An Open-Air Collection and A Map (2017)

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《一個露天收藏和一張地圖》是我2017年夏末在西班牙的羅塔鎮所創作的一個駐村計畫。羅塔位於西班牙南部的加的斯，是一個以觀光為主的濱海小鎮。身為一個路過的藝術家（a.k.a不專業觀光客），雖然我也很想快點去拜訪各個出名的觀光景點，不過我更好奇當地居民都去哪裡。我拜訪、詢問當地不同職業、年齡的善心人士，請他們介紹我一個自己最喜歡的地點。然後我開始了許多屬於我自己的單日小旅行，不僅用眼睛、而且用不同的感官，企圖去體驗他們所分享的地點，想像他們的回憶。看著這些文字敘述，被立體化在我的腦海，我試圖勾勒那種無以名狀的對家鄉的歸屬感。

 

小旅行之後，我決定替每個充滿回憶的地點，做一些事。我用矽立康將不同地點的肌理、質感或是人為活動的痕跡翻製下來，翻製的當下也像是「修補」了這些痕跡。這些我用矽立康做的模具就像把空氣固化，並且凝滯了它的當下。所有灰塵與碎屑，也因為模具阻擋了風，而停在原地。

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​我還畫了一張地圖，不是觀光景點的地圖而像是藏寶圖。

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An Open-Air Collection and A Map is a project I've done in 2017 in Rota, Spain. Rota is a coastal town located along Cádiz Bay in Southern Spain. I lived there for a month and made a project around the town.

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As an artist (aka unprofessional tourist), although I would love to visit those famous attractions, I’m also curious where do local people like to go. I asked people who live there to help me to explore the beautiful town by telling me their favorite places and reasons. Then I had many small one-day trips by my own, tried to experience this place not only by eyes but also by other senses, or by imaging the memories and experiences people had shared with me. I was touched when I learnt how much do they love their home town and what others to know their passion about the land. After the research, I made different works for each place.

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I cast the texture of different places (or you can say 'to fix the cracks of the town'.) These moulds I made solidified the air surrounded by and captured traces, dust, rocks or everything on it, showing the evidence that something/ someone was here. And I found the progress, this period of time that I have to wait until it’s dry, is quite interesting. These pieces of silicone aren't just casting, or being a mould by themselves, also they’ve become an indistinct mark to tag that certain place or object. Then I decided to leave/ hide my works at those places, like an open-air exhibition in the town, from the day I cast till the day some one want to take them off. Then I made a private tour map of Rota with information of useful informations and some shops I went often in town, those ‘favorite places’ that local people kindly recommended me, and locations of my works.

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The exhibition separated into two parts, one is in the gallery space with the guide map and photos as hints, the other part is on streets, around the whole town.

 

You can only see them by accident or by the map I drew.

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