藝術家:吳權倫 Chuan-Lun Wu
作品名稱:〈你是我的自然〉(You Are My Nature)
作品介紹:
塑膠、玻璃罐|尺寸可變|2011-2014
每個人從小到大都會有過塑膠動物玩具吧。明明原生在幾萬公里遠的異國生物以一種拙劣的、簡化過的造型填補了我們的獵奇慾,從小引導者身為萬物之靈的你想像一個合乎文明的烏托邦;當然也有可能你只是覺得動物都好可愛。他們有些材質不那麼好的還會帶著好像有毒的塑膠氣味;活體動物混合著草木糞尿的原始氣息也許都還比較好聞。但那好像才是屬於我們環境的味道-現實的味道。
這一批玩具是來自大陸工廠的瑕疵商品,塗裝粗劣或是因為被擠壓變形根本無法站立。我將塑料視為一塊未經雕琢的大理石,以眼睛為座標刻出他們底下的臉,這過程是全然的減去,然而就結果而言反到像是將一張違和的面孔額外加了上去。
雖然你不人不獸,但你可能是我的自然。
Plastic, Glass jar|size variable|2011-2014
Everyone must have his or her own plastic animal. The roughly simplified exotic animals filled our senses of curiosity, and guided you – the intelligent part of the universe ‑ to imagining a civilized utopia. Or you simply like their cuteness. Some of them are made of poor quality plastic smells like toxic. Even the wild scents combined with living animals, excrements, and plants might not be worse. However the plastic smell seems to be the smell which belongs to our environment ‑ a smell of reality.
Those toys are flawed products from the factories in China. They are covered with rough paintings and out of shape. I took those plastic toys as a not yet carved marble and set eyes as starting point to carve out faces. The process is erasing. However in the end it seems that I added a new strange faces on them.
You are neither a human nor an animal, but you may be my nature.