【展讯】严佳林个展——美梦的缝隙｜厦门
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严佳林个展
美梦的缝隙
策展人：肖瑞昀
艺术总监：滕青云
主办：三影堂厦门摄影艺术中心
展期：2023.11.11 - 12.17（周一闭馆）
开幕：2023.11.25 15:00
地址：厦门市集美区杏林湾营运中心2号楼裙楼三层
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美梦的缝隙，是在明晃晃的梦境间，躲藏着一处现实的阴影。
严佳林记录着一部分生活在海南万宁的年轻群体。这些年轻人是对现实生活的反叛者，他们带着冲浪板深入海洋，远离城市的嘈杂和刻板的规则，感受着一种截然不同的生活节奏。他们的身体充满了青春、躁动和不安定，生活明媚而自在。
选自《美梦的缝隙》系列
Fissure of a Sweetdream Series
照片呈现了海洋或丛林的场景，也是他们日常生活所在，自然主义和嬉皮精神融入其中。他们观察和体会自然，行为看似无所事事，实则在创造当下的自由时间。照片从白天到黄昏，海洋给予他们包容和治愈，热带丛林则散发神秘和忧郁的氛围，引导观者感受野性的世界。随着夜幕降临，视频作品呈现着一首抽象的影像诗，由严佳林的声音娓娓道来，观众随着一位女性的背影踏入深邃的夜。
选自《美梦的缝隙》系列
Fissure of a Sweetdream Series
严佳林并非以田野的方式记录，而是更在意每一位个体当下的情感。她在拍摄前产生真诚的对话，也将找寻自我的困境投射到拍摄之中，因此从照片可以感受到更细腻的情绪流动。细看这组照片，从不少直视镜头的眼神中看到他们的欲望。这些瞬间常常是在对话的“缝隙”中捕捉到的，即严佳林和被拍摄者话语之间的短暂停顿间，在眼神接触的瞬间透露着一股真实的“心流”——疏离和缺失感。
选自《美梦的缝隙》系列
Fissure of a Sweetdream Series
选自《美梦的缝隙》系列
Fissure of a Sweetdream Series
当日子过久了，幻想世界褪色和祛魅，或是现实中日益增长旅游业的侵蚀和生活成本的压力，年轻人开始意识到过往是某种自我实现的幻想，于是一些人开始质疑乌托邦，并暂别这个地方。这是这群年轻人所经历的——有些人选择离开，而另一些人又进来，他们没有对这片土地最终的归属，但土地承载着对乌托邦有期许的人。在来来往往的过程中，日常与幻想的边界变得模糊不清，这群年轻人在此探寻乌托邦、告别乌托邦、或成为乌托邦。
选自《美梦的缝隙》系列
Fissure of a Sweetdream Series
展览入口处正对面的水面倒影前晃荡着一把秋千，还有一张藤床任由观者躺卧。观者将体验到快乐和舒适间伴随着一点不安，就像在一场“美梦的缝隙”中醒来，现实的不确定性逐渐涌上心头。就如鲍德里亚讨论的现代性问题，自由的狂欢是对现代性的痛苦修正，这必然是矛盾的。（1）
● 文/肖瑞昀
注
[1]《临界：鲍德里亚访谈录》，当代哲学家让·鲍德里亚与记者菲利普·帕蒂的访谈。
艺术家
严 佳林
严佳林，1992年生于中国福州。她的摄影主要围绕着个人和群体失去的记忆和情感展开，她总是试图通过摄影来探索记忆被抛弃的过程。她2016年毕业于英国纽卡斯尔大学国际金融分析专业。目前，她的主要工作围绕着摄影、策展、撰稿展开。
她的作品赢得了2023年首届女性纪实摄影基金会支持，并入围了2022年的Lensculture Critics' Choice Awards ，日本IMA Next主题摄影奖等。她的作品被英国British Journal of Photography ，加拿大Broad Magazine，法国Fisheye Magazine等杂志收录推荐，并在纽约、罗马、茨城市等地展出。她于2022年以策展人的身份参与集美·阿尔勒国际摄影季“在地行动”单元。
Jialin Yan’s Solo Exhibiton
Fissure of a Sweetdream
Curator: Xiao Ruiyun
Art Director: Teng Qingyun
Organiser: Three Shadows Xiamen Photography Art Centre
Duration: Nov 11, 2023 - Dec 17, 2023
Opening: Nov 25, 2023 15:00
Venue: 3rd Floor of Building 2, Xinglinwan Business Centre, Jimei District, Xiamen
"Fissure of a Sweetdream" is a series talking about where the shadow of reality hides between the shiny dream.
