【展讯】于旷野上绵延的时间——杰弗瑞·布隆德作品展｜厦门

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三影堂厦门摄影艺术中心将于2023年5月13日至7月30日呈现展览“于旷野上绵延的时间”。本次展览作为第十七届“中法文化之春”项目，展出法国艺术家杰弗瑞·布隆德（Jeffrey Blondes）的影像作品。

·  于旷野上绵延的时间  ·

·  杰弗瑞·布隆德作品展  ·

艺术家｜杰弗瑞·布隆德

策展人｜李子健

主办｜三影堂厦门摄影艺术中心

支持｜法国驻广州总领事馆、法国文化中心

影像设备支持｜京东方

展期｜2023年5月13日 - 7月30日

开幕｜2023年5月20日  15:30

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  ·

“在森林里，一切都在运动，不仅仅是树叶，根茎也在带动着地面运动，你仿佛处在一个不停吞吐的巨大肺脏之中，这是空气的潮汐，通过地面，树干，晃动着你的身体。只要你足够缓慢，便可以体会到这种置身母体的感受。”

舒济地区的卢瓦尔河 - 东部，12分钟循环播放，2019年，高清实时影像

Loire at Chouzy -East, 12 Minute Loop, 2019, Real time. High definition

杰弗瑞·布隆迪不停讲述着他的创作，关于自然的节律，日月潮汐的运行，缓慢的冥想。他的声音转化成电波，以光速穿过欧亚大陆，进入我的耳朵。对我这个浸淫于数字时代的年轻人来说，这些内容崭新而陌生。让我习以为常的是以另一些速度运行的事物，以光速传播的网络信号，120hz刷新率的屏幕，以1000公里每小时的速度巡航的客机，隔日达的快递。自然，及其运行的节律，已然作为一个沉默的背景，在聒噪且高速的现代生活中隐去了。而杰弗瑞·布隆迪的作品所要做到的，便是通过他的作品让我们的观察和思考慢下来，以此关注到那些被日常生活淹没和忽略的时间维度。

旷野上的橡树，52 周 × 60 分钟，数字微喷，2008年，216cm × 140cm

Field Oak, 52 Weeks× 60 Minutes, Digital Pigment Print, 2008, 216cm × 140cm

本次展览共展出了6部影像作品和9件摄影作品，摄影作品也皆是视频作品的截图拼接而成。这些作品多数拍摄于他在法国图赖纳的居所附近以及法国著名的河流卢瓦尔河畔，另有两张拍摄于瑞典。杰弗瑞·布隆迪最初以创作绘画为主，绘制了很多风景作品。深受意大利画家乔治·莫兰迪的影响，他的创作关注空间，以及在时间维度上空间中蕴含的细微变化。正是这样的绘画创作，让杰弗瑞·布隆迪最终转向了影像的创作，去呈现时间本身及其中蕴含的变化和生命力。

日照长度，24小时 × 60分钟，数字微喷，2011年，100cm× 140cm

Length of Days, 24 Hours× 60 Minutes, Digital Pigment Print, 2011, 100cm× 140cm

在卢瓦尔河畔附近的创作中，杰弗瑞·布隆迪持续了整整一年去观察卢瓦尔河及其周边的景物。从夏至到冬至，再由冬至到夏至，六个月拍摄日出，六个月拍摄日落，每天记录两个小时，并最终将获得的影像压缩进一系列12分钟的视频当中。从观众的角度来看，这些视频作品几乎与静态照片无异，而就在我们几乎相信这大概是一张静态照片的时候，树叶缓缓地被吹动了，又或是一只鸟突然掠过了画面。这样的惊愕便又将我们即将转移的关注拉了回来，我们的观察慢下来了，逐渐地去匹配自然的节律。从而我们便可以看到，卢瓦尔河畔在一年四季中令人惊叹的变化，生长的植物，飞行的鸟群，涨落的河流，聚散的雾霭，画面中所有的事物，都在不断的流动。同时，在《光谱网格》中，杰弗瑞·布隆迪则将之前一年中拍摄的每个镜头中的颜色进行了平均，并同时播放，由此让我们看到那些层层叠叠的颜色在绵延的时间中流动。

