“挂悬之案”展览的精神倾向是“挂”，即把互相吞噬的生命通过绳索挂起来展示，提示了危险和紧迫的生命历程的灾难。而这个灾难源自生物的欲望，特别是人的欲望，从而使事件变得充满了交织和变动，通过挂起的形式而得以提示，就像从一个混杂的事物中，用绳子穿起关键性的一串精华，将之示众，使问题变得极为鲜明。“悬”是对挂起状态的描述，也因为把这样沉重巨大的事物挂起以后，用晃动和悬置让人产生担忧和恐惧。既是悬的状态，也是悬的心态。除了展厅中的这一部分外，还牵挂出一个重大的社会行为艺术，也称“挂悬之案”。这是一个真实的悬案。艺术家本人十五年前在公园中与女友一起遭受三个歹徒的抢劫，中刀多处，女友（现为其妻）也同时受重伤。警方投入大量警力抓捕，经过审判，最后杀人抢劫的首犯伏法，从犯一人服重刑。但是其中负责望风的从犯一人在逃，从此匿迹，至今未被抓获！
　　“挂悬之案”在这里产生了三重悬置
　　第一，杀人抢劫犯在逃，悬而未获；
　　第二，杀人者伏法、服刑和逃匿，其父母和子女的精神状态和生存状态从此就被这种犯罪行为挂悬于困苦之中；
　　第三，产生这种恶性事件的社会问题---贫困、焦虑和冲突依旧挂悬在今天社会的现实之中。
　　展厅内外两个部分的作品把所有的事件、形象和行动都看成是一个互相有着潜在的若即若离关联的整体，从而揭示人类总是要寻找一条救赎的绳索，这一条“红线”只能紧紧的握在人类自己手里，这既是义务，又是责任。通过人的努力，人生在此升起，生命再次复活——这就是希望。当年的艺术家就曾处于奄奄一息之中，个人、家庭作为受害人的恐怖和伤害至今犹存，因此，这个展览的第二部分，就是启动一个特别的个案行动，要寻找并宽恕在逃的那个罪犯。诉诸社会讨论、社会介入，提升对于犯罪的宽恕问题的关心。同时，专门设立一个挂悬基金，由艺术家和策划方共同提供启动基金，寻求社会捐赠，托管在吴作人国际美术基金会之下，每年向犯罪人所在的村庄提供资助，协助这个贫穷的地方的孩子接受教育，并且不间断地用艺术审美教育的方式加强当地人道意识和人权观念。并在必要的情况下救助罪犯的父母和子女脱离贫困线，以德报怨。
　　“挂悬之案”涉及自然和人类的生死问题。“死”是所有的这一串活动的结局，是趋向于灭亡。这种灭亡不是自然的生灭，而是由于生命的贪婪而形成的对生命本身的摧残和作践的结果。但是，“生”就是把倾覆在即的求生的希望，交回到人的手上，让人类通过自我的拉拽拯救自身和其他生命，使自己的精神和生命的重生掌握在自己的挣扎奋斗之中。因此“挂悬之案”旨在使人道精神在现实物欲逼迫中完成一次超乎寻常的显现！

Preface
The spiritual disposition of the artwork - The Suspense – is ‘Suspending’. By showing lives biting each other and being connected by the cord, the suffering of a dangerous and pressing life journey is revealed. The suffering is induced by the desires of living beings, especially the desires of human being, causes the whole event full of interweavement and variables, which can be illuminated through the form of suspending; just like threading a string of essences by a rope out of a chaos and display it to the public, so the questions become distinct. Suspending is the description of the status of hanging, and also since such a massive and heavy item is hanging, the hang and the swing cause people to worry and fear. The suspending is not only a matter of state but also a matter of mind. Besides the exhibition in the hall, it pulls out a tremendous social performance art as well – also a suspense - a suspense in real life. 15 years ago, the artist and his girlfriend encountered a brutal robbery in the park, he suffered multiple knife wounds, and his girlfriend whom now is his wife also survived with severe injury too. The police invested full strength to catch these three robbers and after trial, the prime culprit was convicted to death penalty, and one of the accessories was sentenced heavy penalty. However, the other accessory whom was responsible of lookout while the crime fled and disappeared from then on, and still not arrested by now!
In The Suspense, there are three meanings of suspensions:
First, the attempted murderer is still on the run, his arrest is suspending,
Second, the culprits were executed, sentenced or hiding, the lives and minds of their families are suspended in pain by their crimes,
Third, the social issues of poverty, anxiety and conflicts, which are roots of this kind of vicious incidents, are still suspending in our society today, among us.
The two parts of the work located at the inside and outside of the exhibition hall consider all the incidents, figures and actions as a whole with vaguely potential interaction, therefore to reveal that all human beings always need to look for “a rope of redemption”, and this “key thread” can be only found in human beings’ own hand, it is our duty, and responsibility as well. Through the effort of human being, life is elevated and vita is revived – this is hope. At one time the artist’s life was at his last gasp, and as a victim of the crime, the terrifying and painful experience is still haunting him and his family; for this reason, the second section of this exhibition is to launch a special campaign, to find the forgive the fugitive the running culprit. Appealing to the conversation and involvement of our society, to increase concerns about the forgiveness of crime. At the same time, founding a Suspense Foundation and the artist and organizers will provide the initial funding and seek for public donations. The foundation will be trusteed to Wu Zuoren International Foundation for Art, it will subsidize the village where the culprits came from, help children in this poor village to receive education, and reinforce the sense of humanity and human rights of the locals by providing art and aesthetic lessons. And if necessary, helping the families of the culprits, lift them from poverty, returning good for evil.
The Suspense concerns the issue of life and death of nature and human being. Death is the end of these series of activities and it tends to doom. This doom is not a matter of natural life and death but a result of a self-destruction and self-humiliation to life induced by the greedy of life. However, “living” means to hand the hope of life back to one’s hand when it is about to overturn and, by pulling the string of the salvation of itself other livings, the human being gains control of its spirit and life again through struggle and fight. In this case, The Suspense is aiming to break the walls of realistic material desire to accomplish an extraordinary reveal of humanity!

Zhu, Qingsheng

作者：朱青生