Fiction Landscape

My installation “Fiction Landscape” is composted of drawing, textile and video. The installation is based on my experiences during extensive travels in recent years, where I collected the fragments of patterns used in this work. These materials are used within the context of the my personal life, develop into new spatial and color compositions. With the change of time and space, the work may be a simple sketch, paintings, spatial installations, or digital works. The process is one of familiarizing myself with a different world and mentally traveling beyond the familiar one, providing a physical experience of a spatial expansion with three-dimensional installations. When thoughts and vision move through the images and spaces, this is the “travel.”

 

小说景观

小说景观是一件由纸本绘画、纺织物和视频等元素组成的装置作品。这件作品基于我在近些年的旅途中收集的纹样碎片而展开,并是随时间不停发展、变化的作品。

在旅途中我收集各种碎片式的纹样,这些素材在我的个人语境中被重新讨论,生发出新的图像,色彩和空间结构。由于时间和空间的改变,这样生成的作品或许是一张简单的素描,也可能会继续生发为绘画、空间装置、数媒作品。这是艺术家与一个异世界的熟悉过程以及与一个熟悉世界的超脱过程,毕蓉蓉用卧游来描述她的生发式绘画方式,从平面绘画到三维空间的拓展为观众提供了身体上的空间经验,视觉和思维在图像和空间内部的游动形成了一个自由的整体,而这正是毕蓉蓉的过程。

 

The installation was exhibited at the art Basel Hong Kong 2018 – Discoveries, presented by the A Thousand Plateaus Art Space.

这件装置作品被展示于2018年香港巴塞尔发现探索单元–千高原艺术空间展位。

 

 

 

 

 Some works | 部分作品

 

Details of Video work | 视频作品的局部

 

 

小說景觀

Fiction Landscape

/許晟     /鄔晨雲

如果要將當代世界凝結成一幅風景畫,它應該是什麼樣子?每個人都會有不同的答案。細細一想,當代世界不僅包括真實的人造景觀,自然風景,還包含了網路世界的形態;不僅包含人們能夠看到的,眼前的景觀,還包含了能夠瞭解到的,宇宙裏的資訊,這些資訊進入腦海,也構成了當代世界的一部分;另外,當代世界作為歷史的時間線上最靠前的部分,也自然包含了歷史中更早的部分——人類所知的,這個世界的過去,以及過去所留下的物證,也構成了當代世界的另一個維度。更重要的是,這幅畫卷只能屬於每一個描繪它的人,是每個人內心世界與生活經驗的映照:每個人都有一個不同的世界。

畢蓉蓉就在嘗試描繪一幅當代世界的風景畫,這是一個複雜的過程,這幅畫是在她延續不斷的創作中緩慢生長著。她的水墨畫功底讓她對風景有著深刻的理解,她的創作專案也像是一幅不斷延展的當代畫卷。這幅畫卷不是一次完成的,而是像一個有生命的個體,在不斷地生長著。具體來說,她收集生活與旅途中的視覺碎片,從街頭塗鴉,到巴比倫建築紋樣,從火車窗外掠過的樹影,到歐洲城市中的海報。在畢蓉蓉的作品中,這些素材都以紋樣化,抽象化的形式呈現,所以是個人化的,對觀眾而言是陌生的。但同時,它們又來自許多人共同的視覺經驗,所以會勾起觀者經驗深處的感知。作品由繪畫,視頻,裝置,織物等不同的媒介構成,不同的質感似乎再現了不同的視覺經驗。小說景觀是一個具有生命力的專案,它又是具體而微的,它來自藝術家的個體經驗,但又在喚起觀者對自然與風景本身的感知。

What would it look like if the contemporary world is delineated in the form of landscape painting? Different people have different answers for that. If we put a deeper thought into that, we’d realize the contemporary world includes not only man-made landscape, natural landscape but also the virtual internet world. In other words, it includes not only the seeable (i.e. landscape in front of our eyes) but also the perceivable (i.e. information of the cosmos). When the latter is received by our mind, it also constitutes a prominent part of the contemporary world. Moreover, as the starting point of the timeline of all time, the contemporary world, naturally, contains the earlier history – the past as well as the physical evidence of the past constitute another dimension of the contemporary world. More importantly, the delineation hereby created pertains only to the one who creates it as it is the reflection of one’s inner world and life experience: the image of the world varies person by person.

What Bi Rongrong endeavors to do is to create a landscape painting of the contemporary world. As the process is long and complex, this “painting” keeps evolving, slowly and yet constantly. A good mastery of ink painting skills enables her to gain a profound insight into landscape painting, which in return makes her work an ever-developing landscape of the contemporary time. Rather than completing everything all at once, she treats the “painting” like a living object that grows organically and continuously. To be more specific, she collects many visual fragments she encounters during daily life or journeys. These fragments include street graffiti, Babylonian architectural patterns, tree silhouettes passing by train windows, and posters in different European cities. In Bi Rongrong’s work, these source materials are presented in a somewhat decorative and abstract way. To the viewers, it is unfamiliar as it is highly personal. But in the meantime, as the visual sources are rooted in people’s common visual experience, deep in the viewers’ mind a sense of empathy will be aroused. Her work ranges from painting, video to installation and textile; and different media give out different senses of visual experiences. Fiction Landscape is a project with vitality. It is subtle and yet specific. With a root in the artist’s personal experience, it manages to evoke viewers’ perception of the nature and the landscape.