南‧胡弗基金會
Nan Hoover Foundation

1975-1976, 16:36mins

簡介/Synopsis

1975年的「光中的運動」是南‧胡弗的早期作品之一，也正代表她放棄繪畫改從事錄像藝術的轉變。她利用光線與陰影的效果，以及聽起來有威脅感、陰沉的雜音背景處理後，我們本來以為很熟悉的人體部分，像是臉、手背或手指被揭露成總總的錯覺形象，幾近看不出它們本來的形狀，而變成獨立的影像，最終成為令人毛骨悚然的風景。
就在今天這個影像氾濫的時代，胡弗的錄影短片要求我們以一種我們不熟悉的理解方式去看待事物：放慢觀看，目光緩慢地漫遊在畫面之上。

“Movements in Light”from 1975 is one of Nan Hoover’s early works and marks her shift from painting to video. By means of light and shadow effects, as well as a threateningly sombre-sounding soundtrack, the illusion of the human body as a supposedly well-known and familiar terrain is revealed once more. In this process, individual parts of the body, like the face, the back of a hand or a finger appear almost disembodied and, in the last analysis, emancipate themselves to become eerie landscapes.
Precisely in this contemporary age flooded with images, Hoover’s video demands to be received in a manner apparently strange to us: the downtempo gaze, where eyes wander slowly across the screen.