集美阿尔勒发现奖 | 冯立、孙彦初
“2017 集美 · 阿尔勒国际摄影季”将于 11 月 25日开幕，呈现共计30多个展览版块，覆盖摄影作为当代艺术一个重要组成部分的方方面面。“集美 · 阿尔勒国际摄影季”将陆续推出展览单元简介。
集美·阿尔勒发现奖
本届“摄影季”邀请5 位策展人担任提名人，每人分别提名2位艺术家。10 位艺术家将在摄影季期间以个展的形式展出自己的作品。专家顾问团将在开幕周期间完成对“集美· 阿尔勒发现奖”单元艺术家个展的考察并以公平性、公正性、学术性为基本前提，评选出“2017 集美· 阿尔勒发现奖”的得主。大奖得主将获得奖金20万元人民币，并将在下一年度前往法国阿尔勒国际摄影节举办个展。
海报图片 / Conception of poster：冯立，选自《白夜》系列，2017，图片由艺术家提供 / Feng Li, from the series White Night, 2015, courtesy of the artist
冯立，工作生活于四川成都。中医专业毕业却悖论般长期从事与摄影相关的工作。他似乎轻易间就可以从平常生活中找出无数异样的存在，闪光灯在他手中发出一道又一道闪光，把这些看似荒诞的瞬间凝固成我们身临其景的日常切片。
主要展览：2016年，《白夜》个展南京艺术学院、《零食》上海当代艺术博物馆、《我们的未来》北京红砖美术馆；2015年《北京国际摄影双年展》、《重庆长江国际当代影像展》；2014年，《中国当代摄影十年》连州；2012年，《济南国际摄影双年展》最佳摄影师大奖、《第八届连州国际摄影节》评委会大奖 。
海报图片 / Conception of poster：孙彦初，《星与海》，选自《虚构集》系列，2014，图片由艺术家提供 / Sun Yanchu, Star and Sea, from the series Ficciones, 2014, courtesy of the artist
孙彦初，1978年出生在河南周口，现工作居住于河南郑州。近期的展览有2016年香港巴塞尔的“暗房里的自大者”个展、“中国摄影：二十世纪以来”三影堂摄影艺术中心2015，其作品为艺术机构与个人收藏。
孙彦初的影像结合了他个人生活经验与他对摄影、绘画、图像编辑的多方面理解的综合，一方面他依旧自主拍摄那些苍劲孤独的画面，另一方面他也竭力寻找历史中的废弃影像，通过涂抹、编辑使它们在当下有着全新的呈现，这一对影像的解构使其作品散发着独特的魅力。其作品《沉溺于此》及《虚构集》分别在2011年和2016年由假杂志出版。曾获2015谷仓摄影样书：马丁·帕尔评审奖大奖、2011连州国际摄影年度新摄影奖及2010日本MIO 摄影奖评审员（森村泰昌）特别奖。
提名人&策展人：苏文
艺术家及作品：
冯立 |《白夜》
孙彦初 |《虚构集》
Feng Li & Sun Yanchu @ Jimei x Arles
文 / 苏文
在图像生产过剩的全球环境中，在摄影展的宫殿里，在作品以越来越快的节奏被接受、展出和存档的时代，冯立和孙彦初的作品显得异常稳定。当摄影师们越来越喜欢在一个接一个毫不相似的方案中构思自己的创意，冯立和孙彦初有着一种更加内在的摄影方式。其实，他们图像的主题除了他们自己的生活别无他物，而唯一的方案，就是他们自身，以及他们与周围人的互动。虽然两人的风格差别甚大，一位在城市快速地拍着照片，另一位已经触及造型艺术，他们的共同之处是一种“长期”的摄影实践，时间在这里成为了成熟的一项因素。
例如，冯立就是一个专注于同一、唯一系列的人，十年来，他一直坚持创作《白夜》。他的全部天才、敏锐和技巧，都展现在了和他日常生活紧密结合的这部唯一的作品中。如果说，一些人摄影就像打猎一样，那么我们可以说，冯立的摄影好比书法或是晨练的太极。就像运动员或音乐家重复一个动作成百上千遍那样，冯立每天都在成都拍摄照片。他精于直观地拍摄街道，游荡于城市，轻松地捕捉到人群最荒诞的姿态。
他的照片里既有偶然的相遇，也有看似不可能的对现实事物的布置：他的商业街道，公园，还有餐厅。实际上，相比于从远程去拍，冯立更擅长近距离拍摄，因为他无法阻止各种奇奇怪怪的人跑来贴在镜头上。冯立只着眼于日常生活，面对日常生活这幅宏大场面，他能轻而易举地觉察到其中最奇特的场景。穿迷你裙的女明星，穿假皮衣的老妇人，无家可归的流浪汉，多彩的鹦鹉，他捕捉的是一些奇特的人物，他们用各自的风格扮演着自己在生活这部大戏中的角色。
孙彦初则是把摄影媒介作为原始材料从中汲取，用图像来坚持不懈地展现他给人们和艺术家虚构的情节。起初，他使用的是来自《Obsessed》的自己的摄影作品，后来则用从跳蚤市场搜集来的照片操作。在《虚构集》中，他用这些照片进行了各种各样的造型实验，通过混用金箔、水彩、丙烯和酱油，改变了照片原有的内容。这些尺寸不大的照片，成为了开始一段历史或者故事的契机，他以照片的范围为起点，用铅笔或钢笔创造出双重的虚构场景。说是虚构，一是因为它们产生于废弃的照片，切断了和原初背景的联系，二是因为它们在不同的颜料和材料的层层叠叠中被覆盖、被掩埋、被隐藏。这些小小的虚构作品是独一无二的，显示出孙彦初作品和当前摄影的不同，照片在他这儿是试验品，同时也是升华之作。
冯立，选自《白夜》系列，2016，图片由艺术家提供
Feng Li, from the series White Night, 2016, courtesy of the artist
冯立，选自《白夜》系列，2007，图片由艺术家提供
Feng Li, from the series White Night, 2007, courtesy of the artist
孙彦初，《观火》，选自《虚构集》系列，2015，图片由艺术家提供
Sun Yanchu, Watching the fire, from the series Ficciones, 2015, courtesy of the artist
孙彦初，《一个女子的肖像》，选自《虚构集》系列，2014，图片由艺术家提供
Sun Yanchu, A woman's portrait, from the series Ficciones, 2014, courtesy of the artist
Feng Li works and lives in Chengdu of Sichuan. Graduate of Chinese medicine, he has been engaged in photography-related work since longtime. It seems easy for him to find countless strange presences in the ordinary life. By using flash, he concretes those absurd moments into our daily routine.
Main Exhibitions: "White Night", Solo Exhibition at Nanjing Art Institute (2016), "Snack" at Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art, "Our Future" at Beijing Red Brick Art Museum; “Beijing Photo Biennial” (2015), "Chongqing Changjiang International Photography and Video Biennale” (2015); “Ten Years of Contemporary Photography in China” (2015); "Jinan International Photography Biennale" Best Photographer Award , the eighth “Lianzhou International Photography Festival" jury award (2012).
