➯ ➯ ➯ <亞熱帶訊號: 台灣當代影像生產 Subtropical Signals: Contemporary Image-Making from Taiwan>
- in DECK Singapore
𝘉 𝘖 𝘖 𝘒 Photobook : 相互愛上殺害後再彼此相愛
The project has been an exploration of intimacy, photography, and performance within life. This series unfolds as a playful exchange of photographs between us. It's a game-like encounter where the act of documenting for each other becomes oil of our relationships.
In the quiet rituals of everyday life, the camera often captures us at our most natural and unguarded. Yet, as soon as we become aware of the lens, subtle psychological negotiations emerge. Do we wish to be seen, and how do we wish to be in a photo? Before the shutter releases, we begin to construct and project no matter we are conscious or not. It could be either a desirable or an unacceptable image, or it could be both existing and becoming contradictory.
The work questions the boundaries between authenticity and performance, intimacy and the others' observation. Whose image are we really capturing? The self as it is, the self as it hopes to be, or the self reflected through the eyes of a photographer? Incongruity becomes not just a visual record, but a mirror of emotional multiplicity within shared life, which every frame contains both the familiar and the elusive.
Co-creation: Su Hou Wen X Choy Fang Yu
作品是對生活中的親密關係、攝影和表演的探索。這個系列的作品，是我們之間有趣的照片交換。這是一種持續的、遊戲式的接觸，為彼此記錄的行為成為我們關係的潤滑劑。
在日常生活的寧靜儀式中，攝影機經常捕捉到我們最自然、最不設防的一面。然而，一旦我們意識到鏡頭的存在，微妙的心理協商就會出現。我們是否希望被看見？我們希望如何成為照片中的自己？在快門釋放之前，無論我們是否有意識，我們都開始建構和投射。這可能是令人嚮往，也可能是不可接受的，也可能是兩者一起變得矛盾的。
作品質疑真實性與表演、親密感與他人觀察之間的界限。我們到底在捕捉誰的影像？是現實中的自我、希望成為的自我，還是透過攝影師的眼睛所反映的自我？「不協調」不僅是一種視覺記錄，更是一面鏡子，照出共同生活中情感的多重性，每一帧都包含熟悉與難以捉摸的事物。
蘇厚文 X 周芳伃 共同創作
