杨丁柳：鸟｜Yang Dingliu: Bird

5.8–5.25.2023

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MOU PROJECTS  ✖️  PLATESPACE

北京市东城区东四十条98号PLATESPACE

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杨丁柳

《鸟》系列，2019至今

单频数码录像（彩色、无声）

20分

共3版及2版艺术家试版

Yang Dingliu

Bird series, 2019–ongoing

Single-channel digital video (color, silent)

20 min

Edition of 3 + 2 AP

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对于观鸟者而言，与鸟群保持一定的观测距离是成功捕捉并记录图像与信息的关键。这种不远不近的距离制造了一种观看者与被观看者之间的暧昧关系，透过观测设备的放大和聚焦，这种仿佛窥探的过程展演出一种有趣的拉扯和较量，呈现出隐藏的秘密和细节，令人深深着迷。

在杨丁柳持续创作的系列录像《鸟》中，这种对于“观测距离”的把握被体现在了镜头与屏幕之间的复杂交互和对位上，呈现了一个深入研究凝视概念的观察实验。作品中，杨丁柳邀请了六名模特坐在电脑前，让他们浏览自己想看的任何东西，同时她在远处记录下他们的面部表情。在艺术家的工作室里，杨丁柳布置了灯光和摄像机来捕捉特写镜头，通过模特眼睛的反射来揭示电脑显示屏上的内容。

此次展览中，作品在大尺寸电视上播放，放大的细节吸引观众靠近来仔细观察，仿佛一场愈演愈烈的偷窥游戏。在观看过程中，被拍摄的身体被异化并巧妙地转变为了一种特殊的显示器，在眼睛的反射中播放着他们眼前另外一个显示器上的信息，形成一种不断生成变化的有趣关系。对于杨丁柳来说，录像媒介使她能够揭示、保存和审视那些看不见的细节。以一种遥远的观察者的身分，她安静而巧妙地引导着我们观看展览的方式。

For birdwatchers, in order to capture and record images and information about the flock, it is crucial to keep distant proximity. This precise distance—not too far, not too close—ultimately results in an ambiguous relationship between the observer and the observed. Through the equipment's magnification, the process of prying into the unnoticeable presents a curious sense of contest and confrontation, revealing hidden secrets and details that are deeply fascinating and enthralling.

In Yang Dingliu's ongoing video series Bird, the control of "viewing distance" is reflected in the complex interaction and intertextuality between the lens and the screens, presenting an observational experiment delving into the concept of gaze. Inviting a total of six models to collaborate, Yang asks them to sit in front of a computer and browse whatever they want while she records their facial expressions from afar. In her studio, she laid out the lighting and camera to capture close-ups that reveal the content of the screen in the reflection of the models' eyes.

In the exhibition, presented on large-format televisions, the enlarged details are captivating and invite the viewers for closer inspection, as if an increasingly intensified game of peeping. In the viewing process, the depicted body is alienated and subtly transformed into a special equipment of display, which plays back the information on the screen in front of them in the reflection of the eyes, forming an interesting relationship between images and imagery that are constantly evolving and generate complex connections. For Yang, the medium of videography enables her to reveal, conserve, and scrutinize unseen details. With a way of being a distant observer, Yang quietly and cleverly choreographs our ways of looking in the exhibition.

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关于艺术家

About the Artist

杨丁柳（生于1992年，中国四川乐山）的作品以录像作为主要媒介。她常常以对客观物体的克制观察为基点，将这种观察以合适的形式与载体重现于展览场域内。透过录像，她在对于图像的重组演绎中规避过度解读，将不可见的“目光”变为可见，以传达她对环绕、包围和不断影响着我们的外部环境的感知和理解。

杨丁柳于2014年获得中国美术学院版画系纯艺学士学位，于2022年获得杜塞尔多夫艺术学院纯艺硕士学位，并以Rita McBride教授指导的大师生身份荣誉毕业。

艺术家目前生活和工作于德国杜塞尔多夫。

Yang Dingliu (b. 1992, Leshan, Sichuan, China) mainly works in video. Often taking as a departure point an objective, restrained observation of objects, Yang convenes and reproduces recalled sites to orchestrate specific forms in the presentations of her works. In her practice, she avoids overinterpretation in the recombination and reassembly of images to make the invisible "gaze" visible, conveying her perception and understanding of the external environment that surrounds, envelopes, and constantly influences us.

Yang obtained her BFA in printmaking from the China Academy of Art in 2014 and her MFA from Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in 2022, graduating as an honored student of Professor Rita McBride.

The artist currently lives and works in Düsseldorf, Germany.

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关于MOU PROJECTS

About MOU PROJECTS

MOU PROJECTS成立于2019年，是一间坐落于香港的当代艺术画廊。画廊致力推广本地及国际跨越媒介的新兴艺术家，自成立至今，已为许多艺术家举办了在香港及亚洲地区的首次展览。画廊诣在持续推动艺术对话及观念性创新，支持艺术家深入探索实验性的实践和突破边界的精神，以反映当代社会现实及创造别样的当代美学。

MOU PROJECTS is a Hong Kong-based contemporary art gallery established in 2019. Since its inception, the gallery has been dedicated to showcasing both local and international emerging artists working in all media and has held many of their first solo exhibitions in Hong Kong as well as in Asia. With an aim to facilitate artistic dialogues and conceptual innovations, the gallery supports artists whose experimental practices and boundary-pushing ethos reflect the current social reality and manifest alternative contemporary aesthetics.

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PLATESPACE成立于2018年，空间依据不同语境邀请艺术家实施艺术项目。

PLATESPACE, established in 2018, presents art projects derived from specific contexts.