Sun Yanchu, born in 1978 in Zhoukou of Henan province, now lives in Zhengzhou. His recent exhibitions are: solo exhibition "The Egotist in the darkroom" in Art Basel of Hong Kong in 2016, "Chinese Photography: Twentieth Century and beyond" of Three Shadows Photography Art Centre in 2015. His works are collected by art institutions and individuals.
Sun Yanchu's photos and videos combine his personal life experience with his understandings of photography, painting and image editing. On the one hand he is shoots vigorous and lonely pictures, on the other hand he tries to find abandoned images by the history. By painting and editing, he makes a new presentation. This deconstruction of the image of its works exudes a unique charm. His works "Obsessed" and "Ficciones" were published in 2011 and 2016 by Jiazazhi Press. He has won Gucang Dummy Award Martin Parr Edition prize in 2015, New Photography Award of Lianzhou International Photography Annual in 2011 and of MIO Award Special Mentions in 2010.
Nominator: Thomas Sauvin
Nominated Artists:
Feng Li (White Night)
Sun Yanchu (Ficciones)
Feng Li & Sun Yanchu @ Jimei x Arles
Text / Thomas Sauvin
In the global context of image overproduction and the photo festival circuit in which works are digested, presented and archived at an ever faster pace, the works of Fengli and Sun Yanchu are remarkably consistent. In an era in which photographers increasingly envisage their creations in the form of projects that follow one another without resemblance, Fengli and Sun Yanchu have a much more visceral approach to photography. In effect, it is their life and nothing else that forms their subject, and the only project that exists is themselves and their interaction with what surrounds them. While their styles are very different, one practices fast photography in an urban environment while the other plays in the sphere of plastic art, what they have in common is the practice of longterm image-making, factoring in time in the process of maturation.
Fengli for example is the man of one series, White Night, which he has worked on for more than 10 years. All his talent, flair, and technique, are deployed in one and the same work, intimately tied to his daily life. If some practice photography as if it were hunting, one can say that Fengli practices it more like calligraphy or morning taiji. Like a sportsman or musician who repeats a movement 100 or 1000 times, Fengli takes daily pictures in Chengdu. Skilled at shooting very intuitive street photos, he wanders the city, delicately capturing the city’s human fauna in all its incredible postures.
His photos tend to show chance encounters with an improbable cast of reality, its shopping streets, parks and restaurants. It seems that Fengli is most at ease at close range rather than going on distant adventures, and it is almost in spite of himself that strange creatures find themselves stuck on his viewfinder. Fengli has an eye only for the everyday and it is without effort that he discovers the most unusual scenes of the ordinary spectacle of life. Starlets in mini skirts, old ladies in fake fur, aimless street sleepers, a multicoloured parrot, he pins down unique characters who all, in their own ways, seem to play a part in the great fiction of ordinary life.