舒济地区的卢瓦尔河 - 西部全景，12 个月 × 12分钟，数字微喷，2019年，216cm × 140cm

Loire at Chouzy - Pan west, 12 Months× 12 Minutes, Digital Pigment Print, 2019, 216cm × 140cm

展览中的其他作品，也大致采用了类似的方法，有些关注节气与天体的运行，有些则关注田野与森林的景观流变。这些作品让我想到亨利·柏格森提出的关于绵延的概念。在他的论述中，绵延可以被理解为一种时间的概念，这种时间并非精确的每时每刻，而是一种无限的连续性，囊括了其间一切的物质的存在和运动，指向不断变迁的实在本身。从这个角度而言，杰弗瑞·布隆迪的创作，甚至我们观众的观看都可以被视为一种将人自身与世间万物交汇融合的行动。依靠着直觉的感受，我们同艺术家一起纵身跃入绵延的生命之流，以此，无限的视角和无尽的时刻便浮现于我们的意识之中。

文/李子健

·  关于艺术家  ·

杰弗瑞·布隆德是一名摄影师和画家，曾在世界各地的画廊举办40余场个展。在过去14年间，布隆德一直致力于制作长达 24、52、甚至 104 小时的高清实时影像。熟悉他作品的观众也将从这些新作中直接看到他持续衷于的创作方法：观察，等待，并记录下自然的微妙之处。

他的关注点始终是景观与时间的交汇；法语单词 "temps"（涵盖了多个英文单词的词义）——时间、天气、季节、节律以及周期。“Temps”: 长时间的静心观察使得观者开始看到与体察到时间的流逝、地球的轮转。在这种沉思的状态下，观者发现自身正与这些幽僻的乡间元素形成互动，并缓步进入以城市为中心的狂热世界里难以实现的“无时间”的状态中。通过对创作主题最直接的表露，Blondes意图为观众创造一个承载真实体验的容器。他的作品通常都当即完成于现场，也几乎不加修饰，因此，我们所看到的是某一时间与地点下对事件最原初的视觉记录。

他的作品被世界各地的公共博物馆与私人收藏，如：狩猎与自然博物馆 (Musee de la Chasse et de la Nature)，法国，巴黎；卢瓦尔河畔肖蒙庄园 (Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire)，法国，卢瓦尔-谢尔；伦敦盖伊医院 (Guy’s Hospital London)，英国，伦敦；斯隆-凯特琳癌症中心 (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center)，美国，纽约；约翰斯-霍普金斯整形外科医院 (Johns Hopkins Orthopaedic Surgery)，美国，巴尔的摩；博鲁桑当代博物馆 (Borusan Contemporary)，土耳其，伊斯坦布尔。

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·  The Duration of the Wild  ·

· Jeffrey Blondes Solo Exhibition ·

Artist｜ Jeffrey Blondes

Curator｜ Li Zijian 

Organizer｜ Three Shadows Xiamen Photography Art Centre

Supporter｜ Consulat général de France à Canton, Institut Français, Faguowenhua, Festival Croisements

Video Equipment Supporter｜ BOE

Duration｜ May 13, 2023 - Jul 30, 2023

Opening｜ May 20, 2023 15:30

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

·  Preface  ·

"In the forest, everything moves. Not only are the leaves blown by the wind, but the roots push up the ground. It all moves together as if it were a huge lung that is breathing. This is the tide of the air, which keeps the tree trunks and branches swaying and when you are on the ground, you become subconsciously aware of everything in subtle, constant movement. If you are slow enough, you might experience the feeling of something akin to being in a womb."

