2012
(including 4 pieces____包括4件作品)
video installation & video__錄像裝置&錄像
(including 4 pieces____包括4件作品)
video installation & video__錄像裝置&錄像
This series of video works titled《Drawing the urban space》started with the “negative space”
beyond the substantial entities in the city. An impression of a city is largely
related to its physicality -- the shapes and structures of architectures,
landmarks, or roads as they are tangible, visible and touchable. In terms of
the realms which are not occupied by substantial entities but with air flowing
around, these are void spaces filled with untouchable nihility (just as the
scenes shown in the video) and easily neglected by people. However, while we
are living and engaging in activities in these spaces, bit by bit, day by day,
we have left a countless number of breaths and intangible traces. Though it is
so transient, they are the living and truest records of life. This work
attempts to use the dynamic ‘brushworks’ – the moving trajectory of human
beings and vehicles – to expose the intangible “negative space” in the city, thereby
exploring the relationship between the city environment and ourselves from
another perspective. While city development has created numerous large and tall
edifices, should we contemplate the price our original “space” has paid for
this?
這一系列作品的錄像作品《描繪城市空間》是由城市中物質實體之外的「負空間」作為切入點。對城市的印象，大都是那些建築物、地標或道路的外型和結構等實體，因為那些都是可見和可捉摸的。而不被物質實體佔據又有空氣流動的範圍，是空空如也的地方，那是抓不著的虛無（如同錄像所呈現的一切景物），所以容易被人忽視。然而，我們在當中活動和生活，一點一點，一日復一日在這些空間存留下了不能計量的氣息和無形的痕跡，雖然頃刻即逝，但那是生命中活生生和最真實的記錄。作品嘗試運用城市中的動態「筆觸」──人和車輛的移動軌跡──將一個看不見的「負空間」顯影出來，藉以從另一角度探究城市環境和我們的關係。城市發展換來了一座一座又高又大的建築物，與此同時，是否應該思量我們原有的「空間」又付出了什麼的代價呢？
