”It is not Complicated, A Guide Book“, exhibition view, 2016, Aike Dellarco west bund space.
“这并不复杂，一本展览手册”，2016年，展览现场，艾可画廊
“It is not Complicated, A Guide Book”
2016, color and sound, dual-channel HD video installation
18’28’’, 7’50’’, size variable
The work is commissioned by curator Biljana Ciric as a part of the project ‘Encounter with Pompidou’ at Centre National d’art et de Culture Georges Pompidou. The text of this two-screen video installation originates from the Chinese version of Centre Pompidou’s museum guide. This former Chinese guide book includes 150 selected pieces of the museum collection’s guide (originally written by Jean Poderos and translated by Hu Bin into Chinese). Addressing the audience from various points of view, this guide book is as a signal from a distanced site, spreading our shared understanding of modernism. I divide the work descriptions of the collections into two parts and showcase within two screens, representing two kinds of points of view. The video source is taken from the documentary I shot in Singapore as a tourist, I selected and rearranged the long-lens movie and the close-up shot, matching them with the text, thus refine two kinds of common logics appear interactively during the processes of artistic production and observation, referring to the modes of the lost ‘wonderer’ and the detached bystander.
《这并不复杂，一本参观手册》
2016年，高清有声彩色双通道录像装置，18分28秒 & 7分50秒，尺寸可变
这件作品受策展人比利安娜·斯瑞克在巴黎蓬皮杜中心所策划的项目“遭遇蓬皮杜”的委任，双屏录像装置中出现的文字部分，其来源于蓬皮杜中心出版的一本中文版的参观手册，这本旧版的中文手册的主要内容，是其甄选的150件蓬皮杜馆藏作品阐释（由Jean Poderos撰文，胡滨翻译为中文的作品介绍）。这本参观导览读物面向背景层次各异的参观者，像一种远端的信号，传播着我们对于现代主义的普遍趋同的认识。我对这些藏品介绍的文字叙述部分进行拆分，以双重视角对文字进行整理，并以双屏录像装置的方式呈现。作品中的影像素材来源于我在新加坡以观光客身份游览时的拍摄记录，我将其中长镜头的游览画面与空镜头的特写画面摘取整理，并与文字进行配合，以此还原在艺术生产与观看现实中的两种共生的惯常逻辑，即现代“漂泊者”式的无所适从与他者视角下冷漠、无表情的观看模式。