【展讯】孙笑涵个展——宁芙 | 三影堂无界项目
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前言
文/肖瑞昀
本次展览“宁芙”叙事围绕着自然和生命展开。孙笑涵用相机捕捉了生活当下细腻而纯粹的感受力，作品呈现了他的个人观看，包容着生命万物、日常行走，也有生活点滴。当我们静心感受作品形成的视觉节奏时，照片化成了一个个喜悦的音符，在这次展览中编排出了宁静而亲密的无声乐章。
展览从自然界的生命为开端，先是花虫鸟兽登场。随着这些生命的视角，观众将慢慢走向了更为广阔的自然天地。这些都是孙笑涵在全球各地与太太旅行时所记录的影像，像收集宝石一样留下的独特画面。观看的过程如同在这些影像间四处漫游，例如观看其间的几幅照片时，我们想象着从草垛跨越到山丘，或是在“紫气东来”的墙洞走出，来到一片大气磅礴的瀑布面前。不同地域的影像巧妙地连结到了一起，生命在自然之间渺小如微尘。
2020年突如其来的疫情让一切的旅行都停滞了。也因为这个契机，孙笑涵转而开始着眼于周遭，在每天中午休息的一个半小时拍摄作品《方圆两公里》。这些街拍的图像可以视为一场行为记录，由最邻近的地点慢慢将地理范围扩散至方圆两公里内的场景。当疫情阻碍许多人类的行径，孙笑涵也用他的方式凝结了这段特殊的时间历程，所见之处皆是寂静之景。
展览随即从外在的世界走向生活，自然与生命在这里交融，孕期女性背影与树木向上延伸的画面寓意着生命与自然的连结。太太作为孙笑涵长时间的拍摄对象，展览一方面呈现了这十年间日记式的生活影像，另一方面展现了一个新生命的孕育和诞生。《水果》系列用俏皮的方式记录了一个胎儿慢慢长大的过程，令人想起小时候大人们说的玩笑话“吃下西瓜籽肚子里会长出西瓜”，桌面上一只爬向葡萄的手同样充满了生活趣味。
女儿的诞生，是整个展览对生命最终的呈现，展览的名称“宁芙”也是女儿的名字，那是身为父亲给女儿最温情的礼物。“宁芙”（Nymphaea）是自然界幻化的精灵，出没于山林、原野和湖泊之间。或许回头再看展览，我们可以忘记创作者的视角，如同孩童或精灵般拥抱着自然与爱，去重新看这些系列作品，寻回对世间万物的好奇和欣喜。
关于艺术家
孙笑涵，1991年生，艺术设计动画专业，图像效果设计师，自由摄影师，现居厦门。曾获 2017、2019胶片摄影赛优秀奖，ILFORD x AUTHART 黑白摄影作品大赛评委选择奖，作品曾多次参加国内线下摄影展。纯粹地观看与记录，是他表达对生活感知的重要出口。
Sun Xiaohan Solo Exhibition —— Nymphaea
Curator：Xiao Ruiyun
Art Director: Teng Qingyun
Organizer: Three Shadows Xiamen Photography Art Centre
Duration: Jun 26, 2021– Jul 25, 2021
Opening：Jun 26, 2021 15:00
Venue: No. 301, Building 2, Xinglinwan Business Center, Jimei District, Xiamen
(Enter from the large platform connecting Building 1 and Building 2)
Preface
Text/Xiao Ruiyun
The narrative of this exhibition Nymphaea revolves around nature and life. Sun Xiaohan captures the delicate and sheer sensibility of life at the moment with his camera. His works display his way of looking, which encompasses all things in the universe, casual strolls in everyday life, and those small moments around us. As we meditate on the visual rhythm hidden in his works, the photographs transform one by one into a note of joy, weaving a tranquil and intimate silent music in this exhibition.
原石
Natual Ore
The exhibition begins with life in nature, starting with the appearance of flowers, insects, birds, and animals. With this perspective of life, the audience will slowly step into the world of nature on a broader scale. These unique images are captured by Sun Xiaohan, like a game of collecting gems, as he travels around the world with his wife. The act of seeing is like wandering around among all these images. When gazing at some of his photographs, we could imagine ourselves crossing from a haystack to a hill or stepping out of a hole in the wall of Purple Air to a majestic waterfall. The images of different regions are weaved together ingeniously, denoting the insignificance of life, like floating dust, in the midst of nature.
沙丘
Dune in Pingtan
The sudden outbreak of the pandemic in 2020 brought all travels to a halt. For this reason, Sun Xiaohan turned his attention to his surroundings and spent an hour and a half during his daily lunch break to shoot Two Kilometers Around. His street photography can be seen as a performance record, slowly expanding his geographical scope from where he is to the area within a two-kilometer radius. While the pandemic impedes many of the human actions in various ways, Sun Xiaohan attempts to freeze this unusual journey in time in his unique approach, with silence prevailing everywhere he turns.
沙滩上的鸟
A Bird on the Beach
This exhibition then gradually proceeds from the external to the internal world of life. Nature and life intersect, and the image of a pregnant woman's back with trees stretching upward indicates the connection between life and nature. His wife has been the focus of Sun Xiaohan's photography for a long time, thus the exhibition on one hand presents a personal photo diary in the past ten years, and on the other hand, depicts the conception and birth of a new life. The Fruit series is a playful record of life from the very beginning till now. It reminds us of the joke that grown-ups used to say when we were little: "Watermelon will grow in our stomachs if we eat watermelon seeds". The hand crawling towards grapes on a tabletop also delivers a sense of humor in life.
The birth of his daughter is the final presentation of life in this exhibition. The title of the exhibition, "Nymphaea", is also the name of his daughter, which carries the fondest wishes from a father to a daughter. "Nymphaea" is the elves in nature, which frequents the mountains, forests, wilderness, and lakes. Perhaps next time when we look back at the exhibition, we might lose the perspective of the artist, and embrace nature with love like a child or an elf and revive our curiosity and delight in every piece of life flourishing in this world.
午后垂钓
Fishing in the Afternoon
Artist Biography
Sun Xiaohan, born in 1991, majored in art design and animation, is now an image effect designer and freelance photographer living in Xiamen. He has won the Excellence Award in 2017 and 2019 Film Painting Hero Photography Competition, ILFORD x AUTHART Black and White Photography Competition. His works have been presented in many offline photography exhibitions in China. The simple way of seeing and recording is an important outlet for him to express his perception of life.
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