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罗海伦个展——回溯与流逝
策展人：李子健
艺术总监：滕青云
主办：三影堂厦门摄影艺术中心
展期：2022年12月16日 - 2023年1月15日
开幕：2022年12月17日 15:00
摄影总是不可避免地与记忆相关。从某种角度而言，我们会在照片之中构建回忆，回溯性地去理解业已流逝的过去，并让未来在时间中展开。在本次展览中，罗海伦从回溯与流逝这两个方面出发，展出了近年拍摄的两个作品《Yaya》和《Before Loss》, 用平实有力的影像去探讨生命中的事件与记忆的关系。
作品《Yaya》聚焦于海伦的爷爷的日常生活，题目“Yaya”是上海话中爷爷的叫法。跟随着海伦的镜头，可能最先引起我们注意的，是爷爷的伤痕。这些伤痕，已经陪伴了他50余年，是爷爷刚刚转业去化工厂工作时，一场严重事故留下的。在这之前，他是一位空军飞行员。通过海伦细腻的镜头，我们似乎可以看到那些属于爷爷的回溯性的记忆：压在玻璃板下的老照片，奖杯与奖章，以及等待起飞的航模。但似乎更重要的是，这组作品为我们呈现的是海伦自己对爷爷的观察，这些观察也同样带有着那些自童年开始的回忆，给与海伦长久的陪伴，积极乐观的面对生活。记忆在回溯性的塑造着当下，而那场50年前的事件所带来的创伤似乎早已在日常中消散。
展厅的另外一侧展出的《Before Loss》则将关注点聚焦在了事件的发生与记忆产生的机制。通过一些列的布景摄影，海伦试图用这些照片诠释究竟什么是事件，即事物的稳定状态或突然或逐渐的发生不可逆转的改变。下坠的玻璃杯接触地面前的一瞬间，绳索在巨大的拉力下绷开前的一霎那，亲友的分别，花朵的逐渐凋零。这些被照片定格下的时刻，总是会让我们立刻联想到过去与未来发生的事情。这便是记忆的机制，总是从业已消失之物的想象出发，站在当下，对过去展开重构。而如果没有这些事件的发生，我们的记忆也将无从产生。
创伤与消逝或许是我们每个人都会经历的必然，但这些事件并非意味着我们只能被动的接受，而是恰恰成为了记忆生成的可能途径。在回溯与流逝之间，罗海伦试图通过这些照片作为我们展现那些生命中的事件，以及不断涌现的记忆。
——文/李子健
·关于艺术家·
罗海伦，1997年出生于上海，独立艺术家。2021年毕业于加拿大约克大学视觉艺术系。作品以概念摄影、纪实摄影和街头摄影为主要创作媒介，作品内容主要围绕性别、记忆、家庭、死亡等主题进行创作。现生活于上海。
Luo Hailun Solo Exhibition —— Retrospect and Efflux
Curator: Li Ziian
Art Director: Teng Qingyun
Organizer: Three Shadows Xiamen Photography Art Centre
Duration: Dec 16, 2022 - Jan 15, 2023
Opening: Dec 17, 2022 15:00
Venue: 3rd Floor of Building 2, Xinglinwan Business Center, Jimei District, Xiamen
Photography is inevitably associated with memory. In a way, we construct memories in photographs, retrospectively understand the past, and let the future unfold in time. In this exhibition, Luo Hailun presents two recent works "Yaya" and "Before Loss" from the perspective of retrospection and efflux, exploring the relationship between events in life and memory with powerful images.“Yaya” focuses on the daily life of Hailun's grandfather, the title "Yaya" is the name of his grandfather in Shanghainese. Following Hailun's camera, perhaps the first thing that catches our attention are the scars on his face. These scars, which have been with him for more than 50 years, were left by a serious accident when he firstly work in a chemical factory. Before that, he was an Air Force pilot. Through Hailun's delicate lens, we seem to see those retrospective memories that belonged to Grandpa: old photos under glass panels, trophies and medals, and model airplanes waiting to take off. But what seems to be more important is that this set of works presents us with Hailun's own observations of her grandfather, giving Hailun long-lasting companionship and positive optimism to face life. Memory is retrospectively shaping the present, while the trauma of that 50-year-old event seems to have long since dissipated in the everyday life.On the other side of the exhibition space, "Before Loss" focuses on the mechanism of event and memory production. Through a series of set photographs, Hailun tries to explain what exactly is an event, that is, a sudden or gradual irreversible change of the stable state of things. The moment before the falling glass touches the ground, the moment before the rope is taut under the great tension, the separation of friends and relatives, the gradual fading of flowers. These moments framed by photos always remind us of the past and future. This is the mechanism of memory, always starting from the imagination of things that have disappeared, standing in the present and reconstructing the past. Without these events, our memories would not have been created.Trauma and fading may be inevitable for all of us, but these events do not mean that we can only passively accept them, but rather they become a possible way to generate memories. Between retrospection and efflux, Hailun Luo tries to show us the events in life and the memories that keep emerging through these photographs. · Arist Biography ·
A visual artist who is mainly engaged in Photography. Hailun was born and raised in Shanghai, China in 1997. She graduated from York University with a BFA degree in Toronto, Canada in 2021. Her works mainly contain the conceptual photography, street photography and documentary photography. The concepts in her works are mostly related to gender, life and death, family and memories.
Personal website: www.luohailun.com
「无界展览项目」
“无界”是三影堂厦门摄影艺术中心于2018年启动的展览项目，旨在发掘优秀的视觉艺术创作者，为其提供专业的展示平台。该项目通过向全球艺术家公开征集作品/方案，不设“界”地呈现多元的艺术创作，并举办展览开幕、艺术家导览、对谈、分享会等活动。
该项目迄今已系统呈现了三十场个展和三届“无界艺术展”群展。我们也希望以此联结艺术爱好者，使“无界”成为一个广阔的展示与交流平台。
三影堂“无界”项目个展持续征集中