「野性的吶喊」為西班牙藝術家邵曉露(Lourdes Salcedo Tavira)所舉辦的2015年最新個展。邵曉露出生於西班牙，目前居住於台灣。自兒時起，邵曉露就展現渾然天成的藝術細胞，多年來皆以繪畫、塗鴉的方式來表現各種生命經驗引發的感受與情緒，熱愛在藝術世界中自由表達想法。

近年來，人與動物細微的差異引起她濃厚的興趣，並且觀察到人類社會中角色分工的失序現象。我們是否在自己和他人身上看見陌生、異化，所有野性動物所具備的無情特質？面對今日多元的社會與複雜的人際關係，恐懼與焦慮激發出人類何等原始的獸性。動物是我們「最近的遠親」，是世界上與我們最相近的物種。儘管人類仍有其獨特處，然而，社會環境的變遷是否扼殺了我們和動物間的相異之處？我們自身的存在與動物間的複雜性的確引人入勝，但我們該做的並不僅止於欣賞而已。

在創作上，邵曉露運用冷靜卻大膽、鮮豔的色調，加上其獨特敏銳的藝術語彙，巧妙地傳遞了美和憐憫的訊息，以藝術創造一個因著盼望而得以喘息的空間，表達出動物與人類間時而野蠻的關係。

邵曉露將藉著在采泥藝術所舉辦的「野性的吶喊」個展，探索人類與其他物種間的關係，以及我們如何以個人的方式與他們聯繫。她希望藉由裝置與繪畫的結合，為觀眾營造一種趣味的看展方式，重新審視「動物」如何作為人類的「他者」，捕捉我們的自然野性存在本質。

“Humanimal”（動物-人）這自創的縮寫字有一體兩面的含義，就我們人類的行為表現來看，我們仍然是動物。

Humanimal is Lourdes Salcedo Tavira’s 2015 solo exhibition. Tavira is a young Spanish artist whose artistic creativity was sparked at an early age. Over the years she has created a lot of drawings and sketches to depict her feelings and emotions from different life experiences.

Captivated by a world where she can freely express her thoughts, she recently has been fascinated by observing the thin line in the space which divides humans and animals, and a sense of disorder as to which part is played by whom in our society. Are we seeing all the heartless wild animal nature, strange and alien in ourselves—and others? To what extend might our own animal nature, which comes to the surface when confronted by fear and anxiety, reflect our relationships with our own diverse society? Animals are our “near abroad,” aspects of the world that are the closest to us as a species. However, have evolution and growth killed our significant existing differences from animals? Appreciating the complexity of our existence and our animal brethren is, of course, inviting. But more is required, too.

Tavira’s use of calm but powerful and vibrant colors, together with her unique and very sensitive artistic line of dialogue, skillfully convey beauty and compassion—a breathing space for hope—, in the art of showing the sometimes savage human/animal relationship.

The exhibition, Humanimal, at Chini Gallery will explore how Tavira represents and questions our relationship with other species and how we connect with them in a personal way. She hopes to create a playful way of viewing her paintings through the integration with installations, to reevaluate the acknowledgment on how “the animal” has functioned as the other to “the human,” in order to capture the essence of our wild natural existence.

The “Humanimal“ contraction is two sides of the same kind. And we humans are mostly animals, still.