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Travelling Home

images captured with a phone camera, printed on slides, mounted on slide viewers, 2011

 

 

London, SE14 6EA

London, E2 0LT

Paris, 75011

London, SE14 6EA

Singapore, 560620

London, SE14 6NZ

Paris, 75004

London, SE14 6AT

London, E1W 2RN

London, SE14 6EA

London, E2 0LT

Paris, 75011

London, SE14 6EA

Singapore, 560620

London, SE14 6NZ

Paris, 75004

London, SE14 6AT

London, E1W 2RN

Exhibition Installation

Exhibition Installation

本創作藉由描述在記憶中所住過的地方,進而探討「家」與城市間的關係。由於自身生活經驗,對「家」的記憶已流動化,以身體為座標的空間記憶,取代了個人的時間記憶。

創作手法為利用現成物(ready-made)娃娃屋模型的重複排列、與Google Streetview三維空間互動影像的並置,構圖為「記憶中住過的家」。「記憶」並非靜置的過去,而是一連串的篩選過程、是靈活變動的存在。

利用手機相機的拍攝,以過程中得到更多自由度,以「進入」架設在電腦螢幕前的小模型空間,並藉此探討攝影科技發展的過程、和記憶流動性間的關聯。

作品的呈現方式,則是將影像印製於135幻燈片,放置於幻燈機(slide-viewer)中。如此一來,影像記憶再度被轉化為物件,並利用展場空間製造「窺探」的氛圍,擴大觀者與作品之間的互動與想像。

As an international student living in London, I do not have a permanent place to live. My ‘contract’ with that intimate space, home, has always been decided by the schedule of the academic year. Intentionally and accidentally, I have moved more than twelve times in the past six years. Every time I had to perform the task of packing and moving, I meditated on what I could really bring with me. How could I pack the memories of this private space, my base in the city for that period?

This project has explored the ideas of familiarity and foreignness in different cities:

First, I searched for the addresses at which I had lived on Google StreetView, using the interactive software to find the image that corresponded to my memories of the specific locations.

Second, I placed the constructed miniature interior spaces in front of a laptop screen, and photographed the set with the camera phone. The process of constructing the set gave me a chance to scrutinise my memories, and the use of the camera phone gave me more freedom to explore my relation to the miniature spaces.

Third, the same elements (furniture, personal belongings…) were staged and arranged differently in each image. This process worked as a filter to purify my personal perception of the home(s).

Finally, I printed the photographic images on slides, and mounted them on slide-viewers, calling to mind the idea of the souvenir.

The purpose of constructing the miniature settings was to deliberately invoke the flash of memory, and to disturb the fixity of time and space. By constructing and photographing the miniature settings, I have finally packed and moved the home(s) with me.

 

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