马海蛟 Ma Haijiao

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马国权 |  Mr. Quan (2016-ongoing)

风景计划 |  Landscape project

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https://vimeo.com/mahaijiao

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如果把绿色删除,如果开始关心植物

2019-2020

双频影像,彩色,有声

11分33秒; 9分36秒

 

If We Delete Green, If We Start Caring About Plants

2019-2020

Two channel video, colour, sound

11 minutes 33 seconds; 9 minutes 36 seconds

       作品是以“绿色”和“植物”为双重母题展开的具有交织性的联想与叙事,影像的双屏分别拍摄于人造空间和丛林空间,具有一以贯之的互文关系。绿色是最远离“人”本身的一种颜色,因此在影视制作中用于抠像,而植物是自然造物,非人类所为,它除却作为是植物自身颜色的一种表意,更承载了诸多的社会性意涵,如具有环保意义的城市绿化带,作为集会标识的绿色布条,在体育竞技中经常被应用的绿色地面或台面,以及艺术史绘画中不尽的绿色隐喻与象征。艺术家在其个人思维中刻意模糊了关于“绿色”和“植物”的概念界限,从而在影像中呈现出一种关于“人工与自然;真实与伪装;表意与象征”的虚实描绘。

 

       人造绿植、影视绿幕、绿色交通信号灯、具有植物隐喻的艺术史图像、播放着绿色流动文字的LED 屏幕在影像叙事中穿插出场。 如艺术家所言,“这是一个绿色空间,抛开叙事,影像其本体是不同层次的绿色影调。与此同时,在影调中所铺陈的即是绿色作为一种抽象的符号在不同层面的象征意涵。”在层叠的绿色之间,作者演绎了一个绿色作为历史载体、作为文化象征、作为抽象符号和作为技术条件的图像剧场。

The work takes “green” and “plant” as dual themes to unfold interweaving imaginations and narratives. The two channels of the video were respectively shot in a studio and a tropical jungle, they have a consistent intertextual relationship in terms of concept and presentation. Green as a colour is far removed from humans’ skin colours, so it is used for cutting out images in film production. Plants are born of nature instead of humans. It is not only a signification of the colour of plants but also imbued with social significance, for instance, they are used in urban greenbelts to protect the environment, in green headbands used for protest, in green floors or countertops which are often seen in sports competitions, and in countless metaphors and symbols in paintings in art history. The artist deliberately blurs the boundaries between the ideas of “green” and “plant” in his thinking, thus presenting a false but true depiction of “artificial and natural”, “reality and camouflage” and “signification and symbol” in the video.

 

      The artificial greenery, green backdrops for special effects, green traffic lights, art historical images with botanical metaphors, and LED screens with rolling green texts appear alternately on the scenes, and are also interspersed in the video narrative. As the artist states, “This is a green space. Without depending on the narrative, the images themselves are left as green tones on different visual layers. At the same time, what is presented of the tone is the symbolic meaning of the color green as an abstract symbol at different levels.” Between various layers of green, Ma Haijiao has created a theatre of images in which green acts as a historical carrier, a cultural and abstract symbol, as well as a technological condition.

 

installation view ART021 Art Fair, Shanghai, 2020

 

installation view JIMEI x ARLES International Photo Festival, Xiamen, 2020