文/张容玮

理论物理学家李·斯莫林（Lee Somlin）说：“在人类的感知中，时间意味着改变。”科学把时间规定为对所有人都同等有效的由时、分、秒等单位构成的无悲无喜的线性结构。尽管每个“文明人”都无法逃脱这个结构的控制，时间的速度、轻重、内容和情绪等因素对不同的人来说却是全然不同的。毕竟，活在这纷繁芜杂且一刻不停的世界中，所有人都在或主动或被动地应对着各式各样无法预知的改变，随之而来的便是令我们沉迷其中不可自拔的各种情绪和故事。时间就像天空，正如有了天空才有云卷云舒、雷霆雨露，身处时间、或者说身处于不间断的改变之中，我们才有悲欢离合、喜怒哀乐。

应对着这些改变，我们不断到达新的处境，也不断收获和修改着我们的记忆。定义“记忆”的难度是极大的。我们都在很大程度上依靠它来决策，却又无法逃脱它给我们带来的局限。有人靠它维持自己在不断的改变之中的“真我”；也有人靠记忆来平衡或逃脱当下的不如意；有人认为在记忆中能找到一切心理问题的根源；也有一些群体的成员靠着相同的记忆来维持着彼此的认同。只是，以上种种都无法精确或完整地定义记忆。记忆是我们最核心的成分之一，我们变着法地使用着它，却很少意识到我们对它的依赖和使用。

真正触及时间、记忆内核的艺术创作绝不是通过绘画、雕塑、装置等手段对时间和记忆赋予某种“定义”，而是创作者应对时间变化的一个“完整经验”。“完整经验”这一概念由实用主义哲学家约翰·杜威（John Dewey）提出，与充斥着我们生活的那些难以点明其起点与终结并且很难给我们带来情绪波动的琐事不同，“完整经验”起始于经验者的“主观冲动”而终结于她们感到的“完满”。

因此，以时间和记忆为主题的艺术创作并不需要一个明确的意义或故事作为起点，创作者开启她/他的创作所需的只是“要对时间带来的改变和自己的记忆做些什么”的冲动，比如想象过去的其他可能性，或者是重构某个自己沉湎其中的往昔。始于这样的冲动，结束于创作者在她的过程和作品中感到“完满”之时。

只是，创作者无法回避的事实是，她们的创作进行于“当下”，“当下”这一时间点的影响不可避免，此时的她们也早已不是记忆中的她们，带着不同时期的思想和关注，“时间和记忆”这一命题注定是一次“当下”与“记忆”的争执。

“时间和记忆”乍看之下像是以过去或已知为导向的话题，实际上是不折不扣的“创新”。给予创作者冲动的记忆并非她创作的预设终点而是她创作的材料，创作者通过操弄它们来与“当下”进行争执。这种争执的完结并非是“当下”或“过去”其中一方的胜利，而是双方的一种融合，“当下”被赋予了“过去”的气质，而“过去”也在“当下”获得了新生。

本次展览展出的是五位创作者以各自的方式应对他们在时间中遭遇改变的完整经验。展出的作品无法为时间或记忆提供定义，它们展示的是我们都不得不面对的“如何应对时间带来的改变”以及“记忆在我们应对这些改变时究竟扮演的是何种角色”的问题。尽管艺术作品必然是创作者的主观产物，本次展览展出的却并非创作者为自己而创作的“孤芳自赏”式作品。本次展品在“时间与记忆”这一命题下以不同的角度给出了可视化的呈现，这些呈现虽不足以成为对“时间和记忆”的成熟理解，但他们可以为观众提供一个理解和思考时间和记忆的新角度。

崔沁

1991 年生于广东湛江，生活与工作于广州。获得伯恩茅斯艺术大学模型制作学士学位，于广州美术学院雕塑高级研修班进修学习 2 年。获得格拉斯哥美术学院艺术实践专业硕士学位。曾在中国、伦敦、格拉斯哥和克罗地亚举办多个团体展览。

范诗磊

青年艺术家，毕业于英国格拉斯哥美术学院，生活、工作于深圳。获得英国苏格兰皇家学院授予的查默斯·杰维斯奖，第 22 届日本新媒介艺术节选择奖等奖项；作品被英国雕塑装置工作组、福建省美术馆等机构和个人收藏。

马壮

1995 年生于辽宁朝阳，博士在读，现于深圳。2017 年毕业于鲁迅美术学院摄影系，获学士学位，同年进入鲁迅美术学院摄影系攻读硕士学位，于 2020 年获得硕士学位。2018 至 2019 年进入格拉斯哥美术学院攻读艺术摄影方向研究生，获卓越学位。

王雪莹

1992 年出生于中国天津。2020 年获得英国格拉斯哥艺术学院纯美术实践硕士学位。个人研究涉及视觉经验、私人空间、存在主义心理学等。同时，作为中国艺术家，也关注将中国哲学逻辑注入到个人的当代艺术创作实践当中。

陈观亨

毕业于广州美术学院版画系，青年策展人，广州觀空间前艺术总监，现深圳市木星美术馆策展总监

张容玮

广东珠海人，2020 年毕业于英国格拉斯哥美术学院，获美术学博士学位，为该校史上首位中国籍博士。目前于中国美术学院视觉中国协同创新中心从事博士后研究工作，研究方向为当代绘画的实践与理论。

展览信息

展览时间
2022.09.24-2022.10.23

展览地点
木星美术馆C展厅
深圳市福田区蓝花道 6 号

主办方
深圳市木星美术馆

协办方
無設事務所
共聚物
白底艺术工作室

From 24 September 2022 to 23 October 2022, Jupiter Museum of Art will present "The Past and Present", a group exhibition of young artists that explores the theme of "time and memory" by giving the complete experiences of five artists as they cope with the changes caused by time. The exhibition is free and open to the public.