舒济地区的卢瓦尔河 - 西部，12分钟循环播放，2019年，高清实时影像

Loire at Chouzy -West, 12 Minute Loop, 2019, Real time. High definition

Blondes kept talking about his creation, the rhythm of nature, planetary motion, the tides, and slow meditation. His voice was transformed into electric waves that travelled at light speed across Eurasia and arrived in my ears. To me, a young man immersed in the digital age, this content was fresh. What I was accustomed to were things that ran at other speeds, internet signals that travelled at the speed of light, screens with 120Hz refresh rates, airliners cruising at 1000km/h, and packages delivered the next day.  Nature and its rhythm have been ignored as a silent background in the clamorous and fast-paced modern world. Through his artwork, Blondes aims to slow down our observation and thinking, so as to pay attention to those dimensions of time and transformation of nature that are neglected by daily life.

夏至，24小时 × 60分钟，数字微喷，2008年，100cm x 140cm

Summer Solstice, 24 Hours× 60 Minutes, Digital Pigment Print, 2008, 100cm x 140cm

The exhibition features six videos and nine prints. Most of these works were taken around his home in Touraine, France, or along the Loire River's banks in Chouzy, while two were made in Sweden, 200 kilometres above the Arctic Circle. Early in his career as a painter, Blondes did a great deal of landscape painting. Deeply influenced by the Italian artist Giorgio Morandi, he is concerned with space, and the subtle changes it contains in the dimension of time. Eventually, this focus brought him to the medium of moving images.

Whilst working near the Loire, Blondes spent an entire year contemplating the river and its surrounding fields. From summer solstice to winter solstice and back again, six months for shooting sunrise and six months for sunset, two hours each day, the resulting videos were then condensed into a series of 12-minute movies. For the audience, these films are almost like still photos, but just as we may believe that it is probably a still picture, the leaves are slowly blown or a bird suddenly sweeps across the frame. Such surprises pull our attention back and slow down our observation, gradually emulating nature's cadence. Thus we can observe the astounding variations in colour throughout the year. Moreover, in his film "Loire at Chouzy Ouest Optic Grid", Blondes averages and compresses the colours from each video at each minute and plays them in a grid simultaneously, allowing us to perceive those layers of colours flowing through the duration of time.

树与天空，52周 × 60分钟，数字微喷，2009年，216cm × 140cm

Trees and Sky, 52 Weeks× 60 Minutes, Digital Pigment Print, 2009, 216cm × 140cm

Other works in the exhibition take a similar approach, with some concentrating on the ebb and flow of the seasons, the celestial bodies' movements and others on changing fields and forests. These works remind me of Henri Bergson's concept of "duration（durée in French）". In his discourse, "duration" can be understood as a time-based notion that is not a precise moment-by-moment one, but an infinite consistent flow encompassing the existence and movement of all matter in between, pointing to the ever-changing entity itself. From such a perspective, Blondes's creation, and even our audience’s viewing, can be seen as an act of merging ourselves with everything in the world. With our intuition, we leap with the artist into the duration of being, and consequently, boundless perspectives and endless moments emerge into our consciousness.

Text/ Li Zijian

·  Artist Biography  ·

Trained as a photographer and painter, with a career that includes over 40 solo exhibitions in galleries around the world, Blondes' last fourteen years have been devoted to making 24, 52, even 104 hour High Definition videos, something that makes sense to an audience familiar with what has always been his primary instinct: to watch, wait and record the subtlety of nature. 

His preoccupation has been the intersection of landscape and time; the French word 'temps' (encompassing many words in English) - time, weather, season, rhythm and cycle. 'Temps': prolonged patient observation that transports the viewer to a level where they beginto see and sense time pass, feel the earth's rotation. In this state of contemplation, his audiences find themselves interacting with isolated rural elements, slowing to a 'time-less-ness' rarely experienced in a frenetic urban-centric world. Working directly with his subject, Blondes' intention is to create for the viewer a container of real experience. Always completed on site, his work is rarely retouched, thus we are presented with visual records of authentic events in time and place. 

His work is found in many public and private collections throughout the world, in particular : 

-Le Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris France 

-Domaine de Chaumont sur Loire 

-Guy’s Hospital London 

-Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York 

-Johns Hopkins Orthopaedic Surgery, Baltimore 

-Borusan Contemporary, Istanbu

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