開幕酒會：2009年8月1日 下午3點

展覽時間：2009年8月1日至9月27日，週三至週日，11點至下午6點，接受預約

展覽地點：緣分新媒體藝術空間 大山子798藝術區七星東街

Yam Lau

A Hutong House or an Unfolding of Evanescence

Jean-François Côté

Constructing the Image : The City - The Hardware - The Library - The Landscape

The Yuanfen New Media Art Space is honored to showcase French-Canadian artist Jean-François Côté and welcomes the return of Chinese Canadian artist Yam Lau. Jean-François and Yam have come together to create Imagining the Image, a unique exhibit that delves into the perception and conception of the image, moving beyond the typical image vs. reality construct. Although the two artists are divided by differing subject matter and artistic sensibility, they are united in redefining the "image" through experimental logic, weaving together the imaginary, conceptual and concrete.

兩位藝術家的作品，展示了如何將一種"圖像"的新型概念在經典圖像與現實範例的外部加以構造。取代在經典模式化的一端固定一個絕對的界標，兩位藝術家的作品要傳達的是，一個"圖像"是由複雜的維數和強度所組成。忽略在主題和情感上的差異，兩個展覽都將機械裝置作為前景，以這樣的方式，一種"圖像"被拓展的概念可以根據一個邏輯的實驗類型被安排與組裝。

Yam Lau

"The purpose of my work is to subtract weight from the world."

Yam Lau's Hutong House is an animation created in order to capture the special spatial qualities of the traditional Beijing courtyard house. As Hutong House is a digital construction and produced through the assemblage of images it is not enough to be a house. However, as one watches the deconstruction process and evanescence of the Hutong House, the unfolding of the "house" manages to project the illusion of volume, and through this becomes quite real. The breakdown of the components which make up the animation reveal to the audience that it is not merely a hollow visual representation, but a physical house in the land of zeros and ones. Yam notes: "The animation is the construction of a space I would want to go to, its rhythm is a rhythm by which I would like to live. It is a projection of what I admire most in an ideal China." The animation of a disappearing Hutong House may also be a subtle commentary on the disappearance of much of Beijing's cultural heritage in the name of progress.

作品初衷——抽離世界之重

我創作的《四合院》是一部用來理解與留存北京地區一座精巧院落空間的影像作品 。《四合院》集合了不斷變換的圖像與平面，"不足以"被視作房屋。然而，我認為其中"房屋"瞬息萬變的伸展過程呈現出了體量與價值上的虛幻性，這一點隱現于這場幻象之中。

這部影像作品建構出了一種我想要深入其中的空間，並展現出了我所期待的生活節奏，映射出我最為嚮往的"理想中國"。

Jean-François Côté

Jean-Francois' Constructing the Image series is about developing the image by forging together elements from the viewers imagination, the physical and the digital. The works are designed to reveal another type of image, one that does not correspond to any predetermined dimensions or modes of representation. The image is thus virtual in the sense that it is not entirely conditioned by the material reality of any artistic medium. In perceiving this image, the viewer moves inside a work that is not seen or represented. In a way, the viewer walks through the material image of the mediums.

建構圖像：城市-硬體-圖書館-風景

本次展覽是關於在虛構、觀念以及具象等多重維度的複雜關係中所建構圖像的方式。其中的視頻與照片作品揭示出了另外一類圖像，這類圖像不會與任何先在維度或是再現方式相應和，圖像的虛擬性也因此不會因藝術媒介質料的現實感而受限。在感受圖像時，觀者會步入一件未能見過或無法描繪的作品，以某種方式，穿行在各種媒介質料的圖像之間。