Author/ Zhang Rongwei

Theoretical physicist Lee Somlin said, "In human perception, time means to change." Science has defined time as a linear structure of hours, minutes, and seconds equally valid for all people, without sorrow or joy. Although every "civilized person" cannot escape the control of this structure, the speed, weight, content and emotion of time are completely different for different people. After all, living in this chaotic and ever-changing world, we actively or passively deal with unpredictable changes. With them come all kinds of emotions and stories that we can't help but be addicted to. Time is like the sky, just as the sky has clouds, thunder and rain. We have sadness, joy, happiness and sorrow in time or amid unceasing change.

We constantly arrive at new situations and continue harvesting and modifying our memories in response to these changes. The difficulty of defining "memory" is enormous. We all rely heavily on it to make decisions, yet we cannot escape the limitations it imposes on us. Some people rely on it to maintain their "true selves" amid constant change, others rely on memory to balance or escape from the present, some believe we can find the root of all psychological problems in memory. And there are groups of people who rely on the same memories to maintain their identity with each other. But none of them can define memory precisely. Memory is one of our most central components, and we use it in different ways but rarely realize how much we rely on and use it.

Art creation that genuinely touches the core of time and memory is never a definition of time and memory through painting, sculpture, or installation but rather a "complete experience" of the creator's response to changes in time. The concept of "complete experience" was introduced by the pragmatist philosopher John Dewey. Unlike the trivial things that fill our lives, which are difficult to specify their beginnings and endings and hardly give us any emotional fluctuations, "complete experience "begins with the experiencer's "subjective impulse" and ends with the "completion" they feel.

Thus, the art creation on the theme of time and memory does not need a clear meaning or story as a starting point, artists need to start their work only with the urge to "do something about the changes brought about by time and their own memories", such as imagining other possibilities of the past or reconstructing a certain past in which they dwell. The impulse It begins with such an impulse and ends when the artists feel "complete" in their process and artworks.

However, the artist cannot avoid the fact that they are working in the "present" and that the influence of the "present" is inevitable, and that they are not the same as those in their memories, carrying ideas and concerns from different time. The proposition of "time and memory" is destined to be a dispute between "the present" and "memory".

"Time and Memory", which at first glance appears to be a topic oriented towards the past or the known, is actually a true "innovation". The memories that give the artist the impulse to create are not the pre-determined end of their work but the material on which their work, and by manipulating them the artist contends with the "present". The end of this dispute is not a victory for either the "present" or the "past", but a fusion of the two sides, with the "present" being given the air of the "past". The "present" is given the air of the "past", and the "past" is given a new lease of life in the "present".

The "now" is given the temperament of the "past", and the "past" is given a new life in the "present".

This exhibition presents the complete experience of five creators who have responded in their way to the changes they have encountered in time. The works on view do not define time or memory but instead, present how we all have to deal with the changes brought about by time and what role memory plays in our response to these changes. Although artworks are necessarily the subjective product of their creators, this exhibition is not a "self-congratulatory" work created by the creator for himself. The exhibits are visualizations of "time and memory" from different perspectives, which are insufficient for a mature understanding of "time and memory." However, they can give the viewer a new perspective on learning and thinking about time and memory, Perspective.

Cui Qin

Born in 1991 in Zhanjiang, Guangdong lives and works in Guangzhou. He received a B.A. in Model Making Program from Arts University Bournemouth and studied for two years at The Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts in the Advanced Sculpture Course. She received her M.A. in Art Practices from The Glasgow School of Art. He has held several group exhibitions in China, London, Glasgow and Croatia.

Fan Shi Lei 

A young artist who graduated from The Glasgow School of Art, lives and works in Shenzhen. He has received Chalmers-Jervise Prize from The Royal Scottish Academy, the 22nd Japan New Media Arts Festival Choice Award, and so on. The British Sculpture Installation Working Group, Fujian Provincial Art Museum and other institutions and individuals have collected his works.

Ma Zhuang

Born in 1995 in Chaoyang, Liaoning, he is studying for his PhD. He graduated from the Photography Department of Luxun Academy of Fine Arts with a B.A. in 2017. He entered the Photography Department of Luxun Academy of Fine Arts with an M.A. in the same year, receiving his M.A. in 2020. From 2018 to 2019, he entered the Glasgow School of Art with a Distinction in Art Photography.

Xueying Wang

Born in Tianjin, China, in 1992, she received her M.A. in Fine Art Practice from The Glasgow School of Art in 2020. Her research involves visual experience, private space, and existential psychology. Also, as a Chinese artist, she is concerned with infusing Chinese philosophical logic into her practice of contemporary art creation.

Chen Guanheng

He is a young curator who graduated from the Printmaking Department of the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, former Art Director of Guangzhou Guanxing Space, and now is the curatorial director of Jupiter Museum of Art.

Zhang Rongwei

Born in Zhuhai, Guangdong. He graduated from the Glasgow School of Art with a PhD in Fine Art in 2020, the first Chinese PhD in the school. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher at The Centre for Chinese Visual Studies in Visual China of China Academy of Art, where his research focuses on the practice and theory of contemporary painting.

Exhibition Information

Time

2022.09.24-2022.10.23

Location

Hall C Jupiter Museum of Art

No.6 Lanhua Road, Futian District, Shenzhen

Organizer

Jupiter Museum of Art

Co-organizer

With Design

Co-matters

WhiteEndArt