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    情侣，2024，纽约，选自“凝”系列
    Couple, 2024, New York, from the Gazing Series

                

    In contemporary urban life, museums have become increasingly normalized as everyday public spaces. My series Gazing shifts the camera’s focus from artworks to the viewers themselves. Through a perspective resembling that of a voyeur, I capture fleeting, private moments in which individuals temporarily detach from their social roles while looking at art. The series explores how, when looking becomes an ordinary and ubiquitous act, viewers may enter a de-functionalized, non-performative state of mind within a public space, while unconsciously becoming objects of observation themselves. It also considers the relationships among the public, the private, and the act of looking.

    For this series, I photographed strangers viewing art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, focusing on their states of being and subtle facial expressions. In post-production, I adopted the visual qualities of a simulated vintage black-and-white 16:9 camera, attempting to evoke the atmosphere of a still from an old film while deliberately preserving the perspective of “sneaking a look.” The subjects include couples kissing in front of artworks, middle-aged visitors accompanying family members in wheelchairs, elderly individuals gazing at artworks alone for extended periods, stylish young people sketching in the galleries, and other viewers absorbed in their own worlds.

    While sequencing the photographs, I became attentive to the intriguing relationships between the directions of the subjects’ bodies and the compositions of the images. I began arranging the photographs as I would edit a photobook, and through this process, the images seemed to form new, unexpected narratives among strangers.




     在当代都市中，美术馆已成为一种被日常化的公共空间。我的作品“凝”系列将镜头从艺术品移向观者本身，通过一种接近“偷窥”的视角，捕捉个体在观看艺术品时短暂脱离社会角色的私人瞬间。此系列试图探索当凝视成为日常且普遍的行为时，观看者如何在公共空间中进入一种去功能化、非表演性的精神状态，且在无意识中同时成为被观看的对象；也探索了公共，私密及观看之间的关系等议题。

    我拍摄了纽约大都会博物馆数位看展陌生人的状态及微表情，并在后期使用模拟16:9复古黑白摄影机的方式，尝试制造静态电影剧照的氛围，并刻意保留“偷看”视角。拍摄对象有在艺术品前接吻的情侣、推着轮椅上家人看展的中年人、独自长时间注视作品的老年人、美丽时髦的写生年轻人，以及沉浸在自己世界中的其他个体观者。在排列照片时，我注意到人们的身体方向与构图间的有趣联系，我尝试像编辑摄影书一样排列后，图像似乎形成了新的陌生人叙事。










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