午后的迷糊——人类、动物、植物、移民、灵魂 －Elke Marhöfer个展
开幕时间：2010年01月16日（周六）16:00
开放时间：2010年01月19日- 02月06日 (11:00-18:00 星期日、星期一休息)
展览地点：上海市闸北区灵石路709号40栋2楼（近万荣路）
艺 术 家：Elke Marhöfer
策展人：李消非
设计：郭庆玲
主办单位：非艺术中心
合作单位：德国驻上海总领事馆文化教育处
特别感谢：柏林参议院文化事务署、上海创星数码
Opening: Jan 16, 2010 (Saturday) at 16:00
Exhibition Date: Jan 19, 2010 - Feb 06, 2010
Opening Hours: 11:00 am - 18:00 pm (Sunday, Monday closed)
Venue: 709 Lingshi Road, Building No. 40-2F. Shanghai. China.
Artist: Elke Marhöfer
Curator: Li Xiaofei
Designer: Guo Qingling
Organizer: Fei Contemporary Art Center
Partner: Goethe Institute Shanghai
Special thanks to: Berlin Senate Cultural Affairs Department
Shanghai Creative Star
“午后的迷糊 - 移民人类 植物 动物 灵魂”是柏林艺术家Elke Marhöfer在中国的第一个重要个展，将主要展出她最新创作的作品。艺术家使用类似屏风的墙体将展厅分割成几个相对独立的空间。借助这一屏风式的墙面以及独立空间的影像与地面的“白色立方体”构成一个充满各种冲击的矛盾空间。艺术家这次展出的影像作品是对纪录片和人类学电影艺术手法进行的反思，由此重新思考我们如何塑造世界、历史、自身以及他人。然而这并不是为了报道一些事件或不同的文化，更多的是想去探究属于个体的视觉感知。每一部作品都源于同一个哲学观点，即不存在“其他”世界，每一个个体都和其他个体在一起，并由此延伸改变。
展览的主题，让人们怀疑物种及人为定下的属性或种类。普及量化的“人类”、“植物”、动物”概念，仿佛都暗示了当一个生命被创造时就已经被某种类型所决定。然而是否某种非物质波动，如迁徙、变异或鬼魂也在影响着人类、植物和动物呢? “午后的迷糊”正是描述了某种日常的精神状态，一种微小的心智紊乱，缓慢流动。当意识和概念思维自觉撤回的时候，另一些形式的知识就会进入，而这正是展览想要表达的。
immigration humans plants animals ghosts (late afternoon confusion) Elke Marhöfer's solo exhibition
In her first major solo exhibition in China, the Berlin based artist Elke Marhöfer will introduce primarily new works specifically conceived for the exhibition. In the main room of the FCAC, she will install a number of sculptural formations, or pavilions. Within the pavilions, four filmic projects will be presented. Based on this constellation, the individual films will sensually interweave with the "white cube", and generate an ambivalent space, which embraces a number of different impulses. The filmic works in the exhibition meditate on the artistic procedures inherited from documentary and ethnographic film. They re-think how we form the world, history, ourselves and others. But the objective is not to report, for example, on matters concerning different cultures, but to explore one's own visual perception. All the works share the philosophical view that there is no "other" world but that every identity is in conjunction with other identities, and through this will be expanded and changed. The title of the exhibition "immigration humans plants animals ghosts (late afternoon confusion)" suggests a disbelief in the concept of individual species and artificial genus. The generalizing quantities "humans", "plants", "animals" imply that life, while created, is already determined by certain types. But aren't humans, plants and animals influenced and infused by immaterial fluctuations, like migration, mutation and ghosts? The aphorism (late afternoon confusion) describes an everyday state of mind, a tiny mental disorder, a slow flow, when consciousness and conceptual thinking withdraw themselves, and some other form of knowledge enters. This is what the exhibition ought to stimulate.
