The visions of Karma
古老的愿景
(2024)
4k影像，黑白，15’35”，2024
音乐：司日纳·拉木加
4k, single channel video, B&W，15’35”，2024
Music: ལྷ་མོ་སྐྱབས། Bone Lhamokyap
近年，艺术家陈萧伊多次在横断山脉探寻高山深处的海子，自然中无以言表的万物，指向了某种原初的存在——不在此时此刻、不是现在，无法被语言描述、也无法被命名，一种未曾断裂的、完整的、却消失的风景。延续着她对于地质时间与尺度的探索，试图通过在自然中学习的“语言”，将生命经验锚定在了某个特殊的时空中，让影像去建构并显现关于原初坐标的“世界”。
影像展开了一段虚实交错的时空旅程，由追寻着白海螺的线索作为生态记忆的牵引，来贴近大地生命的叙事。全片由途中拍摄的静态照片组成，摄影对她而言是一种超越语言的语言，拥有对消逝却存在的事物，重新召唤的能力。在照片、记忆与想象的维度中，她借用媒介的魔力，重新以有限性与超越性的轴线，绘制一幅消失的风景，试图从充满浩瀚与寂静的图像中找到隐形的道路，让如谜的“世界”得以敞开和显现。她的创作，致力于从古老的事物中，发掘更为广义的生命力，以超越人类时空的视角来寻获存在潜在的能动，抵抗或结构性地超越今日世界。
影像展开了一段虚实交错的时空旅程，由追寻着白海螺的线索作为生态记忆的牵引，来贴近大地生命的叙事。全片由途中拍摄的静态照片组成，摄影对她而言是一种超越语言的语言，拥有对消逝却存在的事物，重新召唤的能力。在照片、记忆与想象的维度中，她借用媒介的魔力，重新以有限性与超越性的轴线，绘制一幅消失的风景，试图从充满浩瀚与寂静的图像中找到隐形的道路，让如谜的“世界”得以敞开和显现。她的创作，致力于从古老的事物中，发掘更为广义的生命力，以超越人类时空的视角来寻获存在潜在的能动，抵抗或结构性地超越今日世界。
In recent years, artist Chen Xiaoyi has ventured multiple times into the heart of the Hengduan Mountains in search of high mountain lakes. The indescribable essence of nature, pointing to some origin existence—not of this moment, not now, unable to be captured in language, nor named—a continuous, intact yet vanished landscape. Continuing her exploration of geological time and scales, she seeks, through the "language" learned in nature, to anchor life experiences within a special spatiotemporal dimension, constructing and revealing a "world" of original coordinates.
Her video unfolds a journey where reality and illusion intertwine, guided by clues of the white conch as ecological memory, approaching the narrative of the earth’s life. The work is composed of still photographs taken along the way. For her, photography is a language beyond words, possessing the power to resummon things faded yet existing. Within the dimensions of photographs, memory, and imagination, she wields the medium's enchantment, redrawing the axis of finitude and transcendence, sketching a vanished landscape, also endeavoring to find the invisible paths within images vast and silent, allowing the enigmatic 'world' to unfold and reveal itself. Her works are dedicated to unearth a broader vitality from the ancient, with a perspective beyond human temporality to discover the inherent dynamism of being, resisting or structurally transcending the world of today.
Her video unfolds a journey where reality and illusion intertwine, guided by clues of the white conch as ecological memory, approaching the narrative of the earth’s life. The work is composed of still photographs taken along the way. For her, photography is a language beyond words, possessing the power to resummon things faded yet existing. Within the dimensions of photographs, memory, and imagination, she wields the medium's enchantment, redrawing the axis of finitude and transcendence, sketching a vanished landscape, also endeavoring to find the invisible paths within images vast and silent, allowing the enigmatic 'world' to unfold and reveal itself. Her works are dedicated to unearth a broader vitality from the ancient, with a perspective beyond human temporality to discover the inherent dynamism of being, resisting or structurally transcending the world of today.
Spoken Leaves 言 叶, 2024
Exhibition view, Matèria, Roma.
Courtesy the artist and Matèria, Roma.
Photo by Roberto Apa
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