打包自然 / Packing the Nature / Einpacken der Natur
裝置 / Installation 2016- 2017
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2016年秋，在德國薩爾造型藝術學院（Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Saar）朗根多夫教授（Prof. Gabriele Langendorf ）的策劃下，我們工作室一行十多人，往阿托藝術實驗室（ArTollKunstlabor）駐村創作半個月。阿托藝術實驗室位於德荷邊境小鎮貝德堡豪（Bedburg-Hau），此處有別於傳統畫廊與藝術館，是一處藝術家可短期居住，並就地獲得靈感進行創作的藝術實驗場地。這裡前身是德國精神疾病醫院群，在二戰期間這裡的病人被納粹軍隊大量屠殺。在這種特殊的文化歷史背景下，阿托藝術實驗室期望藝術家在一種特定環境下得到靈感，並期望創作者和觀者雙方同時在此達到以藝術作為治療和淨化心靈的功能。 時至今天，歷史的沉重感並沒在這裡刻下過多痕跡，取而代以是一個安靜而獨立的社區，讓藝術家能在這片土地上思考和創作。駐村期間讓我留下最深刻印象的是我們的一次小旅行。我們以徒步的方式從藝術實驗室走到莫伊蘭德城堡（Schloss Moyland），秋風送爽，沿途看到滿山滿谷的栗子樹、山中小溪流和羣長的蕈類，讓人全身心沐浴在大自然當中。我便以此為題材，以人與自然的互動作為創作命題，創作了《打包自然》這個系列。在這組作品當中，我以直敍的方式敍述森林中的所見所聞，當中寄託了我對日漸失去自然的慨歎，有對人工取代自然的觀察，也有我對打包美好事物的願望。塑膠袋本身即是工業產物，人工的顏色透露出一種反自然的傾向，與大自然本身色彩處於一個對立的狀態。在我的創作中，五光十色指涉的是人類追求更好生活所做的建設，但同時這種建設必然對環境做出改變和侵入。在駐村期間悠閒的創作氛圍下，我其實並未太著意於對人與環境的關係進行批判，我認為過早的定義只會讓人們失去討論和思考的空間。我在此更傾向透過創作表達一種對人與環境的觀察。人類活動對自然界的介入是不可改變的事實，但介入的方式其實是可變動和多元的，存在多種可能性。所以如何平衡兩者的關係，才是我更關心的議題。透過此組作品我想表達人對美好生活的期望，而這種期望和自然環境是互利共生的，維護自然是人類的責任。此次展覽透過澳門全藝社的支持,讓我把這組作品帶回我的故鄉-澳門再次展出. |
In Autumn 2016, Prof. Gabriele Langendorf of Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Saar invited more than ten members of our studio to ArTollKunstlabor, where we worked on art production for about two weeks. ArTollkunstlabor is located at Bedburg-Hau, a small town on the Dutch-German border. Different from a conventional gallery and art museum, it is a site of experimental arts where artists can stay for a short period of time and be inspired. During the Second World War, the property was a psychiatric hospital complex, where patients were slaughtered en masse. Against this special cultural and historical background, ArTollKunstlabor hopes that artists are inspired and that both authors and viewers are healed and have their souls purged amid this peculiar setting.
Nowadays, the sorrowful history has barely left a mark on this territory, instead, it has contributed to the community being solitary and independent, which prompts artists to think and create. What impressed me most during our residence was one of our short trips: we walked from ArTollKunstlabor to Schloss Moyland, admiring chestnut trees, streams and mushrooms all over the mountains along the way with an autumn breeze, and were soothed by Mother Nature. Inspired by this experience, I took the interaction between humans and nature as a theme to produce "Packing the Nature"series.
In this series, I plainly portrayed what I saw and heard in the forest as well as my sadness about the destruction of nature, including the notion that artificiality is displacing natural forces and my wish of packing the wonder of nature. Plastic bags are industrial goods. Its artificial colour is an antithesis of natural ones and thus reveals an anti-natural tendency. Resplendence, in this series, refers to the construction that human beings are made to pursue a better life, though such construction inevitably transforms and intrudes on the environment. I did not pay too much attention to the criticism of the relationship between nature and mankind during my leisurely residence, as I was convinced that an early definition would ruin the possibility of discussion and reasoning, and would like to depict my observation of man and nature. Man's intrusion of nature is unpreventable, but the way of which is changeable and diverse. I am therefore more concerned about the balance between the two. In this series, I would like to express my wish towards good life, while this wish and the well-being of the natural environment are mutually dependent. Protecting nature is therefore the responsibility of mankind. With the support of Art For All Society(Macau), I am able to bring this series back to my hometown, Macao, and share it with viewers.
Nowadays, the sorrowful history has barely left a mark on this territory, instead, it has contributed to the community being solitary and independent, which prompts artists to think and create. What impressed me most during our residence was one of our short trips: we walked from ArTollKunstlabor to Schloss Moyland, admiring chestnut trees, streams and mushrooms all over the mountains along the way with an autumn breeze, and were soothed by Mother Nature. Inspired by this experience, I took the interaction between humans and nature as a theme to produce "Packing the Nature"series.
In this series, I plainly portrayed what I saw and heard in the forest as well as my sadness about the destruction of nature, including the notion that artificiality is displacing natural forces and my wish of packing the wonder of nature. Plastic bags are industrial goods. Its artificial colour is an antithesis of natural ones and thus reveals an anti-natural tendency. Resplendence, in this series, refers to the construction that human beings are made to pursue a better life, though such construction inevitably transforms and intrudes on the environment. I did not pay too much attention to the criticism of the relationship between nature and mankind during my leisurely residence, as I was convinced that an early definition would ruin the possibility of discussion and reasoning, and would like to depict my observation of man and nature. Man's intrusion of nature is unpreventable, but the way of which is changeable and diverse. I am therefore more concerned about the balance between the two. In this series, I would like to express my wish towards good life, while this wish and the well-being of the natural environment are mutually dependent. Protecting nature is therefore the responsibility of mankind. With the support of Art For All Society(Macau), I am able to bring this series back to my hometown, Macao, and share it with viewers.
