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展覽名稱 | 熱身與超越-王喆個展

Exhibition | Warm up and Soar beyond Solo Exhibition by Jenny Zhe Chang

展覽時間 Date | 2013/01/18-03/03

開幕記者會 Opening Reception| 2013/01/18 14:00

展覽地點 Venue | MOCA Studio

門票 Admission | 免費，Free

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旅居澳洲的華裔藝術家王喆，創作從生活經驗和日常物件出發，

擅長透過現實事物的變異組合，

來建構新的閱讀文本並賦予抽象的觀念或象徵的意義。

此次在台北當代藝術館舉行的【熱身與超越】個展，

同時觀照當代人面對生活/環境/社會的急速變化時，

內心不斷產生的猶豫恐懼與夢幻期許，

進而探究伴隨吾人生活想望和生命成長必須迎接/克服的種種挑戰。

本次展出作品主要取材自競賽用的幾種運動器材，

包括跨欄賽跑的欄杆、乒乓球拍、棒球棍等，

經過藝術家的加工改造之後，

原本標準化的欄杆、球拍、球棒等各自有了不同的外觀造型，

彼此之間也隱約存在著一種規格變化或形體變奏的邏輯，

原先內在於各運動本身的競賽/遊戲雙重意涵，

以及所有競賽幕後的社會運作系統等，

也因為這些運動器具的獨立凸顯，和連結展示方式，

而得到了擴充的意義和聯想的空間。

【熱身與超越】 展，藉由七組空間裝置作品，

將當代館的實驗展場虛擬為不同的競賽場域，

類比了運動遊戲和現實生活中都得面臨的競爭與挑戰，

如果說「靜」是當下的暖身準備狀態，「動」便是自我超越的具體實踐，

在這展覽中，藝術家構設了靜態的物件、競賽系統、環境氛圍，

穿梭在這些不同物件/符號群組之間的觀眾，

演示了真正能動的主體－人和物之間的動靜對照和平衡關係，

人與人之間的競合狀態和關係網路，

現代人所承受的精神壓力與自我超越的期許等

－毋寧也正是這些物件展示和運動劇 場所要指涉和詮釋的。

Jenny Zhe Chang is a Chinese artist that lives in Australia. Inspired by everyday experiences and things, Chang specializes in transforming and integrating reality to reconstruct new ways of reading and forming abstract concepts or symbolic meanings. Warm up and Soar beyond Solo Exhibition by Jenny Zhe Chang at MOCA Taipei is an exhibition that focuses on modern day people’s internal hesitations, fears, and also dreams and anticipations when faced with rapid changes in today’s life, environment, and society. Moreover, with people’s visions about life and along with life’s developments, the exhibition conducts further investigations on the different challenges that people may face and need to overcome.

Artworks included in this exhibition are mainly based on competitive sports equipment, such as hurdle fences, table tennis rackets, and baseball bats. These objects are transformed by the artist, and as these previously standardized athletic items take on different looks, shifts in standards and variations on forms seem to emerge as conventional logic is altered. The original duo meanings embodied by sports competitions/games and the social mechanism operated behind these competitive scenes are emphasized individually by these sporting goods, as extended meaning and imaginative potential are brought about by the interrelated approach opted for this exhibition.

Warm up and Soar beyond is comprised of 7 spatial installation works, and it transforms MOCA Studio into various competitive arenas, as competitions and challenges one would face in sports and also in real life are simulated. If “stillness” is analogous to the state of warming up, “mobility” is than a concrete actualization of self-transcendence. In the exhibition, stilled objects, competition system, surrounding ambiance are designed and constructed by the artist to allow the audience to wander amidst these different objects/symbols and to take on the role as the truly mobile subject. Issues of contrast between stillness and mobility; balanced relationship between people and objects; competitive states and networks between people; and modern day people’s internal pressure and hope for self-transcendence are what this exhibition of objects and sports theater is referencing to and portraying.

* 資料來源: 台北當代藝術館 提供