綿延的棲居

展覽從一個提問出發：在世界的流變中，我們如何安身立命? 在時間的不可逆推移，每一個意識與感知繁複交會的轉瞬，重組著對當前時空的理解。柏格森的「綿延」主張事物存在著無限的角度與無盡的片刻，而創作者正是攬住某個流逝中的碎片或物質，揉合其意識澆灌至作品中，為此，時間之流在那個片刻留下掌紋。本展集結三位國內外藝術家，他們將其與周遭環境的感知關係轉譯為創作，其作品因此可被視為某種還原時空的線索。

在台灣，以抽象繪畫探討環境生態議題，葉竹盛是第一人，從揭竿而起的〈秩序與非秩序〉，過渡到轉為內省的〈心靈環保〉，至近年卸下了議題式的陳抗，以時間作為序列，回歸安居生活寫意的純粹表現。本展展陳葉竹盛橫跨三十年各系列代表性畫作，鼓勵著反向的觀看—在畫布上每個烙印的符號、材料，與筆觸、顏料的游走軌跡中，領會藝術家在時光流變中境隨心轉，將與環境的對話關係凝鍊收合至創作表現上的真切歷程。

首度來台展出的芬蘭藝術家Josefina Nelimarkka，整合哲學、修辭學與大氣科學的向度，試圖表現時間與存有的實體。〈Kairos〉系列包含巨幅絹絲裝置、繪畫與雕塑，紀錄一座森林四季的天候更迭，形構漫長過程中物質的流轉風景，詩意地展現經過的存有時刻。而懸浮微粒除了指認歷史更挾帶著預示，〈雲湧〉將桃園過去一年的空氣粒子數據可視化，實為了超越視覺與當下時刻的表層，將意識投射至氣候變遷下無可測的未來。

擅於在各語言形式間轉化經驗與記憶的劉致宏，在《聲音地誌》系列作品中顯現的「聲紋」，僅是與環境互動的起始痕跡，如同其發出的波長擴張著閱聽者對一個地方更深邃的感知。此次於桃園的創作計畫，更專注挖掘特定地區在族群歷史、產業生態的形塑歷程，或以抽象 / 具象素描線條編寫，或將故事篇章的聲音肌理轉印成雕塑，沉澱了大歷史與瑣碎但迷人的過程片段，再一一解構(建構)對於原始聲音與地方樣貌的想像。

這些獨特的印跡除還原時間的歷程，也以清澈的意識回應所處的環境，因而得出一個個豐富有機的生命過程的整體圖像，當我們看著這些時間的造物，真切地意識到這些靈光棲居的所在，那樣的停格縫隙，或許才是當代人類得以立身之處。

Time Resides

The exhibition starts from a question: How do we settle down in the world's endless evolution? In the irreversible change of time, every consciousness and perceptual complex rendezvous, reorganizing the understanding of the current time and space. Bergson's " durée " advocates that there are infinite angles and endless moments in things, and the artist captures the piece or material in a certain passing moment, and mix its consciousness into the works. For this reason, the flow of time leaves palm prints in that moment. This exhibition brings together three local and foreign artists who translate their perceived relationships with their surroundings into artworks, and their work can therefore be seen as a clue to the restoration of time and space.

In Taiwan, Yeh Chu-Sheng is the first person to explore environmental and ecological issues with his abstract paintings, from “Order and Disorder” to the introspective "Eco-Spirit", and to recent years, he discards cautious protection of issue, with time as a sequence, returning to the pure performance of living life. This exhibition presents Yeh Chu-Sheng’s artworks that cover 30 years of representative paintings of various series, encouraging the reverse viewing—to understand the artist's movement in the trajectory of each branded symbol, material, and brushstrokes and paints on the canvas. Change the situation in the middle of the heart, and the relationship between the dialogues with the environment will be merged into the real process of creative performance.

The Finnish artist Josefina Nelimarkka, who exhibited for the first time in Taiwan, integrated the philosophies, rhetoric and atmospheric sciences, trying to express time and existence. The "Kairos" series consists of huge silk installations, paintings and sculptures. It records the changing seasons of a forest, and the material flow in the long process of the structure, poetically showing the moments of existence. In addition to the identification of the history of suspended particles, “Cloud Momentum” visualizes the air particle data of Taoyuan in the past year, in order to surpass the surface of the visual and current moments, and to project consciousness into an unpredictable future under climate change.

Liu Chih-hung, who is good at transforming experience and memory among various language forms, whose "Sound Print" that appears in the series " Sound Geography" is only the starting trace of interaction with the environment, as its wavelength spreads to the readers, that is, a deeper perception of a place. The project in Taoyuan focuses on mining the history of ethnic groups and industrial ecology in specific areas, either by writing them in abstract/figurative sketch lines, or transferring the sound texture of story chapters into pottery/ceramics, which precipitates a great history. With trivial but fascinating process fragments, one by one deconstructs /constructs the imagination of the original sound and the local appearance.

In addition to restoring the passage of time, these unique imprints respond to the environment with clear consciousness, thus resulting in an complete image of a rich and organic life process. When one look at these creations of times, one will be truly aware of the places where the aura resides, such a gap may be the place where modern human beings can stand.


藝術家座談｜11/2（六）下午三時至五時
出席藝術家｜Josefina Nelimarkka(約瑟芬娜．聶利馬勒卡)/ 劉致宏