【展讯】暗夜潜流——曾麟个展｜厦门

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 曾麟个展——暗夜潜流 

策展人：肖瑞昀

艺术总监：滕青云

主办：三影堂厦门摄影艺术中心

展期：2022年4月30日 - 5月29日

开幕：2022年5月3日  15:00

地点：厦门市集美区杏林湾商务营运中心二号楼裙楼三层

 · 前言 · 

文/肖瑞昀

展览名“暗夜潜流”，是曾麟的夜间行径，也是作品中景物静谧而边缘的隐藏状态，夜晚的浪漫同时夹杂着戾气。

曾麟在留学期间，以旁观的姿态欣赏着疫情期间的伦敦冬夜，拍摄《去尤斯顿》。彼时路上人影稀疏，树影斑斓下的教堂、迷离的城市显现着光影的浪漫，如同布拉塞拍摄20世纪30年代巴黎迷雾之夜令人难忘。

选自《去尤斯顿》系列

选自《去尤斯顿》系列

暗处是夜晚更深入的境地，《开发区之夜》中，生命在夜幕潜行：履行城市职能的保安、被囚禁的白狗、立交桥下疯长的植物，这些隐蔽而边缘的景象在闪光灯下显现，共同构成了疫情之下国内城市开发区的寂静和封闭。在没有启用闪光灯时，多数的光源是真实而随机的，曾麟以此感受着黑暗对情绪的催化。作品中随处可见的灯光漫射像是即将点燃的烟，曾麟抓住夜里将亮未亮的光。他将打火机等声音叠加在同名影片《开发区之夜》中，强化了这一类视觉感受。

选自《开发区之夜》系列

选自《开发区之夜》系列

展览中的照片引导观众以漫步夜间的移动状态观看，而影片则使观众体验另一种时间的线性。影片《开发区之夜》借鉴克里斯·马克的电影《堤》的蒙太奇方式，观众将在曾麟的自述和声音氛围中、在帧节的画面留白内，跟随他去游走，飘荡着夜晚的思绪。

本次展览另一部影片《一块红布》是实验性纪录片，包含围绕偷渡公共悲剧事件的华人采访、周遭留学生群体的记录，以及个人情感讨论。“红布”作为集体主义的象征如同幽灵般在路上飘荡（影片中的船运、地铁等）。影片从海外华人在两个地域间的身体“游荡”，进而讨论到身份认同与疏离之间的摇摆。

《一块红布》截图

《一块红布》截图

 · 关于艺术家 · 

曾麟，毕业于伦敦大学学院人类学纪录片专业，现居住于深圳。其摄影作品具有强烈的纪实风格与个人色彩，他擅长将注意力集中于抓拍转瞬即逝的瞬间从而表达自我，同时致力于探索实验性的纪录片叙述方式，不断探索自身与视觉形式之间的边界。个人网站链接：https://www.zenglin.org/

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 Zenglin Solo Exhibition —— Night Creeper 

Curator:  Xiao Ruiyun

Art Director:  Teng Qingyun

Organizer: Three Shadows Xiamen Photography Art Centre

Duration: Apr 26, 2022 - May 29, 2022

Opening: May 3, 2022 15:00

Venue: 3rd Floor of Building 2, Xinglinwan Business Center, Jimei District, Xiamen

 · Preface · 

Text/Xiao Ruiyun

The title of this exhibition, Night Creeper, marks Zenglin's nighttime strolls, as well as the quiet and marginal hidden state of the sceneries in his works, where the romance of the night is mixed with antagonism.

During his study abroad, Zenglin appreciated the winter nights of London during the pandemic as a spectator and shot To Euston. There were not many people on the streets at that time. The cathedrals and the foggy city under the shadows of the trees reveal the romance of light and darkness, as unforgettable as Brassaï's misty night in Paris in the 1930s.

To Euston series

Those gloomy crevices are the depths of night. In The Night of Developing Zone, life stalks through the night: security guards performing their duties, white dogs in captivity, plants growing wildly under overpasses; these hidden and marginal scenes are revealed under the flash, collectively constituting the silence and closure of urban developing zones in a country under the pandemic. Most light sources are real but random without the flash, and Zenglin experiences the catalytic influence of darkness on his emotions through them. The diffusion of light everywhere in his work resembles smoke about to be lit, and Zenglin captures the light at night in limbo. In the film of the same name, The Night of Developing Zone, he superimposes the sound of lighters and other items to accentuate this type of visual sense.

The Night of Developing Area series

The Night of Developing Area series

The images in the exhibition lead the audience to see in a moving condition, as if they were out for a nighttime stroll, whilst the film allows them to experience a different kind of linearity of time. The film, The Night of Developing Zone, draws on the montage approach of Chris Marker's film, La Jetée. The audience may follow Zenglin's wanderings in his own narrative and auditory environment, as well as within the white space of the images, where nighttime thoughts float around.

A Piece of Red Cloth, another film in the exhibition, is an experimental documentary that includes interviews with Chinese people on the public tragedy of smuggling, as well as a group of international students and those personal and emotional conversations. The "red cloth" as a collectivism symbol walks the streets like a ghost (shipping, subway, etc. featured in the film). It starts with the physical "wandering" of overseas Chinese between two places and investigates the oscillation between identity and alienation.

A Piece of Red Cloth screenshot

 · Aritist Biography · 

Zenglin graduated from University College London, majoring in Ethnography and Documentary film, and now lives in Shenzhen. His photography works have a strong documentary style and personal perspective. He is good at focusing on capturing fleeting moments and emotions. Meanwhile he is committed to exploring experimental documentary narrative methods and constantly exploring the boundaries between private style and visual form. Personal website: https://www.zenglin.org/

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