The Water Reveals
2020
Print, silicon, water
打印，硅胶与水
H 50cm, L 40cm, W 30cm
The Positive
正型
The Negative
负型
From Narcissus to the invention of Photography, which had developed into Photogrammetry soon after and envoled into 3D scanning technology nowadays, we’ve been able to observe ourselves and our positions in the world objectively in a much more continual, detailed way of seeing. The authenticity, which used to be the core motivation behind these technologies, has now been disolved due to our reproduction, transportation and manipulation towards image.
In this work, I tried to make the 3D-scanned image of myself melt into water, inhabit the water. Hence, a symbiosis connection with a temporal material is built. Water with image becomes a vitalized medium and metaphor to demonstrate the position of digital representation that lying between physical body and external world. The digital image in this work shows its softness and fragility as well as our physical body in real time.
The negative form is made of silicon, it's the objective external that shaped from the outline of my body and it remains still all the time. The positive form is made of ice, it represents my physical body which is inevitable and subtle as it would defrost, shrink, liquify, dry out and disappear. The 3D-scanned image is a digital printing corresponding to the shape of physical body. The video shows both physical and digital reproduction sharing a sequence of presence in time and space.
从希腊神话中沉醉于水面倒影的纳西瑟斯，到摄影技术的发明及由此延伸的摄影测量法，演变到当今3D扫描技术，我们能够越来越客观，细致且频繁地观察自己。这些技术原本代表着一种真实性，如今却受到复制能力，传播技术和数字图像处理软件的影响，被逐渐消解。在这件作品中，通过将自己的3D扫描图像溶于水中，我想给图像复制品一种新的载体，并栖居于此。由此，水，作为一种观察时间的工具，与图像之间建立了一个共生关系。水中像作为一种富含生命力的媒介，隐喻了数字复制品在本体和外部世界之间所处的位置。数字图像在这个作品中呈现了他的柔软与脆弱，也正如我们的身体。
视频结尾，正型逐步融化，坍缩，流逝，消失，剩下负型与残留的数字图像碎片。