VIEW观看 | 第二届天水摄影双年展邀请展——成国琴（中国）策展作品

第二届影像丝绸之路——天水摄影双年展，即将于2018年6月18日在天水市会展中心开幕。本届双年展邀请展由观看艺术空间作为策展机构策划，由德国、法国、美国、中国和香港等国家和地区的著名策展人组成策展团队，邀请了国内外85位知名艺术家的900余幅（组）作品参加展览。

The Second Image of Silk Road-Tianshui Photography Biennale will be held on June 18, 2018 at the Tianshui City Convention and Exhibition Center. View Art Space is the curatorial institution of the biennale invitational exhibition unit. A curatorial team has been set up by famous curators from Germany, France, the United States, China and Hong Kong. This exhibition invited 85 well-known artists at home and abroad more than 900 (set) works to attend.

第二届天水摄影双年展邀请展

精神之旅｜A SPIRITUAL JOURNEY

策展人｜CURATOR

成国琴( 中国)｜CATHERINE CHENG（CHINA）

艺术家 & 作品｜ARTIST & WORKS

 丽莎·罗斯( 美国)《丝路上的朝圣》

A PILGRIMAGE ON THE SILK ROAD Lisa Ross (America)

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策展前言｜CURATORIAL PREFACE

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精神之旅

——关于丽莎• 罗斯的影像作品《丝路上的朝圣》

在数码科技如此发达的今天，摄影究竟意味着什么？摄影家格里·卡普卢金（Gary Kapluggin）说：摄影是我的第二语言。

丽莎·罗斯回答：摄影可以让我精神穿越。

丽莎·罗斯出生在纽约布鲁克林一个世袭犹太家族，母亲是画家父亲是作家。丽莎从小就出入美术馆和剧院，12 岁时她第一次接触照相机，透过镜头观察和按动快门的霎那间，她找到了人生的激情和语言。 独特的天份让她很早就创建了暗房工作室，13 岁时她推开走近一位老人的世界，开始了大屠杀幸存者肖像摄影，并用录音机记录他们讲述的故事。青春期的丽莎视摄影为身份象征的一部分，摄影让她有收入，她在商业摄影领域已经开始工作。然而，成长中的丽莎却发现自己在性别取向方面有问题，尤其与其他女孩子迥异时，她陷入极度痛苦。摄影成为她的生命支柱，她以此来表达自我情感。20 岁时她创建了一个慈善摄影项目，主要为了帮助在纽约的青少年高危群体，包括同性恋和被家庭抛弃的无家可归者。无论是借助相机还是在暗房工作或者是准备展览，在这里摄影成为很多青年的疗伤过程，他们可以打开心扉说出自己的故事。

在纽约，丽莎拍摄了大量有关社区、家庭和朋友摄影作品后，她决定离开这个熟悉的地方去寻找创作有意义的作品。首站她选择了北非摩洛哥，独自穿越大沙漠、面对宽广辽阔而寂静无声的大自然，她被深深吸引，她也被当地人的善良所感动，无论是在集市还是在路上遇到的人家。

从哥伦比亚大学获得艺术硕士学位后，丽莎重返撒哈拉和西奈半岛，这既是她的创作之旅也是精神探索之旅。她找到了自己的摄影观念，并称之为《自然的肖像》, 纪录瞬间即逝的黑白影像作品。之前她的肖像作品都是试图传达与人之间的亲密关系，而非隔阂。这与她母亲肖像绘画和父亲讲故事的影响分不开。

2002 年丽莎有机会第一次来到中国，她没有去那些大都市而是直接坐火车去了新疆，作为古丝绸之路，那里有浩瀚无际的大沙漠，与此同时，她走近了当地人们的生活和信仰，对他们的的历史和祭祀活动产生浓厚兴趣，她的创作从此由胶片转为数码、由黑白转为彩色。他们的朝圣之地对于丽莎来说是有色彩，那些手工制作和绘制的旗帜色彩鲜艳地飘扬在沙漠中。水平线的沙漠与垂直悬挂的标记之间的对比，在丽莎看来就是信仰的表现。

之后八年她多次回到这个地区，拍摄了大量具有价值的艺术作品，用镜头传达人们如何面对生与死。这些作品的图像集文化、信仰和抽象艺术为一体，其独特的意境引入沉思；它既是艺术家对人们信仰的敬仰，同时也折射出摄影人的人文关怀精神和对人性的悲悯之情。

摄影并不给予答案，而是提出问题；丽莎的作品实质上提出了生与死循环的终极问题。艺术家通过一次又一次的体验和创作，不断寻找着答案。

                                              成国琴

                             2018-04-20 于德国埃森

A SPIRITUAL JOURNEY

- A Pilgrimage on the Silk Road, Photographs and Video by Lisa Ross

What photography means to a photographer in today's advanced digital world? Photography is my second language, quoted by Gary Kapluggin.

