第八届济南国际摄影双年展:“异域·同天”中日韩高校摄影邀请展（第二十二期）

高岩 GaoYan

高岩，1980年出生于中国，现任教于天津美术学院摄影艺术系。2008年毕业于法国里昂国立美术学院硕士后阶段(Post-diplôme)。摄影作品先后展览于法国法兰西岛摄影中心、法国里昂当代美术馆、法国里昂天空的蓝当代摄影中心，中国美术馆、上海当代艺术博物馆、南京艺术学院美术馆、重庆器·Haus空间、西安美术馆、日本旧日本银行广岛支店等艺术机构。

《昨天棕榈树看上去像烟火》

《昨天棕榈树看上去像烟火》是高岩近两年频繁往返日本东京，所创作的摄影作品的集合。这里呈现出一些较之前作品气质不同的风格，某种“反创作”的特质。在其游走街头的画面截取中透露出“漠然”与“精确”共存的观看态度，他奋力地保持着某种让观众不至于立即走神的平衡。

摄影永远是一个针对过去时刻的艺术——这可能是最为肤浅的一种理解。在今天，我们看到电视台夜间播出的各种报道、娱乐节目、电视剧等，或者浏览网页，寻找那些心爱之物，和欣赏那些梦想的旅行目的地时，反而对于寻找的行动本身更加止步不前。图像取代了现实的出走。

在《昨天棕榈树看上去像烟火》中，艺术家用烟火来替代所要探讨的是图像在今天是否可以替代人对时间、记忆、路程等的人生体验，还是刺激了另一种体验的可能。用摄影记住一个私人时刻，在今天越来越公众化，每个人都可以通过他人的分享，假想好似亲身经历的旅行。这在消费社会中司空见惯，詹姆逊在《文化转向》中提到：“形象就是商品”，在一定程度上，图像的确引发了人类的商业行为，“图像拜物教”的时代已经到来。如果我们研究人类一生的奥秘，那些理想和现实结果肯定都是霄壤之别，而理想正是个人经历过程中“图像煽动”牵连出的成果。这种一连串的经验，左右着人在选择现实道路的态度。

《昨天棕榈树看上去像烟火》正是制造，或虚构了一个不存在的旅行：这是一个从城市中心到边缘的旅行过程，我们看到打电话的人、吸烟的人、快速走过人、海边漫步的人、在沙丘上欢呼雀跃的人……这其中隐喻着从图像温度到心理温度的折射。在一次次旅行中，艺术家将个人经历混淆在创作中，寻找、茫然、失望、惊喜……他要提示的是，每个人都有幻想寻找烟花般灿烂的奇迹人生，但最终看到的，可能只是一棵树，一棵长得像烟花的棕榈树。

李泊岩

《Yesterday’s Palm Trees Looked Like Fireworks》

Yesterday’s Palm Trees Looked Like Fireworks is a collection of photography works created by Gao Yan who frequently traveled to Tokyo in recent two years. There are some styles different from the previous works, some "anti creation" characteristics. He tried to keep a balance that let the audience not be distracted immediately.

Photography is always an art for past moments, it perhaps the most superficial interpretation. Today, when we see all kinds of reports, entertainment programs, TV dramas, etc, broadcasted by TV stations at night, or browse the web to find those beloved things and appreciate the travel destinations of dreams, we are even more reluctant to move forward in the search. Images take the place of reality.

In Yesterday’s Palm Trees Looked Like Fireworks, the artist uses fireworks to replace people's life experience of time, memory and distance, or whether it stimulates the possibility of another experience. Remembering a personal moment with photography is becoming more and more public today. Everyone can share it with others, and imagine it as a personal experience trip. This is common in the consumer society. Jameson mentioned in his cultural turn that "image is commodity". To a certain extent, image has indeed triggered human commercial behavior. The era of "image fetishism" has come. If we study the mysteries of human life, those ideals and the results of reality are definitely different, and the ideal is the result of "image incitement" in the process of personal experience. This series of experience affects people's attitude in choosing the realistic road.

Yesterday’s Palm Trees Looked Like Fireworks made, or invented, a journey that didn't exist: it was a journey from the center of the city to the edge. We saw people who called, people who smoked, people who walked quickly, people who walked along the beach, people who were cheering on the sand dunes It is a metaphor for the refraction from image temperature to psychological temperature. In one trip after another, the artist confuses his personal experience in his creation, seeking, bewilderment, disappointment, surprise. Everyone has fantasies to look for a miracle life as brilliant as fireworks, but what they finally see may be just a tree, a palm tree that looks like fireworks.

LiBoyan