alice (PlaceExists(山手)): 散歩计划》，以及装置《Boxed Ukiyo》（东京根津，2024；研究型艺术展「absolute disorder」，韩国水原，2025）与《红灯亮时，在此等候》（「文字诗学lab：字托邦——语言的栖居之地」，深圳）。2024至2026年连续三年策划并运营小型地方艺术节《根津计划：附近美术馆》，该项目于2026年出展BAC社区设计大赏「美学介入！理想的社区」。
(en) Lore of the Stargazers | wenliang.C x 1220
Duration: 2026.09.04–2026.10.12
Venue: BANANAFISH, No. 7, Hongbaoshi Road, Changning District, Shanghai
Opening Hours: 10:00-19:00
The exhibition Lore of the Stargazer | 观星 opened on September 4, 2026, at BANANAFISH. Co-presented by graphic designer wenliang.C and the research-based art collective 1220, the exhibition featured guided tours led by wenliang.C during its opening three-day weekend.
1220 provided the narrative content, or “lore,” for the exhibition. Lore can be understood as scattered textual fragments, reminiscent of the hidden message players discover while exploring video games. As the first reader of this written lore, wenliang.C expanded the narrative through visuals. He intentionally left parts of the story untold throughout his design process, inviting viewers to freely imagine the fictional encounter between Copernicus and Columbus.
Lore of the Stargazer encourages audiences to build their own connections between the provided information, what is left untold, and their own imagination. The exhibition features the lore texts alongside the responsive design pieces they inspired. While the stories remain fictional, the questions they provoke are undeniably real. Throughout this co-creation process, text and visuals continually shape one another. The humor and fresh interpretations brought by the design works allow the lore to evolve even further.
We gaze at the stars to reaffirm our skepticism toward history.
In this fictional narrative, language becomes a child’s toy, questioned, imagined, reconstructed, and given new coordinates.
Yet the starlight itself, traveling across thousands of years, is not language; it merely offers relative positions.
We all interpret the scattered stars differently.
With our distant imaginations, we recite and rewrite stories.
Perhaps, that is the true magic of lore.
wenliang.C：
Graphic designer and art director. He provides design services for brands, exhibitions, and publications, known for a highly distinctive visual style.
wenliang.C‘s design practice is positioned at the intersection of 3DCG and 2D graphic visuals. He intentionally preserves the rawness of 3D modeling software, such as unfinished models, low-resolution rendering, and clipping effects, to create a personal style characterized by a lo-fi aesthetic.
His major exhibitions include the solo exhibitions Shashin (写真) at Fluss, Tokyo (2024) and Printed Matter at Detour, Tokyo (2024); the duo exhibition pairpair at Daikanyama Tsutaya Books, Tokyo (2024); and the social design project Here at the Yedao Cultural Community, Huizhou (2025). His works have been consecutively selected for and nominated for the Tokyo TDC Prize. In 2025, he received the Award360° Gold Award for Social Design of the Year and the Newcomer of the Year Award.
1220:
1220 (LuM; YangH) is a research-based art collective formed by Yang and Lu. The two began collaborating during their doctoral studies.
1220 explores the expression of place through different literary forms. Drawing on their perspectives and experiences as outsiders, they treat different literary forms as frameworks for negotiating the fluidity and transformation of place as a lived phenomenon.
Their works include the conceptual artwork Regional Expression No. 1; participatory performance Discourse: Assortment No. 1; installation Plan: K_Alice (PlaceExists(Yamanote)): Sanpo Keikaku; installation Boxed Ukiyo (Nezu, Tokyo, 2024; absolute disorder research-based art exhibition, Suwon, South Korea, 2025); and Wait Here When the Red Light is On (featured in Textopia: Dwelling Places of Language, Shenzhen). For three consecutive years (2024–2026), they curated and managed the grassroots local art event Nezu Project: Neighborhood Art Museum, which was exhibited at the 2026 BAC Community Design Awards.
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