谈身体

Talk About Body

2013，影像，彩色，有声

3分45秒

作品由艺术家和艾可提供

2013, Video, colour, sound

3'45''

Image courtesy of the artist and AIKE 

《谈身体》这件作品是有关身份和性别的投射。作品中，艺术家所扮演的主角坐在床上正在被一群不明身份的人围观（也许是朋友，或是陌生人）。由于主角是所有人关注的中心，而围观者既是听众，也是判断和意见的来源，因此整个场景的构图形成一种模棱两可的紧张感。

Talk About Body is a reflection about identity and gender. The work shows the artist himself, performing as the main character who is sitting on the bed, surrounded by an audience of undefined people (might be friends, or might be strangers). The composition of the scene creates a very ambiguous tension, as the main character is at the center of the attention of all these people, who are listeners, but are also sources of judgment and opinions.  

艺术家正在背诵一篇非常客观的文章——他请一位人类学学者来分析他身体的特征，并为他制作人类学档案。然后艺术家大声朗读这篇非常理性和客观的自我描述。这提醒了我们一种相当亲密、诚挚的坦白或者直言不讳的自我揭露，充满了悲伤和自我介入。文本的分析性自我定义（人类学档案）与舞台场景和构图（非常显著的，戏剧的和情感的）之间的对比，使我们反思身份的概念——我们自己身份的概念和他人如何看待我们身份的概念。

The artist is reciting a very objective text: he asked an anthropologist to analyse the features of his body, and to draft and anthropological profile of himself. And then the artist reads out loud this very rational and objective description of himself, in a situation that reminds us of a very intimate and sincere confession, or an outspoken coming out, full of pathos and self-involvement. The contrast between the analytical self-definition of the text (the anthropological profile) and the staged scene and composition (a very emphatic, dramatic and emotional one) makes us reflect about the notion of identity, the notion of our own identity, and the notion of how our identity is perceived by others. 

艺术家简介

陶辉，1987年出生于重庆云阳，2010年毕业于四川美术学院油画系，获学士学位，现工作、生活于北京。他曾于2008年获得四川美术学院的 “当代艺术档案特殊奖”，2015年获 “三亚艺术季华宇青年奖” 评委会大奖。他两次入选第18届和第19届 “Sesc巴西录像艺术节”，并于2017年入围“HUGO BOSS亚洲新锐艺术家大奖” 和KINO DER KUNST电影节 “国际竞赛” 单元。

近期部分个展：

“节奏与知觉”，马凌画廊，香港，2019年

“南方戏剧史A幕”，Chi-Wen 画廊，台北，2018年

“陶辉”，The Breeder 画廊，雅典，2018年

近期部分群展：

“疆域——地缘的拓扑”，OCAT研究中心，北京，2018年

“你对我知之甚少”，韩国国立现代美术馆，首尔，2018年

“未来电影院”项目，巴黎蓬皮杜艺术中心，巴黎，2017年

Tao Hui (b.1987, Yunyang, Chongqing, China), graduated from Sichuan Fine Arts Institute with a BFA in Oil Painting in 2010 and currently lives and works in Beijing, China. He won The Special Award of Contemporary Art Archive from Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in 2008 and Art Sanya & Huayu Youth Award in Sanya in 2015. He was twice shortlisted for the 18th and 19th Contemporary Art Festival Sesc Videobrasil and was shortlisted for HUGO BOSS ASIA ART Award for Emerging Asian Artists and International Competition sector of the KINO DER KUNST festival in 2017. 

Selected Solo Exhibitions:

Rhythm and Senses, Edouard Malingue Gallery, Hong Kong, 2019

The History of Southern Drama, Scene A, Chi-Wen Gallery, Taipei, 2018

Tao Hui, The Breeder, Athens, 2018

Selected  Group Exhibitions:

Frontier: Reassessment of Post-Globalisational Politics, OCAT Institute, Beijing, 2018

How Little You Know About Me, The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, 2018

Prospectif Cinéma programme, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2017