房聖易——“渺小的崇高”个人摄影展

    开幕：2009年11月1日下午3点
    地址：北京市朝阳区酒仙桥路4号798工厂内大山子艺术区 百年印象摄影画廊

    被记忆封尘的微观叙事
    文/苏坤阳

    房聖易的作品关注着生活的角落、事物的残破、被隐秘的欲求、暗淡的生命等等，他用最为简陋的工具去关注生活中一切渺小的个体，没有任何的道德批判，只有淡淡的忧愁。平淡的生命体在镜头中慢慢的展开，仿佛蜷缩了许久的植物遇到了细雨的滋润。这种镜头的凝视也是在思考，摄影者以一种摆拍的手法，将作品的现实性和戏剧性巧妙的融合在一起，并用一种早期的摄影语言，将生活中日常的事物以“永恒”的象征语言呈现在观者的面前。图像中的事物，并不是那一刻的感悟，而是从以往到现在直至未来一贯的状态，好像时间在物体身上施展了诅咒，你所能见的是事物在时间中不停的重复自己的悲剧，不停的轮回。现实中微小的问题无从启齿，只为敏感者所能察觉。正如日常生活中的尘埃，在阴影的角落，只因一道阳光它才颗颗呈现。

    对于庸庸碌碌而又渴望前程似锦生活的人，无疑这些图片是渺小的，这只是一片记忆中的死灰，应该随时被扫入垃圾箱。对于生命有灵光的人，这些作品是生活的点点滴滴，是崇高的根本。记载历史中漫步沧桑的，正是平凡角落里这些不经意的瞬间。这些曾经记录着千千万万人思绪的情景，如同人类社会中渺小的个体一样，被消解在由政治、经济、民族等所建构的，宏大的叙事阴影之中。

    Fang Shengyi’s Photography – “Insignificant Nobility”
    798 Photo Gallery invites you to attend “Fang Shengyi’s Photography – “Insignificant Nobility”
 

    Duration: 1st November - 1st December, 2009
    Address: 798 Photo Gallery, 798 Art Zone, No.4 Jiuxianqiao Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing

    The Narrative of the Memory of the Insignificant
    By Su Kunyang

    The photographic art of Fang Shengyi dwells much on the niche of the downtrodden – their broken and bleak lives and their secret hopes and desires. His rudimentary yet elegant techniques describe the pettiness of their lives with a hint of melancholy – and yet without making moral judgment. Just as a parched plant begins to bloom anew after a sudden drizzle of rain, their desperate existence slowly unfolds through the camera’s lens. The afterimage of the lens exposes the mastery of the photographer, who by integrating the realistic and the dramatic reveals the eternal and symbolic language of the commonplace through his photographic language. In a moment of insight, one feels the subjects of the images are in a state consistent with a cursed timeline of past and present, revealing the repetition and rebirths of their tragedies. Like the dust of our daily lives hidden in the shadows until illuminated by a ray of light, the plight of petty is hardly noticed until perceived by the eyes of the sensitive and empathetic.
 

    These images no doubt are unimportant for the down and out, who desire a glorious future yet see their hopes as the dying embers of a fire, soon to be ashes swept into the dustbin. For those who are fortunate or aspire to loftier heights, there is no loftiness – no nobility in these images. Just as a walk through the vicissitude of recorded history, here an extraordinary moment is inadvertently captured in the corner of the ordinary. These scenes capture the thoughts and emotions of the thousands of the unimportant, as if in their own insignificant society, subsumed in the grander scheme of politics, economics, and nation.