南臺灣很少有能盛名於國際的地理或文化特色，然而鹽水蜂炮卻炸出他激烈而壯麗的國際名聲。參加的人員穿著全套防護裝備站在鞭炮牆前。當蜂箱爆發時，火箭將開始從蜂箱中水平射出。 無論參與者站在哪裡，煙火都會往他們身上產生碰撞，人們冒險加入這個慶典，在衝炮、過炮的洗禮下消災解難，掃除穢氣，祈與來年的運勢與健康。

本次展覽邀請到藝術家陳伯義，為我們帶來《食炮人》的肖像計畫。影像的拍攝手法以Dead-Pan的方式來表現臺灣民俗肖像的典範與類型，企圖在蜂炮現場書寫鹽水人競逐烽火的事件肖像，透過燒灼、碰撞與噴濺的火痕展現腎上腺激素退卻後的食炮臉譜。

開幕茶會｜3/18(六) 18:30-21:00
座談會與談人｜黃建亮 導演


【Chen Po-I Solo Exhibition】Firework Baptist

By global standards, southern Taiwan has few truly exceptional geographical or cultural features. However, it does boast what is probably the most extreme and exciting pyrotechnics event in the world: The Yanshuei Fireworks Festival, also known as the Beehive Rockets Festival. Firework Baptist dressed in full protective gear stand in front of walls of firecrackers. When the beehive erupts, rockets will start to shoot horizontally out of the beehive. Wherever Baptist stand, fireworks will scream like tracer bullets, over their body. They put up with the pain to join in the celebration to pray for future fortune and health.

VT Artsalon present you in May 2019: Firework Baptist portrait photography project as artist Chen Po-I’s Solo Exhibition. This project created portraits for Taiwan ethnography, presenting the models and types of Taiwanese folklore in deadpan photography. Attending the Yanshui Beehive Fireworks Festival in person, artist Chen Po-I tried to record people chasing the fireworks. The traces of fire burning, colliding and splashing reveal a scene of devouring fireworks after the surge of adrenaline.