作品敘述
楊順發 YANG Shun-Fa｜「野孩子」系列 "Playground" series
楊順發為台南善化人，是中鋼公司的藍領工人。作品曾獲邀至美國、法國、香港、科索沃、北愛爾蘭…等國外展出，曾獲2018年高雄獎，2022年獲台北西區扶輪社《台灣文化獎》，並獲國內外各大美術館收藏。
楊順發從事攝影藝術工作近40年一直把鏡頭向外，以社會觀察和台灣土地作為創作主題，例如《高雄計畫》或《海島計畫》。這次將鏡頭向內，要面對的是自身的故鄉、家族及個人內心世界；為了創作、回鄉種田，耽溺在曾文溪水與土的冒險裡，像個「野孩子」擺脫束縛和框架。
作品中運用1841年發明的卡羅法攝影術（Calotypeprocess），，自製紙負片挑戰技術的不可控制性，呈現不可預測的纖維紋路，挑戰各種可能，創造紙質肌理的模糊感，以編導式攝影復返家族故事，讓玩伴、家族登場變成大地舞台的配角，延續想像，創造出另類的夢遊仙境。此次展出的「野孩子」系列創作，是藝術家對自我尋根溯源之旅，也是對攝影史的溯源，與此同時思考著都市化帶來的繁華、時代的變遷，卻也加速抽離對於家鄉情感的連結、生命的養分，而我們要留下什麼給這片土地？
Artist YANG Shun-Fa is a native of Shanhua District, Tainan City, and is currently a blue-collar worker at China Steel Corporation. His works have been exhibited abroad in the United States, France, Hong Kong, Kosovo, Northern Ireland, and other countries. He has won the 2018 Kaohsiung Award and the 2022 Taipei West District Rotary Club's "Taiwan Cultural Award". His works are also in the collections of major museums in Taiwan and abroad.
Yang Shun-fa has been working in photography for nearly 40 years, always turning his lens outward, using social observation and Taiwanese land as his creative themes, such as "Kaohsiung Project" or "Island Project". In order to create and return to my hometown to farm, indulged in the adventure of water and soil in the Zengwun River. Like a "wild child" who broke free from constraints and frameworks.
Yang Shun-fa used the calotype process invented by Talbot in 1841 to make he’s own negative paper film to challenge the uncontrollability of the technology and present unpredictable fiber patterns. In creations, he’s used to applying all kinds of props and arranging all kinds of characters to create the stage between the reality and the illusion.
This time, Artist will turn he’s lens inward to face he’s hometown, he’s family, and he’s own inner world. The connection with hometown feelings has become the nourishment of life. It is his story, and it also belongs to the story of the people who grew up here.
In this family drama, he mended the gaps in time, warmed up emotions, and also went on a family roots journey. This is not only a journey to the source of the Zengwun River, a journey to the source of his personal life, but also a journey to the source of photography history. Through a series of works, he hope to give people a chance to rethink these years of loss and gain in the Zengwen River basin and agricultural human landscape. Urbanization brings prosperity, but it also accelerates the loss of his memories. Hometown gives us life, and what do we want to leave for this land?