裂隙岩|Into the Rift

高清影像 / Hd video / 17:05 / 2019-2023

影像作品《裂隙岩》是“逃亡的人”系列的终章。作品以记忆为起点，通过图像、文本与数字化材料，探讨经验在不同媒介与时间尺度中的断裂与重构。 

影片中的摄影档案来自一位逃亡者-徐洪慈的拍摄手记。上世纪90年代，他在平反之后重返苦役之地，拍下了这一系列故地重游的照片。在这里，摄影与文字作为保存记忆的媒介既展现出惊人的叙事力量，也同时暴露出其自身的脆弱，就像我使用Lidar扫描所生成的公园影像——尽管被数字记录，却依然残缺，破碎。戏谑的图示着我们不可复原的经验。

在影像的展开过程中，个体生命经验逐渐退居为背景，图像与文本成为一系列问题的触发点：我们如何去记录过往经验？媒介是否能成为见证的依据？而当我们意识到记忆终将融化于“时间”之后，又将留下怎样的痕迹？ 因此，《裂隙岩》更像一次漫步，带着种种疑问试图进入时间与意识之间的缝隙，在历史，记忆以及更漫长的地质时间中回旋往复，却放弃对真像的打捞。

 裂隙岩 / 截图/Into the Rift / stills

 裂隙岩 / 截图/Into the Rift / stills

裂隙岩 / 截图/Into the Rift / stills

 裂隙岩 / 截图/Into the Rift / stills

裂隙岩 / 截图/Into the Rift / stills

Into the Rift is the final chapter of the series The Fugitive. Taking memory as its point of departure, the work brings together images, texts, and digital materials to reflect on how experience fractures and is reconfigured across different media and temporal scales.

The photographic archive in the film comes from photographs and written notes left by an escapee, Xu Hongci. In the 1990s, after being politically rehabilitated, he returned to the place where he had once been subjected to forced labor and took a series of photographs during this revisiting of former sites. Here, photography and writing, as media for preserving memory, reveal both their remarkable narrative power and their inherent fragility. This fragility echoes the park imagery generated through my LiDAR scans: although digitally recorded, the scene remains fragmented and incomplete, as if ironically illustrating the irrecoverable nature of our lived experience.

As the film unfolds, individual life experience gradually recedes into the background, while images and texts become triggers for a series of questions: How do we record past experiences? Can media serve as reliable grounds for witnessing? And once we realize that such fragile memories will eventually sink into time, how should we act?

Into the Rift therefore, resembles a kind of wandering. Carrying these questions, the film attempts to enter the fissure between time and memory, moving back and forth between historical narration and the far longer scale of geological time, while abandoning the desire to retrieve the truth.

 裂隙岩 / 截图/Into the Rift / stills

 裂隙岩 / 截图/Into the Rift / stills

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“每一次沉默都是隐蔽空间” 美凯龙艺术中心“花厅计划”现场

All Silence Is A Hidden Space, exhibition view at The Cloisters Project support by Maclline Art Center

摄影：叶枫荻

Photo by Fengdi Ye