《草莽无惧-尘埃无定》

 

 

     2017年4月，深圳本地艺术家应深圳坪山区的邀请 ，来对坪山区金龟村一个老工业村庄进行一次艺术活动，以当地本有的资源与原著民文化来对这个早期的工业移民村庄进行一次活化活动，名为金地艺术计划。

     我有幸被这里的策展人邀请进入这个项目，进行为期20天的艺术驻留。被邀请的艺术家大部分来自深圳，虽然各自的方向都不一样，但都是对深圳的文化非常了解的人群，只有我，是每年都会来深圳参加公共雕塑展的外地艺术家。

在来的前几天，策展人带着艺术家对本地的已经废弃的草帽厂与泡沫厂进行了实地考察，艺术家被要求利用当地的材料与人文元素来进行创作。

     我在被废弃了将近六年的草帽厂里，发现了铺陈一地的草帽成口以及编织材料。我看到这些被废弃的材料感到一种既兴奋，又感伤的情绪。曾经的手工业产品的繁荣已逝于这厚积的灰尘里，由现代流水线代替的手工业，在这个快速发展的中国新兴城市里，散发着霉黄的气味。

但是，城市的变迁与中国经济的高速发展，这样的工业郊区更新迭代的速度也越来越快，艺术进入到这些消费绉皱区，成为了一种活化剂，也激生了艺术以有主题有功能的方式发展起来。

因此我在这里用废弃的草帽，作为我的创作材料 ，我把草帽分解成为一条一条的单位元素，并将它们以草本身的柔韧与旺盛，以自然生长的一种状态，呈现出来 。一条条草条，互为交织，互为攀附，互为蔓延。草条仍保留着人工编织的手工痕迹，在墙壁上生长出来，攀爬向上，向下，向左，向右，如有生命一般，野蛮生长。

     此间，我还引用了一首萨特《草叶集》里的诗句“哪里有土，哪里有水，哪里就长着草。” 来应对我想要表达的自由与生长的不可逆性，无论是人，还是城市，都是在自然的规律下无惧生长。

 

"The grass is no fear - the dust is not fixed"

 

In April 2017, a local artist from Shenzhen invited an industrial event to an old industrial village in Jingui Village, Pingshan District at the invitation of Shenzhen Pingshan District. The local industrial immigrant village was once visited with local resources and indigenous culture. The activation activity is called the Golden Land Art Project.

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I was fortunate enough to be invited by the curators here to enter the project for a 20-day art residency. Most of the invited artists are from Shenzhen. Although their respective directions are different, they are all people who know the culture of Shenzhen. Only me is a foreign artist who comes to Shenzhen to participate in the public sculpture exhibition every year.

A few days before the show, the curator took the artist to a field trip to the local abandoned straw hat factory and the foam factory. The artist was asked to use local materials and human elements to create.

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In the straw hat factory that was abandoned for nearly six years, I found a straw hat and a woven material. I saw these abandoned materials feeling a feeling of excitement and sentimentality. The prosperity of the former handicraft products has passed away in this thick dust, and the handicraft industry replaced by the modern assembly line has a mildew smell in this fast-growing emerging Chinese city. However, with the changes in the city and the rapid development of China's economy, the speed of this industrial suburbs is changing faster and faster. Art has entered into these consumption wrinkles, becoming an activator and also inspiring art with themes. A functional way to develop.

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Therefore, I used the abandoned straw hat here as my creative material. I broke the straw hat into a single unit element and presented them in a state of natural growth with the flexibility and exuberance of the grass itself. A strip of grass is intertwined with each other, climbing each other and spreading each other. The grass strip still retains the hand-woven traces of artificial weaving, grows on the wall, climbs up, down, left, and right. If there is life, it grows wildly.

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Here, I also quoted a verse in Sartre's "Leaves of Grass", “This is the grass that grows wherever the land is, and the water is ." To deal with the irreversibility of the freedom and growth I want to express, whether it is people or cities, are growing without fear under the rules of nature.