Photography is spiritual transformation to me, said by Lisa Ross.

Lisa Ross was born in Brooklyn, NY, to a secular Jewish family with a mother who was a painter and father a writer. Lisa was exposed to the arts and theater as a child. At 12 years old, she had chance to use a camera, when she looked through the lens and pushed the shutter release she knew that that moment, she found her life long passion, she found her language. Using her talent and creativity Lisa built a darkroom in her basement and began the journey. At 13 she walked into an old age home on the boardwalk and began to make portraits of Holocaust survivors and had them tell their stories into a tape recorder. As a teenager, photography became part of her identity. She could earn money selling her photographs, and apprenticed with a commercial photographer. Yet, Lisa found herself in great confusion and pain as she realized something was wrong and that she was very different from her friends. She used photography as a life preserver and expressed her feelings through art as she slowly came to terms with her sexuality. Later, in her 20’s she developed a photography program and was funded to work with high risk youth who were struggling gay/lesbian/trans teenagers in New York, often rejected by their families and homeless. Here, photography became a healing process for many youth who could tell their own stories by borrowing cameras, learning to work in the darkroom, and installing exhibitions.

After focusing her photography on life in New York and on her own community, family and friends, Lisa made the decision to leave and see if she could make intimate and meaningful work in a place and with a people that were not her own. She chose North Africa as her first destination and traveled across Morocco. She was consumed by the landscapes, the vast desert and it’s deafening silence, and was moved by people, the market places and the invitations she received to sit and spend time on roadsides, in homes around food and in market places.

Graduating from Columbia University, School of the Arts at with a Masters degree, Ross went back to the Sahara and then Sinai, she was on a creative journey and a spiritual search. Lisa developed her own concept of photography, that she describes as a Portrait of Landscape. Her large black and white mural prints described ephemeral spaces and a timelessness. In the past, she had taken many actual portraits desiring to convey how the camera could bring someone closer, how it could create intimacy, rather than being a shield between herself and others. Perhaps, the influence of her mother's portrait painting and her father’s storytelling were inevitable.

In 2002, Lisa had an opportunity to visit to China. Instead of visiting the modern cities in China she chose to take the slow train directly to Xinjiang. As part of the ancient Silk Road that she read about, she not only indulged herself by the endless desert, but walked into the faith and rituals practiced by the local people, and in time learned about the history of the region. It was at then that Ross’s work shifted from analogue to digital, from black and white to color. Their holy sites spoke to Ross in color. The handmade markers people created and placed in the desert and in the pilgrimage sites were so specifically about color. The contrast between the horizontal starkness of the desert and the verticality of the markers was also significant to Ross who describes these as manifestations of faith.

Lisa continued to return to this region and develop her vision. Over a decade she created valuable photographic and video work, revolving around the liminal spaces in which faith, culture and abstraction meet. A Pilgrimage on the Silk Road leads us to deep contemplation, which reflects not only the artists respect toward their faith, but an affection towards humanity and their belief.

Photography does not give answers, but raises question. The question from Lisa's work is actually about the ultimate issue of human beings and the cycle of life and death. Through each experiment in life again and again, the artist seeks the answer.

                      Written by Catherine Cheng

                      Essen of Germany, April 20th, 2018

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策展人简介｜BIOGRAPHY

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成国琴

独立策展人和艺术顾问

K26 徳中当代艺术交流协会 联合创办人

2011 年至2013 年度北京798 艺术区艺术委员会委员

2013 年连州国际摄影年展优秀策展人奖获得者

2014 年中意双年展策展团队成员负责摄影展

2015 年汉堡电影节中国独立电影策展成员

2016 年德国达姆斯特摄影节特邀策展成员

2017-2018 年与德国“艺术科隆”艺术总监杰拉德合作推出中德当代摄影巡回展，巡回展包括六个中德的美术馆和艺术机构。

曾参与达沃斯论坛艺术展、巴塞尔文化博物馆开幕展、杜塞尔多夫中德当代艺术展和科隆摄影书籍博物馆开幕等国际策展活动，受邀德国、美国驻华使馆策划艺术展，近十年经营画廊经验，为美国、德国、荷兰等多个艺术家个展担任策展人，担任德国私人艺术基金和艺术机构的艺术收藏顾问。

