失真的馬可波羅

與藝術家翻看畫冊時，聊到馬可波羅，馬可波羅是誰？大家?guī)缀跬瑫r說出了不同的答案：旅行家、瓷磚、游戲里的二線角色。“馬可波羅是誰”已經不重要，他成為了數個符號，正在被豐富的同時也不斷被分解，各自游離于原型生產出了不同的摹本，出現在印刷品、地板和視頻里。摹本被有規(guī)律地撒播在各處，人們各取所需，分別消費，在此過程中“馬可波羅”變成一個不斷失真的“擬像”。

“擬像理論”是鮑德里亞最重要的理論之一，他認為，正是傳媒的推波助瀾加速了從現代生產領域向后現代擬像(Simulacra)社會的墮落。而當代社會，則是由大眾媒介營造的一個仿真社會。本次展覽的藝術家大多都是出生于九十年代后期，是與自媒體共同成長的一代，他們（她）以不同方式回應了“擬像社會”的視覺立場。在當下，或許馬可波羅的擬像無處不在。大量失真的信息和碎片化的認知方式把人們導向誤讀。問題在于如何處理和使用這些充滿噪點的信息？能否在眾多差異和蹤跡之中建立自己的真實判斷？也許是當今時代發(fā)出的詰問。

Vague Marco Polo

While leafing through the albums of painting with artists, we talked about Marco Polo. But who is Marco Polo? Different people can provide different answers almost at the same time: a traveller, a brand of ceramic, and a second-line role in electronic games. The answer of “who is Marco Polo” may be no longer important, because the name or the image, being enriched while being continually split, has become numerous symbols, respectively dissociating from the original archetype and becoming different copies, being used in print products, ceramic designs, and videos. Those copies have been regularly scattered everywhere, enabling people to consume for what they need, and in this process “Marco Polo” has become a vaguer and vaguer “simulacrum”. ***

Simulacra Theory is one of the most important theories of Baudrillard, who believes it is just the mass media that has accelerated the deterioration from modern field of production towards post-modern simulacra society, and the contemporary society in nature is a simulated one built by the mass media. The artists involved in this exhibition were mostly born in the late 1990s and they have grown up together with the we-media. In these works, they respond with different modes to the visual stance of the “Simulacra Society”. At present, maybe the simulacra of Marco Polo can be seen everywhere, and vast vague information and fragmented cognitive styles may also misinterpret people’s orientation. However, the question still lies in the methods we use not only to dispose and utilize the information that is full of noisy points, but also to build our own real judgement in the midst of numerous discrepancies and traces. Perhaps this is also the question put forward by the present era. ***

展覽團隊

2023.12.11