【展讯】管若彤个展——杏桃花，蜂蜜｜厦门

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 管若彤个展——杏桃花，蜂蜜 

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8月13日 - 9月11日

开幕：2022年8月13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

管若彤的作品围绕家庭关系中的情感变化展开，并且将空间作为承载情感的媒介。展览开篇的系列胶片曝光，呈现了一种白日梦般的诗意场所，如同巴什拉在《空间的诗学》所讨论的：空间，尤其是家庭场所反映了亲密、孤独或热情的意象，我们主观地建构家庭空间，它也灵性地建构我们。

选自《杏桃花，蜂蜜》系列

Nectarine Blossom & Honey series

本次展览叙事由落日余晖的生活场景开始，光线将场景分割成两部分，象征着若彤与母亲之间分开的距离，这让她开始审视家庭状态以及更深远的家庭文化。标题“杏桃花，蜂蜜”来源于母亲常用的一款香水，就如香气弥漫给人的多层感受——温柔、炽热或深沉，作品表现了母亲作为女性生命的复杂性，一方面母亲的角色展现家庭结构的多元，另一方面则是身为工厂经营者的繁忙与充实。

选自“Home / Almost Home”系列

Home / Almost Home series

本次展览中我们可以看到，母亲的“痕迹”（Trace）等细微之物替代了她在家中的身影。若彤用摄影探索了记忆和个体感知的互动：隔着珠帘隔断等待母亲、客厅干枯的花、简易晾晒的衣服等诸多物件细节，这些痕迹是家庭现实的物理景观，也是情感记忆中的景观。工厂部分的作品则是母女两人情感的连接点，因为创作的契机开始深入了解母亲的工作，此时若彤逐渐抛开女儿的身份视角，从一个女性角度看另外一位女性的生命经历。在男性为主的传统工业生产中，女性经营者如何游走其中？我们可以看到母亲的身影穿梭于巨大的机械之间，这些机械同时隐喻着男性。此外，作品通过空间构图、不同的物件组合，从视觉上传递母亲工作间的平衡状态和力量关系。

选自“Home / Almost Home”系列

Home / Almost Home series

展览特别将家庭与工厂所在的空间影像交替，再现母亲在一处的缺位，在另一处空间则是在场的。作品从个体经验出发，进而讨论到家庭关系以及社会中的性别问题。它指出了女性通常被压抑在私人空间内，被认为是琐碎、不重要的，常常忽略她们在公共视野中的能量。作品不仅是拍摄母亲，更是艺术家希望通过作品邀请观众审视自己，寻找身为女性的主体性。

选自《杏桃花，蜂蜜》系列

Nectarine Blossom & Honey series

注：《空间的诗学》，法国哲学家巴什拉著。他从现象学展开对建筑空间的思考，认为空间并非填充物体的容器，而是人类意识的居所。

——文/肖瑞昀

 ·关于艺术家· 

管若彤，1998年出生于安徽合肥，现生活、工作于芝加哥，2021年毕业于芝加哥艺术学院。作品以摄影为主要媒介，从个体向广义的家庭概念出发，探讨家庭的价值及意义。近期参与的展览包括 “Fly on the Wall”(Mana Contemporary, 芝加哥，2022)，“家庭价值” （壹Art艺术机构，合肥，2021），“Where We Are” （Site Gallery, 芝加哥，2019)。

个人网站：https://ruotongguanphoto.com/

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 Ruotong Guan Solo Exhibition —— Nectarine Blossom & Honey 

Curator: Ruiyun Xiao

Art Director: Qingyun Teng

Organizer: Three Shadows Xiamen Photography Art Centre

Duration: Aug 13, 2022 - Sep 11, 2022

Opening: Aug 13, 2022 15:00

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

Ruotong Guan’s photography explores the fluctuating emotions in familial connections, using family space as an intermediate. The exhibition starts with a series of light leaking films, creating a poetic and dreamlike environment. As Bachelard discussed in The Poetics of Space: our home, in particular, reflects the imagery of intimacy, solitude, and passion; we subjectively construct our home while being spiritually constructed by it.

选自《杏桃花，蜂蜜》系列

Nectarine Blossom & Honey series

The narrative of this exhibition opens with a scene from an ordinary day at dusk, where the light separates the space into two parts, signifying the distance between Ruotong and her mother. This distance enables Ruotong to deeply examine the state and culture of the familial situations. The title Nectarine Blossom & Honey, is the name of a perfume that her mother always wears. Her work portrays the complexity of a mother's life as a woman, just as the fragrance diffuses into multiple layers of sensation that are simultaneously tender, passionate, and profound. By photographing her mother both in the house and in the factory that her mother owns, Ruotong’s work reveals the complication of female identities. On the one hand, the role of a mother presents the diversity of the family structure, on the other hand, it also demonstrates the intensity and busyness of being a female factory owner.

选自“Home / Almost Home”系列

Home / Almost Home series

In Ruotong’s work, her mother’s “traces” in the house become the presence of her mother. Ruotong uses photography to investigate the interaction between memory and personal perception through the depiction of numerous exquisitely detailed scenes and objects, such as her waiting for her mother through a curtain made of beads, carelessly hanged clothes, and dying flowers in the living room, etc. These traces not only represent the physical landscape of the family reality but also the emotions and memories accompanied by it. The exhibition's factory portion focuses on the mother and daughter's emotional bond. Ruotong gradually abandons the daughter's viewpoint as she develops this series when she gets to learn more about her mother's profession and to examine another woman's life experience from a different female point of view. She uses her work to reflect on how female business owners navigate through a male-dominated industrial environment. The presence of men is indicated by the large machines which the female figure is passing through. Additionally, Ruotong's works visually convey the state of balance and the strength of the woman at work through various spatial compositions and object combinations.

选自“Home / Almost Home”系列

Home / Almost Home series

In the exhibition, images of the home and the factory alternate, replicating the mother's absence in one location and her presence in another. The works of Ruotong begin with personal experiences and then move on to examine gender issues in both familial and societal contexts. They draw attention to the fact that in society women are often considered inconsequential, and treated unjustly, while women's energy is frequently disregarded in public. Thus, in addition to capturing her mother with her camera, Ruotong hopes to inspire the audience to discover the female subjectivity through her works.

选自《杏桃花，蜂蜜》系列

Nectarine Blossom & Honey series

Note: The Poetics of Space is written by French philosopher Bachelard. He bases his study of architectural space on phenomenology, arguing that space is not a container to hold things, but rather the home of human consciousness.

——Text/Xiao Ruiyun

 · Arist Biography · 

Ruotong Guan is a Chicago-based visual artist, who was born in Hefei, China (1998). Her photography, explores family dynamics including shared physical spaces and ideas of home. Ruotong Guan received her BFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2021. Her work has been exhibited at Mana Contemporary (Chicago, IL, 2022) , Yi Art Institute (Hefei, China, 2021), Site Gallery (Chicago, IL, 2019).

Personal website: https://ruotongguanphoto.com/

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