The Song of Memory
记忆之声 (2020)

对自我身份认同的疑惑以及浓烈的怀旧情绪使我决定在个人实践中探索记忆这个主题。我开始回顾以前的照片，以前喜欢的歌…渐渐的我迷上了胶卷类摄影与音乐。因为胶卷本身即时且不可修改的特性，照片中留下的是最真实的记忆，是事物曾经存在的痕迹。通过静止的照片我们得以追溯那些飞去的时光，那个暂停正是罗兰巴特所说的“曝光时刻”：过去与现在的交汇处。

我开始尝试整理我认为对我最重要的十个记忆或物件，并且用胶卷相机记录下来。 但每个人的记忆都不一样，我的照片都是零散的，无序的，观众无法获得体验中的时空连续性。通过对proust effect的研究，我使用了经过模糊化与放大的照片，试图通过照片来传达一种“暧昧的”情绪而不是一个具体的故事，如同大脑皮层中的内隐记忆一样。我想要从一个混合媒体艺术实践者的角度出发，去探索多感官体验触发人们的记忆的方式。

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The doubts about my identity and a strong sense of nostalgia led me to explore the subject of memory in my own practice. I started going back to my old photos, my old favorite songs... and I became obsessed with film photography and music. Because of the instant and unmodifiable nature of the film itself, what is left in the photograph is the truest memory, the trace of something that once existed. We trace the fleeting moment through the stillness of the photograph, and that pause is what Roland Barthes calls "exposure" : where the past and present meets. I began to try to organize what I thought were my ten most important memories or objects, and to record them on film. However, everyone's memory is different, my photos are scattered, disorganized, and the viewer can not get the space-time continuum of the experience. Inspired by my research on Proust effect, I used blurred and enlarged photographs to convey an "ambiguous" mood rather than a concrete story, like implicit memories in the cerebral cortex. I want to explore the ways in which multi-sensory experiences trigger people's memories from the perspective of a mixed-media art practitioner.