白夜 Bai Ye
白夜的照片是他用手机摄像头和一只手电筒在一些被遗弃的、只有无名之辈居住其中的建筑里拍摄的。这些风景陌生但令人难忘,它们怀有超越与飞翔的希望,却仍深陷于黑暗压抑的现实之中。他的照片焦点是一束燃烧的白色瞳孔般的光芒,它照亮一切,而不似人眼或晦暗的星那样,靠消耗光明来看见。白夜的图像是神秘的,但又偶尔透露些许线索,供人把玩其中的含义:一个烟头、一块石头、一张带刺的铁丝网、月亮、云朵……这些碎片的痕迹又是易逝的。看来被月光点亮的夜空其实真的只是晦暗不明的具体的墙。表面上监牢的出口实则只是幻象。但在这里,即便幻象也是受欢迎的,它点燃了获得自由以及更美好的未来的希望。
《不可抵达之光》还将展出白夜的视频作品。这些作品是他对于身边怪异世界的观察,表现为抽象化的日常行为、地点与声音,既情绪化又具有挑动性,这些影像是取自真实生活的一些迷人的、极其微小的(类似)动画的片段。
Bai Ye’s photos are made with his mobile phone and a flashlight in abandoned buildings often inhabited by anonymous figures. They are alien and haunting landscapes imbued with the hope of transcendence and flight but still mired in a dark oppressive reality. The central focal point in his photos is a burning white pupil of light from which all else is illuminated, unlike that of a human eye or dark star that sees by consuming light. Bai Ye’s imagery is enigmatic but occasionally a clue is left behind to give you a foothold of meaning; a cigarette butt, a stone, a strand of barbed wire, moon, clouds... but this trail of crumbs is short lived. What seem to be moonlit nighttime skies are really just opaque concrete walls. What appears to be a way out of one’s imprisonment is just an illusion. But in this place even illusions are welcomed and provide a ray of hope for the freedom of a brighter tomorrow.
Also included in Unapproachable Light are Bai Ye’s video observations of the strange world around him in short abstracted daily actions, places, and sounds; emotional, provocative, and haunting microscopic animations from life.
白夜的照片是他用手机摄像头和一只手电筒在一些被遗弃的、只有无名之辈居住其中的建筑里拍摄的。这些风景陌生但令人难忘,它们怀有超越与飞翔的希望,却仍深陷于黑暗压抑的现实之中。他的照片焦点是一束燃烧的白色瞳孔般的光芒,它照亮一切,而不似人眼或晦暗的星那样,靠消耗光明来看见。白夜的图像是神秘的,但又偶尔透露些许线索,供人把玩其中的含义:一个烟头、一块石头、一张带刺的铁丝网、月亮、云朵……这些碎片的痕迹又是易逝的。看来被月光点亮的夜空其实真的只是晦暗不明的具体的墙。表面上监牢的出口实则只是幻象。但在这里,即便幻象也是受欢迎的,它点燃了获得自由以及更美好的未来的希望。
《不可抵达之光》还将展出白夜的视频作品。这些作品是他对于身边怪异世界的观察,表现为抽象化的日常行为、地点与声音,既情绪化又具有挑动性,这些影像是取自真实生活的一些迷人的、极其微小的(类似)动画的片段。
Bai Ye’s photos are made with his mobile phone and a flashlight in abandoned buildings often inhabited by anonymous figures. They are alien and haunting landscapes imbued with the hope of transcendence and flight but still mired in a dark oppressive reality. The central focal point in his photos is a burning white pupil of light from which all else is illuminated, unlike that of a human eye or dark star that sees by consuming light. Bai Ye’s imagery is enigmatic but occasionally a clue is left behind to give you a foothold of meaning; a cigarette butt, a stone, a strand of barbed wire, moon, clouds... but this trail of crumbs is short lived. What seem to be moonlit nighttime skies are really just opaque concrete walls. What appears to be a way out of one’s imprisonment is just an illusion. But in this place even illusions are welcomed and provide a ray of hope for the freedom of a brighter tomorrow.
Also included in Unapproachable Light are Bai Ye’s video observations of the strange world around him in short abstracted daily actions, places, and sounds; emotional, provocative, and haunting microscopic animations from life.