Jialin Yan documented a group of young people living in Wanning, Hainan. These young people are rebels against the mainstream adult life. They go deep into the ocean with their surfboards, far away from the noise and constrained code of the city, while experiencing a very divergent rhythm of life. They are filled with vitality, restlessness, and brightness both physically and mentally.
选自《美梦的缝隙》系列
Fissure of a Sweetdream Series
Through the series of images, in which a naturalistic and hippie spirit integrated, it is clear to see the original inspiration from the ocean and the forest for people living with. The group built their own biological clock to freely live at the moment by exploring and enjoy the nature even it looks like they were letting go of adulthood responsibility. Moreover, the photographs taken from dawn to dusk, which demonstrate a sense of mercy and healing, bring the mysterious and melancholic atmosphere for audiences. As the last part of this exhibition, the night-fall video presents in poetic form with Jialin Yan's monologue. It will lead the audience gently sneak into the deep night with the back of a woman in the video.
选自《美梦的缝隙》系列
Fissure of a Sweetdream Series
When it comes to the core of this series, Jialin Yan concentrated more on individual emotional journey currently rather than researching in a way of fieldwork. To be more specific, she insisted that the sincere conversation was the premise of every shutter click consistently and consequently felt a projection of her own predicament through it. Besides, many people from the group were gazing at the camera when their desire are explicitly captured by the lens. That it is why the audience are easily touched by delicate flows of every private emotion once they get close to the detail of each piece of work. Generally, these flows are caught in the “fissure” of conversations, which consist of the short pauses occurred in the conversation between Jialin Yan and the person in her photo. A sense of alienation and absence result in a real flow, although the camera interfered direct eye contact from the photographer to the photographed people.
选自《美梦的缝隙》系列
Fissure of a Sweetdream Series
Due to the reason that people have adjusted to the island life with soaring cost of living caused by the rapid growth of tourism, one idea came up to them that their imaginary utopia has gradually fading and it was more likely to become a sort of self-fulfilling illusion. As a matter of fact, some began to doubt the authenticity of this “sweet dream” and take a break from it. People, like this group, come and go instead of gaining a sense of belonging to the land afterwards after this promising land had used to carrying the expectations among them. For the meantime, the boundaries between reality and illusion become loosen, they came, left and finally became a sort of representative metaphor of utopia.
选自《美梦的缝隙》系列
Fissure of a Sweetdream Series
Back to the exhibition, an installation of a swing, which is facing the entrance, is set right upon the wallpaper of a green pool. In addition, there is a rattan bed for audience in the middle of the venue to simulate of the situation when people wake up interrupted from "Fissure of a Sweetdream". Their pleasure and comfort might be accidentally intervened by the inevitably consequent anxiety as the uncertainty of reality gradually surge into the forefront of their mind. As Baudrillard's discussion of modernity, the carnival of freedom is a painful correction of modernity, which is inevitably contradictory. (1)
● Text/ Xiao Ruiyun
Note
(1) Le Paroxyste indifférent. Entretiens avec Philippe Petit, a interview with a contemporary philosopher Jean Paudrillard and French journalists Philippe Pelit.
ARTIST
Jialin Yan
Jialin Yan，born in 1992, Fuzhou, China. Her photography mainly revolves around the lost memories and emotions of individuals and groups while she always tries to explore the process of memory abandonment through image taking. She graduated from Newcastle University, UK, majoring in International Financial Analysis in 2016. Currently, she works mainly as a photographer, curator and article contributor.
Her photography ran into the finalist of the first Female Documentary Photography Foundation 2023, and shortlisted for Lensculture Critics' Choice Awards 2022, IMA Next, etc. Her work has been featured by the British Journal of Photography (UK), Broad Magazine (CA), Photography of China, Fisheye Magazine (FR), WUL Magazine (IL) and other magazines and has been exhibited in New York, Rome, Ibaraki, etc. She has taken part in curation of Jimei x Arles International Photo Festival "Local Action" 2022.
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