推荐｜白川个展——虎的迷途

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EXHIBITION

白川个展——

虎的迷途

策展人：李子健

艺术总监：滕青云

主办：三影堂厦门摄影艺术中心

展期：2023.09.23 - 10.29（周一闭馆）

地址：厦门市集美区杏林湾营运中心2号楼裙楼三层

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我们可能多少都有过类似的经历，在某一个瞬间忽然感受到熟悉的事物变得无比陌生：聚会上的欢声笑语变成了无意义的噪音，熟悉的亲友仿佛成为外人；在相册中看到意料之外的合影，仿佛自己的记忆是一场骗局; 或者在梦里，意识到自己独立于自己的梦境。这些“局外人”的时刻，好像在提醒着我们，由我们熟悉的规则和理性所构成世界仿佛被我们自身所拒绝。

选自《始于爱情，终于疫情》系列

This Animal Year Series

白川的这一系列作品《始于爱情，终于疫情》拍摄了12年，最初选择虎头面具的原因也很简单，虎就是他的属相。这个凶煞的老虎面具陪伴着他经历家庭变故，见证家乡的变化和事业的发展，以及目睹无数琐碎的日常片段。展览的主体即是由这一系列照片组成的记忆长廊，没有具体的时间和人物线索，就像我们突然陷入回忆时那般，过往的时刻随机地涌现。

选自《始于爱情，终于疫情》系列

This Animal Year Series

选自《始于爱情，终于疫情》系列

This Animal Year Series

在这些照片里，虎头多数由他佩戴，有时也会是拍摄现场中的别人，虎头面具遮蔽了一切表情，无论是在何种情境，凶狠的虎头人总是莫名地盯着镜头，时而举起手枪对向自己。这无疑成为了这一系列照片中持续的刺点，将那些仅属于私人的时刻，沉闷的社会仪式和悲痛的情绪统统否定。

我们在照片中看到的，是一种令人惊奇的熟悉的陌生感。家庭合影，聚会照片，旅行留念，这些在这个时代的我们都大量拥有的照片，在白川的演绎下变得陌生。照片中的带着虎头的人似乎独立于照片的时空以外，仿佛一个闯入的外人，拒斥着规则和惯习，或是隐藏着被摄者的情绪。从这个角度而言，我在白川作品里看到的，是他对那些在他生命中不可捉摸的客体或遭遇的迷恋，并以摄影的方式，去唤起他们的积极回应。

选自《始于爱情，终于疫情》系列

This Animal Year Series

选自《始于爱情，终于疫情》系列

This Animal Year Series

“我们已经四分五裂，因而不能要求外人融合于此，更不能追缠他们，而是将他们迎入怪怖之中，因为这种怪怖既属于他们又属于我们。”克里斯蒂娃在《我们自身的外人》中援引弗洛伊德的论述去描述主体与外人遭遇时的异样感受，这种陌生的感受并非是因遭遇外人，而是从根本上，来自于我们自身内部，那些隐秘的，我们对于自身的陌生。在白川跨越一旬的摄影迷途中，他呈现即是如此的遭遇，那些在陌生和稔熟之间，迷人的刺点。

● 文/李子健

艺术家

白 川

白川，摄影师。

展览：5PRCITY, United Nude Miami,迈阿密，美国（2010）；The Sixth International Month of Photography in Moscow: Photobiennale 2006，莫斯科，俄罗斯（2006）；个人展览《爱你比海深》，第二届连州国际摄影年展，连州（2006）；个人展览《许竹》、《通道》，第一届连州国际摄影年展，连州（2005）。

Bai Chuan's Solo Exhibition -

Tiger, the Uncanny

Curator:Li Zijian

Art Director:Teng Qingyun

Organiser:Three Shadows Xiamen Photography Art Centre

Duration:Sep 23, 2023 - Oct 29, 2023

Venue:3rd Floor of Building 2, Xinglinwan Business Centre, Jimei District, Xiamen

We have all experienced moments where the familiar suddenly transforms into an overwhelming sense of uncanny strangeness. Laughter and merriment at parties can become meaningless noise, close friends and loved ones appear as strangers, and unexpected group photos in an album make one question the authenticity of his or her memories. These moments of feeling like an outsider are reminders that the world, constructed by the rules and rationale we are accustomed to, is somehow rejecting us.

选自《始于爱情，终于疫情》系列

This Animal Year Series

Over the course of 12 years, Bai Chuan created his series "This Animal Year". His initial choice of the tiger mask was quite simple – the tiger is his Chinese zodiac sign. This foreboding tiger mask accompanied him through the ups and downs of life, witnessing family upheavals, changes in his hometown, career developments, and countless mundane moments in daily life. The core of this exhibition is a memory corridor comprised of this series of photographs, devoid of specific timestamps or character clues. It's akin to suddenly getting lost in memories, with moments from the past randomly flooding in.

选自《始于爱情，终于疫情》系列

This Animal Year Series

选自《始于爱情，终于疫情》系列

This Animal Year Series

In these photos, most often, it's Bai Chuan himself donning the tiger mask, while at times, others are in the midst of a photo shoot. The tiger mask obscures all facial expressions, and no matter the context, the fierce tiger-headed figure always gazes numbly into the camera, sometimes even pointing a gun towards herself or himself. Undoubtedly, this constant element has become a punctum throughout the series, negating the private moments, somber social rituals, and poignant emotions. What we see in these photos is a strangely familiar yet surprising sense of uncanny strangeness. Family portraits, party snapshots, travel souvenirs – the photos that many of us possess abundantly in this era all become unfamiliar under Bai Chuan's interpretation. The tiger-headed individuals in the photos seem detached from the time and space within the images, almost like intruders rejecting norms and customs, or concealing the emotions of those being photographed. From this perspective, what I discern in Bai Chuan's work is his fascination with objects or encounters that elude his grasp in life, and his endeavor to evoke their positive responses through photography.

选自《始于爱情，终于疫情》系列

This Animal Year Series

"Freud brings us the courage to call ourselves disintegrated in order not to integrate foreigners and even less so to hunt them down, but rather to welcome them to that uncanny strangeness, which is as much theirs as it is ours." As Julia Kristeva quote Freud in "Strangers to Ourselves" when the subject encounters strangers, the feeling of strangeness doesn't stem from the encounter with others but fundamentally arises from within ourselves, from those concealed aspects of ourselves that remain unfamiliar. Throughout Bai Chuan's decade-long photographic journey, he indeed presents the encounters of this nature - those punctum between the unfamiliar and the familiar.

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