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2022.06.11
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Hanna Margetson-Rushmore✎
Hanna Margetson-Rushmore艺术家、策展人，语言的创新者。
Artist, curator, language innovator.
想象你面前有一组被包裹在石膏里的雕塑。每件作品都附有信息，标明了藏匿在石膏内的物体是什么，但你无法看到这些物品本身。我们能对这些信息给予多大的信任？我们有多愿意去相信，哪怕我们看不到这些物体，它们也确实在那里？我们可以接受这样的事实吗？我们需要去接受吗？面对这个物体的衍生物，或者说它的痕迹，我们会做何反应？
隐匿物体这一行为本身是一种宣言，让你对所感知到的事物，以及你观看事物的方式，产生质疑。隐匿是对信息的隐瞒，通过移除、阻碍或隐藏的方式，在一些情况下，也是对“真相”的阻绝。然而，隐匿的行为自身也可以成为照亮或揭示另一种不同“真相”的手段。对于这些“雕塑”而言，对物体的隐匿为提问与反思创造了空间。与其执拗于雕塑的字面意义或表象，观者可以自由地挖掘它们在概念层面的含义。这揭示了作品的全新一面：如果不拘泥于真相，观者便得以接受作品潜在的可能。
Imagine you are presented with a series of sculptures that are objects encased in plaster. Each is labeled with information on what object is encased but you are unable to see the objects themselves. How much can we trust the information that is given to us? How willing are we to accept that these objects are in fact there if we cannot see them? Can we accept it? Do we need to? What is our reaction to this derivative or trace of the object? The very act of concealing the object is a statement, making you question what you are perceiving and how you look at things.
To conceal is to withhold information, by removing or preventing something or hiding it from view; in some cases preventing the “truth” from coming out. Yet the very act of concealment can be a vehicle to highlight and reveal an alternative or different “truth.” With these “sculptures” the objects’ concealment makes space for the questioning to occur. Instead of focusing on the literal meaning or image of the sculptures the viewer is free to delve into their conceptual meaning. It reveals something new about the work, by not insisting on the truth it enables acceptance of the potentiality of what the work could be.