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，保存与重构。
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，它们保存痕迹，却无法让后来者重新进入当事人的经验。被留下的记录因此始终处在一种暧昧状态之中：它们既构成我们接近过去的依据，也不断提醒着我，“记录”并不能等同于真相。
而我使用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。同样的，这些技术性的破损更接近一种认识上的限制：每一次记录都在保存某些东西，同时改变它、删减它，并重新组织它。因此我们所面对的，从来不是一个可以被完整召回的过去。
随着影像展开，个体的生命经验，逐渐转向承载这些经验的图像、文字与数字痕迹。我逐渐意识到，自己与徐洪慈的经验之间始终存在一道无法被消除的距离。作为后来者，我无法确信这些被留下的记录足以代表他所经历的事实，也逐渐对重新讲述他人的痛苦产生伦理上的犹豫。于是，作品不再试图借助档案还原一段完整的逃亡经历，而开始面对另一个问题：当他人的经验只能通过图像、文字与碎片化的媒介被接近时，后来者究竟能够理解到什么，又应该在什么位置停止言说。
《裂隙岩》因此更像一次漫步。它在历史叙述、个人记忆与更为漫长的地质时间之间回旋往复。地质时间的进入进一步削弱了人对于保存和见证的确信：生命、记忆与媒介留下的痕迹，在更为漫长的时间尺度中都显得短暂而不稳定。作品最终不试图从这些裂隙中打捞出一个完整、确定的真相，而是保留那些无法被填补的距离，并将这种距离本身作为理解他人经验的一部分。
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