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陳沁昕

Tap Chan

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陳沁昕的作品多以裝置、錄像及雕塑的形式呈現。陳氏熱衷鑽研虛構與真實之間的模糊界限,探索日常生活中有關邊緣性和二元性的觀念,從而在作品中創造出一個不確定的物理和心理空間。 作品常用並置的手法將一對相似的物體置於一個場景內,展開一種對視覺現實的多面性的積極思索,以隱喻、戲仿、幻想和想象的方式把宏觀和微觀的宇宙結合在一起。她喜歡捕捉、改變和闡述由精神和情感破裂引起和經歷的近乎無意識的狀態。 陳氏於2012年獲得澳洲皇家墨爾本理工大學藝術文學士(主修雕塑),於 2014 年獲得香港浸會大學視覺藝術學院視覺藝術文學碩士學位。

Tap Chan’s practice spans installation, video and sculpture. Probing the ambiguous boundaries between fiction and reality, Chan explores the ideas of liminality and duality embedded in daily life and fabricates a physical and ideological space of uncertainty in her works. Often juxtaposing a pair of similar objects in one setting, her works evince an active meditation on the multifaceted nature of the visual reality, bringing together both macro and micro universes with metaphors, parodies, fantasies, and imagination. She is interested in grasping, translating, and articulating the near unconscious state induced by and experienced within psychic and emotional ruptures. Chan received her BFA in Sculpture from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in 2012 and an MA in Visual Arts from Hong Kong Baptist University in 2014.

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迷失珍珠

Lost in Pearls

這個雙頻道影像作品取材自香港多年來公認的海底寶庫——珍珠。香港的珍珠捕撈業可以追溯至公元963年五代十國時期,根據《大德南海志》一書所載,香港曾有十三個地點以盛產珍珠貝母為名,包括大埔、後海灣、龍鼓灘、青螺角和荔枝莊等。然而,至1950年代末,一度繁榮的珍珠捕撈業在海水質素惡化和海洋污染的情況下日漸息微。 《迷失珍珠》從連鎖反應裝置的概念中獲得靈感,以珍珠取代鋼珠,在錯綜複雜的場景中自由穿梭,展開奇異的幻想旅程。影片色彩鮮明、光影對比強烈,讓人聯想起1980年代的電影美學,將珍珠及其宿主——牡蠣或扇貝刻畫成在城市中遊走的神秘異生物。在影片尾聲,珍珠滑落污水渠,彰顯藝術家對這些珍寶迭失的哀悼。

This double-channelled video responds to pearls, a gift from nature that has long been regarded as the treasure of the seas in Hong Kong. The pearl fishing industry in Hong Kong traces its roots back to A.D.963 during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. According to the documented accounts in the early treatise Dade Nanhai Zhi (大德南海志), there were 13 locations known for their abundance of pearl mussels in Hong Kong, including Tai Po, Deep Bay, Lung Kwu Tan, Tsing Luo Kok and Lai Chi Chong. However, the once-thriving pearl industry faced a decline when the quality of seawater deteriorated and pollution became prevalent in the late 1950s.

Lost in Pearls plays with the concept of a chain reaction machine and transforms it into a captivating artwork. Instead of using steel balls, pearls are employed to embark on a strange and unusual journey fuelled by imagination. Vivid lighting reminiscent of 1980s film aesthetics renders pearls and their hosts, the oysters or scallops, as enigmatic and alien creatures in the city. Towards the end of the video, pearls descend into the sewage system, signifying and lamenting the loss of these cherished treasures of nature in the human world.

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