程乾宁 Cheng Qianning
《孤独的星》是一件优美而技术上令人印象深刻的物体,它悬于一池黑色玻璃的上方,黑镜则被一堆火山石般的石块环绕。卫星两翼形同太阳能板,但实际上在播放俯瞰下的古遗址观测录像。在这些荒凉景色所描绘的世界里,一切关于人性的焦虑消隐于尘埃与寂静。我们不禁好奇,这信息是仅用几分钟时间还是耗时千年收集来的,它们是否先被发送至外太空遥远的一隅,而后又被送回地球以便分析。或许到卫星归来之时,已无人去接收它,或者生活同科技的变化是如此彻底,以至于解读它变成了难事。程的卫星从外部俯瞰、审视其下的世界,它无休止地从其下那个地球的生命或过往生命的残余中接收与转换视觉信息。如今的商业监控素材往往是平凡和不连贯的,但对于飘浮于太空中黑暗隐蔽之处的“孤独的星”来说,它提供了无尽的可能,去发掘关于生命与死亡的神秘以及人之为人的线索。
Lonely Satellite, is a beautiful but technologically imposing object suspended above a pool of black glass surrounded by what looks like volcanic stones. The wing portions of the satellite resemble solar panels but play video reconnaissance of ancient ruins, as seen from far above. These forlorn landscapes depict a world where all of the anxieties of humanity have faded away into dust and silence. We wonder if this information has taken only minutes or thousands of years to collect,transport to a distant region of space,then be returned for analysis. Perhaps by the time of arrival no one is left to receive it or life and technology have changed so drastically that it is difficult to decipher its meaning. Looking from the outside into our world below Cheng’s satellite endlessly receives and transmits visual information from life or remnants of past life on earth below. Today’s commercial surveillance material is usually mundane and inconsequential, but for the Lonely Satellite floating in the dark recesses of space, it offers the endless possibility of finding clues to the mysteries of life and death and what it means to be human.
《孤独的星》是一件优美而技术上令人印象深刻的物体,它悬于一池黑色玻璃的上方,黑镜则被一堆火山石般的石块环绕。卫星两翼形同太阳能板,但实际上在播放俯瞰下的古遗址观测录像。在这些荒凉景色所描绘的世界里,一切关于人性的焦虑消隐于尘埃与寂静。我们不禁好奇,这信息是仅用几分钟时间还是耗时千年收集来的,它们是否先被发送至外太空遥远的一隅,而后又被送回地球以便分析。或许到卫星归来之时,已无人去接收它,或者生活同科技的变化是如此彻底,以至于解读它变成了难事。程的卫星从外部俯瞰、审视其下的世界,它无休止地从其下那个地球的生命或过往生命的残余中接收与转换视觉信息。如今的商业监控素材往往是平凡和不连贯的,但对于飘浮于太空中黑暗隐蔽之处的“孤独的星”来说,它提供了无尽的可能,去发掘关于生命与死亡的神秘以及人之为人的线索。
Lonely Satellite, is a beautiful but technologically imposing object suspended above a pool of black glass surrounded by what looks like volcanic stones. The wing portions of the satellite resemble solar panels but play video reconnaissance of ancient ruins, as seen from far above. These forlorn landscapes depict a world where all of the anxieties of humanity have faded away into dust and silence. We wonder if this information has taken only minutes or thousands of years to collect,transport to a distant region of space,then be returned for analysis. Perhaps by the time of arrival no one is left to receive it or life and technology have changed so drastically that it is difficult to decipher its meaning. Looking from the outside into our world below Cheng’s satellite endlessly receives and transmits visual information from life or remnants of past life on earth below. Today’s commercial surveillance material is usually mundane and inconsequential, but for the Lonely Satellite floating in the dark recesses of space, it offers the endless possibility of finding clues to the mysteries of life and death and what it means to be human.