2014 年在天津美术学院和中国传媒公司大学应邀联合讲座（与德国策展人马丁·伦德尔）

CATHERINE CHENG

Independent Curator and Art Consultant

Executive Director China for K26 - the Sino-German Contemporary Art Exchange Association

Member of Directors of 798 Art Committee from year 2011 to 2013

2013 Outstanding Curator in 2013 Lianzhou Foto Fair

2014 Photo Curator for 2014 Sino-Italy Contemporary Art Biennale

2015 Curator for Chinese Independent Film Hamburg Filmfest

2016 & 2018 Darmstadt Foto Tage as contributor for Chinese photographer

2017-2018 Curatorial team for the Contemporary Photo Group Show from China and Germany with road show in six museums in both Germany and China

Participated in art exhibition of 2010 Davos Economic Forum, re-opening of Basel Culture Museum, Sino-German Contemprorary Art Exhibition in Dussordorf and Photobook Museum in Cologne, etc. Nearly ten years gallery operation experience

Guest Curator for German Embassy in 2009-2012, Beijing American Center 2013-2015

Art consultant for the private art fund and institution

2014 Co- lectureship at Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts and Communication University of China with Martin Rendel

丽莎·罗斯( 美国)《丝路上的朝圣》

A PILGRIMAGE ON THE SILK ROAD Lisa Ross (America)

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艺术家简介｜BIOGRAPHY

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丽萨·罗斯于1964 年出生于纽约布鲁克林，现居纽约布朗克斯，获哥伦比亚大学艺术硕士学位、萨拉·劳伦斯学院文学学士学位以及艾德菲大学教育学硕士学位。

罗斯为布朗克斯博物馆“艺术家在集市”项目成员，两度获得萨尔斯堡国际艺术夏令营海沃德奖，为法国马塞跨学科文化遗产修复及保存中心的代理顾问、纽约水磨坊艺术中心驻地艺术家及纽约亚洲文化协会成员。

2006 年以来，罗斯在纽约、苏黎世和伦敦多次举办画廊个人展。2013 年，罗斯首次举办博物馆个人展，并出版著作《活着的圣殿》，出版商为意大利莫纳赛里出版社。罗斯的作品先后在纽约鲁宾艺术博物馆、瑞典摄影博物馆、迪拜Gulf Photo Plus、法国阿尔勒国际摄影节、伦敦东亚与非洲研究学院文莱画廊、加利福尼亚大学伯克利校区、哈佛大学、法国老救济院中心及西雅图亚洲艺术博物馆展出。

罗斯的作品多次被《纽约时报》《纽约客》《纽约杂志》《艺术论坛》《华尔街日报》以及其他纸媒或在线期刊报道，其著作受到《纽约书评》《洛杉矶书评》及《伦敦书评》的好评。

罗斯热爱摄影教学，曾面向纽约高中生设计了摄影教学项目，并执教十年之久。罗斯在纽约哥伦比亚大学和帕森斯设计学院教授本科生。

Lisa Ross was born in Brooklyn, New York 1964 and currently lives in the Bronx, New York.Ross received and MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University, a BA from Sarah Lawrence College and holds a Masters Degree in Education from Adelphi University.

Ross is a Fellow of the Bronx Museum of Arts AIM Program, a two time recipient of The

Hayward prize for the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts, Salzburg. Ross received a commission from CICRP (Centre Interdisciplinaire de Conservation et Restauration du Patrimoine) in Marseilles, France. Ross was granted Artist in Residence at The Watermill Center, New York and is a fellow of The Asian Cultural Council, New York.

Ross has had numerous solo gallery exhibitions in New York, Zurich and London since 2006. In 2013 Ross had her first museum exhibition and a book publication by the Italian publishers, Monacelli Press, titled “Living Shrines”. Ross’s exhibitions, include The Rubin Museum of Art, NY; Fotografiska Museum, Sweden; Gulf Photo Plus, Dubai, Les Rencontres d’Arles, France; Brunei Gallery, SOAS, London; University of California, Berkeley; Harvard University; La Vielle Charite, France; Seattle Asian Art Museum, Seattle. 

Ross’s exhibitions received multiple reviews in The New York Times, The New Yorker, New York Magazine, Artforum, The Wall Street Journal and many other print and online journals. Her book has received enthusiastic responses in The New York Review of Books, The Los Angeles Review of Books and London Review of Books.

Ross enjoys teaching photography and developed and taught a program for High School

youth in New York City for 10 years. She taught undergraduate courses at Columbia

University in New York and The Parsons School of Design, NY.

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