失真的圖層 The distorted layers
童品元 個展
Tung Pin-Yuan Solo Exhibition
▎時間：2023/7/8（六）- 8/6（日）
▎開幕：2023/7/8（六）下午 15:00
▎地點：應力空間 Soil Space _700 台南市中西區民權路二段64巷56號3F
▎藝術家：童品元
▎主辦單位：應力空間Soil Space 、土星工作室 Tu Xing Studio
▎贊助單位：國家文化藝術基金會
近年持續進行的創作是以喪傷的生命經驗作為基底，進而延展出如章節式的系列作品。內容囊括了對生命的思索、材質的討論以及情感的書寫，對於消逝、未知的感受以儀式性的手法進行探究與對話，作品從家族相簿裡遺留的照片作為切入點，思考生命的延續以及留存，並對記憶進行追溯。使用陶瓷作為主要創作媒材，試圖將其材質性多元的樣態植入作品之中，並結合影像的語彙，將這些心靈的空缺轉換為感性的物質形式，作為創作的實踐。
《失真的圖層》此檔展覽的發想是跟一口浸濕的紙盒一起揭開的，2022年我將大量的時間投入整理家中即將成為工作室的空間，原本的空間存放了一箱箱萬年的家族雜物，箱內囊括了閨閣日記、書信、相片、磁帶，我如考古般一一掘起、閱讀、分類，透過整理也因此再次經驗了家族的脈絡與故事。
在一個受潮的紙盒中我發現了一疊壞照片，濕氣侵入相紙讓表面的影像如壁癌般脆化、分離，在拾起的當下像雪花那樣飛落消散，而有的則是被水模糊，攪成另一種神秘姿態，作為追悼媒介的紙質影像變成了無力召喚記憶的屍體，雖然極度可惜，但隱約可見的人影、些許沒被水侵蝕的局部卻又強烈的散發著勿忘我的呼喚，而這些感性的表象促使我再次凝視鬆動的記憶縫隙，將消散的狀態視覺化成此次展出的作品。
形式上我挪用了當替代役時期每日例行清理碎紙的經驗，當時覺得細條狀紙質上殘存的訊息與影像有著耐人尋味卻無力閱讀的魅力，我試圖將這樣感受植入作品的視覺中，將條狀的陶片集結成平面，再印上家族遺影，燒成過後的細條因為收縮、拉扯、斷裂，成了一種脆弱、消散的視覺語彙，也透過製作過程的勞動，再次思考記憶存在的本質與樣態。
或許終將消失的討論並不是全然負面的喪志心態，而是因此思考在消失之前的短暫時光，該如何經驗與珍惜，若將喪傷的情緒比喻為心中一個被鑿出的大洞，我試圖找尋的並不是一個填平的方法，而是深入洞中，像是探險式的去挖掘它所帶給我最真摯的感受，並且進行爬梳。而此展覽試圖帶給觀者的是我作為生者面對喪傷經驗與記憶消散的獨特感性，同時也是對於陶瓷材質的運用及思考，希望觀者能在場域中感受到具有溫度與時間感的呈現。
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In recent years, the ongoing creation is based on the life experience of loss, and then extended into a series of chapter-like works. The content includes thoughts on life, discussion of materials and writing of emotions, and ritualistic inquiry and dialogue on the feelings of fading and unknown. Using ceramics as the main medium of creation, the work attempts to implant its material diversity into the work, and combines the vocabulary of images to transform these spiritual vacancies into sensual material forms as a practice of creation.
In 2022, I devoted a lot of time to organizing the space in my home that would soon become my studio. The original space was filled with boxes of ten thousand years of family miscellaneous items, including family diaries, letters, photos, and tapes. I was able to experience the family history and stories again through organizing.
I found a pile of bad photos in a damp paper box. The moisture invaded the paper and made the images on the surface brittle and separate like wall cancer, falling and dissipating like snowflakes when I picked them up, while some of them were blurred by water and stirred into another mysterious form. These sensual appearances prompt me to gaze again at the loosened gaps of memory and visualize the dissipated state into the works in this exhibition.
The form of the work is based on my experience of cleaning up shredded paper every day when I was a substitute soldier. I felt that the messages and images remaining on the fine paper had an intriguing but unreadable charm. Through the labor of the production process, we can think again about the nature and form of memory existence.
Perhaps the discussion of the eventual disappearance is not an entirely negative and demoralizing one, but rather a reflection on how to experience and cherish the short period of time before it disappears. If the emotion of loss is likened to a large hole that has been dug out in my heart, what I am trying to find is not a way to fill it up, but rather to go deeper into the hole, as if exploring the most sincere feelings it brings to me, and to crawl through it. This exhibition attempts to bring to the viewer my unique sensibility as a living person facing the experience of bereavement and the dissipation of memory, as well as the use and reflection of ceramic materials, hoping that the viewer can feel the presentation of temperature and sense of time in the field.
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文｜應力空間 Soil Space 主理人 彭奕軒
火作為轉換的節點，「火來了，快跑！」，同樣的在每個人可能在過去或未來都曾經驗過的一句話。每當看到藝術家透過轉化藝術形式去談論此事，都會產生強烈的感覺去思考個人經驗史中的一些與親人相處的片刻。
此次很榮幸應力空間邀請到藝術家童品元，〈失真的圖層〉最新個展發表，童品元過去作品聚焦於家庭、親情、消逝性等方向，「如果相紙上的影像象徵了一個更長的生命保存及延續，那我是否可以透過物質的轉換，讓影像更接近永恆...」，藝術家選擇透過記憶、影像、距離等轉換出藝術創作的意義。
藝術家也提及他在當替代役期間，單位工作正式銷毀相關紙本文件（碎紙機），也轉化於這次的形式中，看到許多條狀拼接的影像質地，並結合個人家庭歷史中留存的斑剝照片，老照片本體材料因老化脆弱不堪。品元將「陶瓷永恆之方位」與「個人家庭系譜之牽繫」連結再一起，絲狀拼疊的家庭影像，有些是獨照肖像、家庭合照等，提出脆弱與永恆之命題。
「火來了，快跑！」在當下，我們都理解了一些生命樣態，同樣以陶瓷媒材的不可逆之動態特性，收縮、移動、扭曲、龜裂、燒結。藝術家將透過家庭影像系譜中的採集，逐漸在可能的絲狀路徑探索。
Fire is the node of transition, "Fire is coming, run! " is the same phrase that everyone may have experienced in the past or in the future. Whenever I see an artist talk about this through transformative art forms, I get a strong feeling to think about some moments in my personal experience with my loved ones.
This time, we are honored to invite artist Tun Pin-yuan to present his latest solo exhibition, ' The Distorted Layers'. Tun Pin-yuan's past works focus on the direction of family, intimacy, and fading. The artist chose to transform the meaning of art creation through memory, image and distance.
The artist also mentions that during his military service, his unit officially destroyed the paper documents (shredder), which is also transformed in this form. Pin-yuan links "the eternal orientation of ceramics" and "the connection of personal family genealogy" together, and the filigreed family images, some of which are solo portraits and family photos, raise the theme of fragility and eternity.
"Fire is coming, run!" In the present moment, we all understand some life forms, also with the irreversible dynamic characteristics of ceramic media, shrinking, moving, twisting, cracking, and sintering. The artist will gradually explore the possible filamentary paths through the collection in the family image collection.
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