在隋丞2005-2006年的系列装置作品中，延续了之前在浮水者系列中漂浮水面的人形，这个个人化的符号转换媒介成为无处不在的历史见证者。这些人形没有眼目，没有嘴巴，没有表情，他们在沉默的空白之中呼吸存在，他们或置身于广袤的田野，或置身于正在逝去的和已经逝去古老城镇，他们在兴起的厂房大地上，他们在光辉的偶像阴影之下，他们在帝都万重宫城墙内，他们在墙下，他们作为艺术家鲜明的形象符号已经嵌入中国社会瞬息万变的历史背景，见证着古老余晖的消逝与现代文明兴起的矛盾与交错，听见舞台上频转的口号和哨音，也听见北方大地被开发的机器的轰鸣。然而，重要的是，他们是谁?这些符号代表了怎样的社会人群?他们就是我们。他们和我们一样，见证了世界的变迁，像浮水者一样亲手割断与故乡土地的脐带，我们是浮水者，在变迁之海中奋力沉浮与挣扎，却无从呐喊，我们是匆忙行动中的人形，快速选择快速遗忘，我们面目模糊，害怕拥有和大众不一样的表情，在场却选择沉默，作为集体主义情怀感召的一代，我们都在隋丞的作品中现身，我们无处不在，我们生于60年代。

　　隋丞的人形符号隐喻了历史巨变中的一代人。

　　车建全

　　广州美术学院教授

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　　Preface on Sui Cheng’s Works

　　In Sui Cheng’s installation series from 2005 to2006, the floating figures in his Swimmer series appeared again. This personalized media of symbol transformation has become a ubiquitous history witness. These figures have no eyes, no mouths or emotional expression. They just exist silently anywhere in the world: on far-flung fields, in disappearing or disappeared old towns, in developing factories, under the brilliant icons, within the walls of the old imperial capitals or against the walls. They, the distinct image symbols of the artist, have been set into the historical background in today’s constantly changing China, witnessing the contradiction and interlace of the ancient brilliance vanishing and the modern civilization rising. They have heard the frequently converted slogans and whistles on the stage and the roar of the machinery cultivating the northern land. However, the most important thing is, who are they? Who they are representing? They are us. They are just like us, who have seen the changes of the world, and have cut off the umbilical cord connecting us and our hometown. We are the swimmers floating and struggling in the sea of the changing world, incapable of crying out. We are the figures acting hastily and choosing to forget the past rapidly. We have vague features because we are afraid we have different expression from others. As a generation with collective feelings, we are all in Sui works. We are everywhere. We were born in 1960s.

　　Sui Cheng’s figure symbols have become metaphors of a generation experiencing the historic great change.

作者：车建全