个展
Solo Exhibition 2021
无生命的原因
Inanimate Reason
作品的生产对我而言是一种伸出双手对抗客观世界的“行动”，一种对某种不可名妆的情绪和感性的记录，并最终反映为可感的实体。在这次的展览里，创作素材大多取自我对日常生活，政治场景，和技术图像中制造物的观察。我像是一个收集者，将信息整合，再制造。作品与作品之间形成链环，一个作品从另一个作品那里涉取意义，又将意义传递给下一件作品。
关于《无生命的原因》的想法萌生于21年初，在bottom space的展出也并非终点。那个时候很多人们都还处于居家隔离的状态，我们都蜷缩在自己的一隅，共同耽溺在图像的世界里。《太阳印记》的制作也是从那个时间开始。空闲的时候，我会用蓝晒在客厅的窗台上依靠着太阳的光线去制作一张从NASA下载的在太空中拍摄的太阳的图片。依靠着这样传统的图像制作方式，太阳的光线从遥远的黑暗里，以明灭不定的姿态在我的生活里留下了一点点物理证据。而时间，紫外线强度，和颜料浓度的不同引向了这些证据最终充满差异性的结果。
《渐见万象》的创作素材同样也来自于NASA，作为普通人，我们能以这样“近距离”的方式观看太阳是一种奇迹。我把大量的太阳图像收集到一起，并使用生成对抗网络去分辨，计算，并生成新的太阳的图片。机器学习有能力去生成足够以假乱真的太阳，但是我选择了让运算停留在趋于精确的半路——此时的太阳还在像素之中运动，被算法的真假分辨器挑选。在观看视频的时候，你或许还可以听见我的呼吸声，和烧毁灌木的火声，它们以声波的方式，抵达这个半开放式空间的每一个角落。
《地心上的工艺》和《23.13°，113.27°》是另一种对太阳图像的想象和使用。太阳作为象征图像在政治图景的历史上不断演变，并始终代表着至高的权力。《亲，控制不了二十厘米》是更直接的权力与自然生命互渗的象征。狂蛮的树木被砍伐，换以需要固定器的精细树苗；笔直的树根被生产被生产出来，运往各地作为装饰。
《无生命的原因》同名于卡尔·戈特利布·冯·温迪施于1783发表的关于土耳其傀儡机器人骗局的书信集。他以亲历者的角度一步步揭示了傀儡机器人的技术幻象。骗局被揭示后，傀儡机器人被收藏于美国费城的中国美术馆。因为一场大火，最终只剩下一片灰烬。Silas Weir MItchell写道“我们的朋友在离世前最后说的话，是不断重复地呢喃着, 西洋棋!西洋棋!” 而西洋棋在法语中有另外一个意思——失败。
For me, the making of works is an "action" of stretching out my hands against the world, a record of some indescribable emotion and sensibility, and finally reflected as a tangible entity. In this exhibition, the creative materials are mostly taken from my observations of daily life, political scenes, and artifacts in technical images. I am like a collector, integrating and remanufacturing information. Links are formed between works, one work draws meaning from another work, and transmits meaning to the next work.
The idea from Inanimate Reason was born in early 2021, and its present at bottom space is not the end but the process. At that time, many people were still in a state of isolation at home, and we all curled up in our own corner, indulging in the world of images. The production of Of the Presence of the Sun also started from that time. In my spare time, I will use cyanotypes on the windowsill of the living room to rely on the sun's rays to make a picture of the sun taken in space downloaded from NASA. Relying on such a traditional way of making images, the light of the sun leaves a little bit of tangible evidence in my life from the distant darkness. Variations in time, UV intensity, and pigment concentration lead to the ultimately variable results.
The original material of Into the Gorgeous Crush Of Everything also comes from NASA. It is a miracle that we can look at the sun in such a close-up way. I collected a large number of sun images and fed them into a generative adversarial network which is a way for artificial intelligence to generate image. Even though machine learning has the ability to generate image of sun that looks real enough to confuse people, I chose to capture the in-progress moment. While watching the video, you may still be able to hear the sound of my breathing, and the fire of burning the bushes. They reach every corner of this semi-open space in the form of sound waves.
Black Sun Under the Blue Sky and 23.13°，113.27° are another imagination and use of the image of the sun. The sun as a symbolic image has evolved throughout the history of the political landscape and has always represented supreme power. Dear, We Cannot Control It to Exact 20 Centimeters is a representation of power and natural life. Wild trees are felled and replaced with delicate saplings that require fixers; straight roots are produced and shipped everywhere as decorations.
Inanimate Reason is named after Carl Gottlieb von Windisch's 1783 collection of letters about the trick of Mechanical Turk-a deceptive automaton chess player. He revealed the technical illusion of the puppet robot step by step from the perspective of a witness. After the deception was revealed, the Mechanical Turk was collected in the Chinese Art Museum in Philadelphia. Because of a fire, only a piece of ashes remained in the end. Silas Weir Mitchell wrote that "the last words of our departed friend, the sternly whispered, oft-repeated syllables, chess! chess!" One thing to point out is chess has another meaning in French - failure.
《渐见万象》 Into the Gorgeous Crush of Evryhting 单屏视频 single channel video with audio 09’14”
《太阳印记》 Of the Presence of the Sun 绢布艺术微喷inkjet print on silk. 34 x 44 cm
sound performance in collabration with mafmadmaf and racing rain