photography, text 

攝影、文字
2013, 2014
SLY Art Space, Fu Jen Art Gallery in Taipei, and Soulangh Cultural Park in Tainan

於新樂園藝術空間「李依樺個展」、輔仁藝廊及蕭壠文化園區「繽紛女聲--國際攝影展」展出

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In my mind, there are plenty of wonderful images which I yearn for all the time.  The perfection yet un-attainability of these wonderful images turn the idea of wonderfulness into an ideal.

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I ask 50 friends about the wonderful image in their minds.  I find out that people are still pursuing the possibility of the wonderfulness.  It may be the nostalgia of the wonderful experiences in the past.  It may be a craving for an ideal state either in the future or in imagination.  By reproducing the circumstances or playing the role, I attempt to achieve the wonderfulness and interpret others’ wonderfulness from my viewpoint.  I create several wonderful stories even by self-performing the interviewee, tinted with my personal imagination to a certain degree.  The reproduced wonderfulness, as such, may diverge from their expectation, revealing the discrepancy between reality and imagination.  Perhaps, the wonderfulness can only exist in imagination. 

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The wonderfulness is conveyed, received, subjectively comprehended, and then interpreted.  Hundreds of the wonderful images that I gather are re-presented and re-narrated through images, writings, and installation art.  With the interweaving of reality and ideality, this project attempts to form various emotional projections and perception from the audiences. 

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This way to fulfill the wonderfulness imperceptibly enlarges the distance between itself and reality.  However, such act also represents the desire for wonderfulness in concrete and real-life experiences.  It makes this desire a real, authentic feel and experience.  Even though the reality is not always about one’s wish fulfilled, the slight individual desire is still positive and wonderful in a world that incessantly moves forward anyway.

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我心中一直有幾個美好的畫面，關於”美好”，我有許多想望，”美好”也因其完美且難以實現的特質而更成為某種理想。

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我詢問了50位友人，關於他們心中那個”美好”是什麼? 我發現人們仍然在追求美好的可能，有些是留戀過去的美好經驗，有些是寄情於未來或想像中的理想狀態。我嘗試將這些”美好”以情境再造、角色演繹等方式實現，並試圖用我的視角去詮釋他人的”美好”，加諸主觀的想像，虛構出一段段的美好故事。如此再現的”美好”可能跟本人心中的期待有差距，透露出真實與虛幻的距離，也或許”美好”只能存在想像裡。

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集結的近百種”美好”歷經傳遞和接收，經過主觀的解讀與再次詮釋，以影像、裝置、文字重新敘事呈現，現實和理想相互交錯，企圖形成觀者各種不同情緒上的投射與感知。

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此種實現”美好”的方式無形中放大了其與現實的差異，然而這樣的行動也將對於”美好”的想望具體放在現實生活的經驗當中，成為一種真實的生存感受，即使現實並不總是如願，在不論如何都將持續向前運轉的世界裡，渺小的個人願望仍是積極且美好的。

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