
勇為|王鼎瞱 個展
Confronting Memories | Wang Ding-Yeh Solo Exhibition
展期|2017.04.29 – 2017.05.27
開幕茶會|2017.04.29 (六) 15:00
座談|2017.05.13 (六) 14:00
與談人|袁廣鳴Yuan Goang-Ming、許芳慈 Hus Fan-Tze
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記憶是閃光
是模糊的片段
是點、是面、是切片
是拼貼、是選擇、是決定、是拿捏
是我們的過去、現在及未來
<勇為>或許是獻給王元芳的展覽,關於他,只能透過家人
(王元芳)早在很久以前過世,當時五個孩子都還年幼,對
然而,面對記憶
我/們 需要勇氣
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Confronting Memories | Wang Ding-Yeh Solo Exhibition
Date|2017.04.29 – 2017.05.27
Opening Receptio|2017.04.29 (Sat.) 15:00
Talk|2017.05.13 (Sat.) 14:00
Discussant|Yuan Goang-Ming、Hus Fan-Tze
Memories are blinking lights;
They are hazy snatches;
They are points, planes, and slices;
They are collages, choices, decisions, deliberations,
As well as our past, present, and future.
Confronting Memories is probably an exhibition dedicated to Yuanfang Wang whom can be modelled only upon the memories his family remembered, according to which I exercise my imagination to depict this figure. Such a figment of imagination refers not so much directly to Yuanfang Wang as to the zeitgeist of his times or myself.
Yuanfang Wang died a long time ago when his five children were too young to gain a clear impression about him. On top of that, their memories of him have faded over the course of time. His family created a LINE group titled “Memory 226” (226 is the postcode of the Sanxing district of Yilan County, Taiwan), within which their fading memories have been preserved, pieced up, revised, and corrected. Besides, the family members may rekindle one another’s memories in which sentiments are interlaced with remembrance. In this way, part of Wang’s transient life has been restored, and it further mirrors the historical context of his times. The title of this exhibition features the courage to confront memories and the reconstruction of subjectivity with the fragments of memories. The slices of memories perch on our own fantasies. Memories, like dust, have been alight upon clouds and closely connected to the real world through visceral thrills, light-spots, and choices. Memories are not only the mapping of our positions and conditions, but also the outbound route along which the subject accesses its immediate environment.
However, confronting memories takes great courage.
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王鼎曄
1978年生於台北,2011年獲得德國德勒斯登高等藝
Wang Ding-Yeh
Wang Ding-Yeh, born in 1978 in Taipei, has received the degree of Meisterschule from the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts (Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden) in 2011. He specializes in video installation and painting. The themes of his works primarily focus on issues concerning his life, the society, and the environment. He firmly believes that people will be able to resist or connect themselves with the external world and meanwhile achieve self-healing through artistic creation. His works have been exhibited in Taiwan, the United States, Israel, France, and Germany.