「我們就像群必須在外海重新造船的水手，從來就無法在乾船塢裡拆船、再以其最佳零組件來重構。」＿＿形象科學，2015，WJT Mitchell
萬丈高樓從不是平地而起，營建工程的開工儀式——「動土」已經為我們指明：凡是涉及建造之處，總是伴隨著清理、開闢與整肅。
哲學家海德格（Martin Heidegger）詩意地連接起「存有」與「居住」的潛在關聯，並指出我們實際上都處於一種「被拋狀態（thrownness）」，無可避免地投入，同時也被投入於周遭環境之中。
在建築圖學中，「圖底圖（figure-ground）」即常用於標示出基地及其周邊的相鄰關係，就如同諺語「擇鄰而居」所暗示的，居住（dwelling）並不是在白紙狀態（tabula rasa）上任意進行興建，而總是在參與、介入已經既有的環境，並隱含著在其中重新建立起一段關係的意味。
「圖底圖」的繪製，因此代表著相鄰關係的界定與劃分，並提示出我們與周遭的情況與處境：我們意欲何往？我們所居何處？

“We are like sailors who must rebuild the ship on the open sea, never able to
dismantle it in dry-dock and to reconstruct it there out of the best materials.
”__Image Science, 2015, WJT Mitchell
The loftiest towers never rise from the ground, as the term “groundbreaking” in construction engineering implies: whenever it comes to construction, always comes with destruction and demolition.
The inner connection between “Being” and “Dwelling” as Martin Heidegger poetically discovered, we’re in fact all in a state of “thrownness”, inevitably being thrown into, as well as thrown ourselves into the world.
In architectural drawings, “Figure-ground” is often used to indicate the building lots related to the vacant spaces contained by the surrounding environment. As the saying goes, love thy neighbor as thyself, dwelling isn’t constructing on a tabula rasa at one’s will, but always already participating and interfering in a pre-existing world, and it refers to “building relationship” all the time.
Therefore, the drawing of “Figure-ground” represents the distribution and delineation of adjacent relationships, and even more so when it draws attention to our own situation and condition: How Do We Live? How Should We Live?

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《圖底圖：為建築與藝術的家園尋址｜Figure Ground: the becoming-home of art and architecture》

▍展期Date｜2023.03.11－2023.06.11（週一、二休）
▍開幕茶會Opening Event｜2023.04.08（六）14:00
▍地點Location｜he＆she space（新北市淡水區新市三路二段285號1樓）

共同策展Curators｜張文豪、曾哲偉
藝術家Artists｜林安芃、陳世育、張念為、張大仁、彭韋、黃迦勒、徐孟榆、陳孝齊、趙曼君、尹洙竫
主視覺設計Graphic Design｜王東岳
展場設計Exhibition Design｜盧國聰
採訪撰稿Interviewer｜周艾萱、曾哲偉
專文側記Sidelight｜邱靖婷
展覽攝影Photographer｜黃暐程
策展助理Assistants｜周永航、何函瑾
空間總監Managing Director｜陸永富
空間督導Managing Supervisor｜張永蕙

主辦單位Organizor｜打開－當代藝術工作站
協辦單位Co-organizor｜he＆she space
贊助單位Sponsor｜文化部 Ministry of Culture

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