As for Sun Yanchu, he takes on the photographic medium as the raw material for experimenting on the image and endlessly drawing out the web of his obsessions as a man and as an artist. In the beginning he alters his own prints, from the Obsessed series (2011), later working with photos gathered in flea markets. With the series and book Ficciones he subjects photos to plastic experiments of all kinds, mixing gold leaf, watercolour, acrylic, even soy sauce, aging the original content of these photos. Often small in size, they become a pretext for starting a story or a tale that it develops beyond the restricted frame of the drawing, creating with paintbrush or pen doubly fictive landscapes. Fictitious because they are made of abandoned images, cut off from their primary context, and also because they are covered, buried, layer by layer, under pigment and other material. These miniature fictions are unique pieces that distinguish Sun's work from the current mode of production. The photograph here is both the guinea pig and the object of sublimation.
关于策展人：
Thomas Sauvin 苏文是一位醉心于中国老照片的法国收藏家与艺术家，定居于北京与巴黎两地。2009年，他开启了一个全新而又与众不同的旅程：在北京郊区的一家废品收购站搜集将要被集中销毁的废弃底片。打那之后，这一独特的收藏工程便如滚雪球一般越做越大，在旧货市场和网络上搜寻来的零散照片与影集也纷纷被囊括其中。如今他收集来的底片已逾50万张，摄制年代多二十世纪中后期。这一影像档案库构筑了一座跨文化交流的视觉平台，唤醒了国人对那段旧时光的共同回忆。苏文的老照片收藏也在世界范围内得到了关注：该系列作品曾参展新加坡国际摄影节（2012）与中国最具权威、历史最为悠久的连州国际摄影年展（2013），并斩获了连州影展的新摄影年度大奖。该系列获奖作品随即先后展出于澳大利亚4A亚洲当代艺术中心（2014）、美国芝加哥当代摄影博物馆（2014）、瑞士Vevey’s Festival Images (2014)、比利时布鲁塞尔巴黎－北京美术馆（2014）、中国北京中央美术学院（2015）、美国旧金山SF Camera works （2016）、美国旧金山中国文化中心（2016）、法国旺多姆Promenades photographiques（2016）以及瑞士Vevey Festival Images （2016）。参展奔波之余，苏文也没有停下老照片的整理与编纂工作。他至今已出版了五本著作，其中就包括了曾入围2013年（巴黎摄影光圈基金会）Paris Photo ApertureFoundation（“第一本摄影集”） First Photobook Award奖项决赛的限量版影集《北京银矿（Beijing Silvermine)）。而另一本《双喜（Until Death Do Us Part)）也被英国著名摄影师Martin Parr 钦定为2015年《英国摄影杂志》年度最佳影集之一。法国国家图书馆也在近期收录了苏文的全套出版作品。
About the curator:
Since 2009, the French collector and artistThomas Sauvin has embarked on an unusual adventure: salvaging discardednegatives from a recycling plant on the edge of Beijing that were destined todestruction. Undertaking one of the largest and most important archivalprojects in China, he buys by the kilo, taking away rice bags filled withthousands or rolls of slobbery, dusty and scratched negative film. Once closelyexamined, images are consistently selected, digitized, and classified. Today itencompasses over half a million of anonymous photographs spanning the periodfrom 1985 to 2005, reconstructing then a large part of the history of popularanalogue photography in China. This coherent and unceasingly evolving archiveallows us to apprehend negatives in different ways. It constitutes a visualplatform for cross-cultural interactions, while impacting on our collectivememory of the recent past.
展览地点：集美新城市民广场展览馆
Location: Jimei Citizen Center, Xiamen
第三届“集美·阿尔勒国际摄影季”
2017年11月25日—2018年1月3日
地点：集美新城市民广场展览馆、三影堂厦门摄影艺术中心、
城市跨区域空间等
主办方：三影堂摄影艺术中心、厦门市天下集美文广传媒有限责任公司
集美是镶嵌在厦门经济特区的一颗璀璨明珠，是被誉为“华侨旗帜、民族光辉”的爱国侨领陈嘉庚先生的故乡，这里经济发达、人文荟萃、环境优美、生态宜居，是中国著名的侨乡和厦门市重要的产业区、文教区、新城区，嘉庚先生创办的集美学村闻名遐迩，“一精神三文化”（嘉庚精神、华侨文化、闽南文化、学村文化）的文化特质独具魅力。当前，集美区正以“创新、协调、绿色、开放、共享”五大发展理念为指导，深入实施人文集美发展战略，打造“产城学人”深度融合的区域创新中心。灵玲国际马戏城、嘉庚剧院、诚毅科技探索中心、厦门老院子景区等一批高端文化产业项目串珠成线，城市文化演艺中心规模初显，海峡两岸龙舟文化节、厦门（集美）草莓音乐节、集美新城荧光夜跑等高规格品牌活动连番上演、精彩纷呈，集美的人文魅力日益彰显。本活动得到厦门市集美区委、区政府的大力支持，由三影堂摄影艺术中心与厦门市天下集美文广传媒责任有限公司联合主办。以打造中国最具专业品质的国际摄影节和向公众推广介绍摄影文化为己任。
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