金晶·artist Jinjing | 永恒的未来

永恒的未来

The Lasting Future

"永恒的爱，来自没有你的世界

With lasting love, from a world without you”

—Alan Weisman

展出现场，集美·阿尔勒国际摄影季，厦门

One exhibition site at Jimei × Arles International Photo Festival，Xiamen, 2018

《永恒的未来》这个项目从2018年开始创作至今，包含摄影，影像和装置等多种媒介的组合。这个作品的主要探索方向是从“非人工自然”和“城市景观”两条研究路径出发，尝试构造新的系统生成逻辑，通过当下的视觉碎片和语境去拼凑出未来世界存在方式的可能性片段。在创作过程中，我以“怀疑者”视角，抓住并暗示日常环境中细微的、稍纵即逝的直觉，引发观者对所处“世界”的真实样貌的思考和质疑。

This series is named "The Lasting Future", which was in progress from 2018, and includes a combination of various media, including photography, video, installation and text. The main exploration direction of this work is try to construct a new system generation logic from the two research paths of ‘non-artificial natural’ and ’urban spectacles’, and piece together possible preview of the future world's existence based on the visual fragments and contexts of the present. I adopts the perspective of a skeptic and regards everyday environments with a subtle, transient intuition, inspiring us to question the true nature of the world we live in.

从城市空间出发所摄取的图像是关于那些很常见但又常被我们忽视的事物。我将它们单独抓取出来，再修改原图像中的一些细节，然后将它们以不同的组合呈现出来，使这些图像的真正样貌与我们记忆中的日常经验产生距离感和不确定感。图像的获取和修改的原则依然是以我们熟悉的日常经验作为参照。观者在每个图像和其组合中所看到的内容并没有什么特别奇怪的地方，几近正确，但同时感到陌生。通过对日常景观的陌生化，以及对经验和记忆的重置，《永恒的未来》展现一幅人类缺席的城市图景，隐喻未来世界的可能性片段。

I adopts the perspective of a skeptic and regards everyday environments with a subtle, transient intuition, inspiring us to question the true faces of the world we live in.The images taken from the urban space are about things that are common but often ignored by us. I pulled them out separately, modified some details in the original image and then presented them in different combinations to create a sense of distance and uncertainty from our daily experience. The principles of image acquisition and modification are based on our daily experience as a reference.There is nothing particularly strange about what the viewer sees in each image and its combination, almost correct, but at the same time might feel strange. Through the defamiliarization of daily details and the resetting of experiences and memories, ‘ The Lasting Future ’ presents an urban scene in which humans are absent, a metaphor for possible preview fragments of the future world.

Digital photography from the art project of ‘The Lasting Future’,copyright belongs to artist Jin Jing

Urban Cave, 数码摄影Digital photography, 2018

Xiamen in 2007 , 数码拼贴摄影 Digital collage photography, 2018

《永恒的未来》的创作过程正如一个用不同的视觉模块“搭积木”的过程，通过它们的组合，由一个尺度流向另一个尺度、由具体流向抽象，层层递进地构织了一个看似普遍但又陌生的景观。用以组合《永恒的未来》系列的模块多为我们生存空间中常见的景观或实物。例如，生长在城市空间角落中的植物、城市中随处可见又常被忽略的“人造物”，例如天花板，排风口等等。

Most of the fragments used to combine the ‘ The Lasting Future ’ series are common sights or objects in our daily life. For example, the plants growing in the corners of urban space , the artificial objects that are common but often ignored by us, such as ceilings, exhaust vents, and so on. Therefore, the creation process of ‘ The Lasting Future ’ is like a process of building blocks with different visual modules. Through their combination, from one scale to another, from concrete to abstract, gradually constructing a seemingly common but unfamiliar urban landscape.

以下为部分《永恒的未来》系列中的视觉模块

Parts of selected visual fragments in the‘ The Lasting Future ’series

山川/ The Mountain Rivers , 数码拼贴摄影 Digital collage photography, 2018

午休时刻/Lunch Break , 摄影 Photography, 2018

安全出口/Emergency Exit, 摄影 Photography, 2018

爬山虎/Creepers , 摄影 Photography, 2018

中央空调/Central Air-conditioning , 摄影 Photography, 2018

更多视觉模块，详见以下展出现场介绍 More visual fragments will introduced in the following exhibited version

版本1 · 展出现场 The first exhibited version
中国欧洲艺术中心/Chinese European Art Centre, 2018
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The first exhibited version of The Lasting Future at CEAC

这是第一个展出版本。通过静态照片，影像和机械的组合，来呈现公共区域的异化的状态，这种异化状态在人作为主体的城市空间中是隐藏性的和不易察觉的：作品中所有的构建元素都是源自现实世界，而当观者置于这个被构建的“世界”之中时，会感受到它在细节上发生着微妙且不可信的变化，从而使这个“世界”在宏观上趋向陌生化。

This is the first exhibited version. Through the combination of photographs, videos and moving-sculpture, a status of alienation of the public area is presented. This status is inconspicuous and undetectable in the urban space dominated by human beings. All the visual segments constructed this work are from our real world. But when the viewers are placed in this constructed ‘world’, they feels the subtle and unbelievable changes have taken place in the details, which makes this ‘world’ defamiliarize macroscopically.

以下是展出现场内影像装置中播出的视觉片段。每次根据展出情况的不同，会截取不同的视频，以下是几个视频截图，内容上无明显叙事，大多是植物或人造物缓慢颤抖摆动的图景，呈现异化的端倪。Depending on the situation of the exhibition site, different videos will be intercepted to present. The following are a few screenshots of the videos. There are no obvious narratives in the content, and most of them are about plants or artificial objects with a strange sense of movement.

展出现场内影像装置中播出的视觉片段

Part of the video in the installation showed above

我想特别提到的是在这个作品中占很大比例的植物图像，例如直接铺满墙的绿植图像，还有影像中出现的植物的动态视频，都是短暂地生长在城市角落中的植物，它们并非属于人工规划的城市绿化范畴。

I’d like to specifically mention the plant images that account for a large proportion of this work, such as the green plant images directly covering the exhibition wall, and the dynamic video of the plant appearing in the image, which are all temporarily growing in the corner of urban space, not belonging the part of the artificially planned urban greening.

除了照片和视频，机械的运动雕塑也是组成《永恒的未来》这个系列的视觉模块之一。在展出时，它们可能作为影像的一部分出现在的视频里，也可能直接作为实体雕塑出现在展厅中不容易马上被发现的地方，例如墙角或屋顶。下图和视频所示就是一个被吊挂在屋顶的运动着的机械。它在伸缩之间会产生类似蝉的鸣叫声，如同一个介于有机和无机之间的生物。它的呈现暗示了某种新型生命的前兆，未来将与我们已知的事物分离。

In addition to photos and videos, the mechanical moving sculptures are also part of visual modules of ‘ The Lasting Future ’ series. During the exhibition, they might appear inside the video or appear as sculptures in the exhibition hall but at the place that are not easy to be spotted immediately, such as at corners or on roofs. The picture and video below show a moving sculpture hung on the roof. It produced a cicada-like cry when it stretched, liked an alienated creature between organic and inorganic. Its presentation implied a precursor to a new type of life：the future will be separated from what we already know.

综合材料电动装置，电机，伞骨，金属管等材料，最大臂展2.5m / Electric devices, Motors, Umbrella ribs, Metal tubes maximum arm span of 2.5m, 2018

"我们所看到的任何东西也都可以是其他样子的，我们可以描述的任何东西也都可以是其他样子的

Whatever we see could be otherwise.Whatever we describe could be otherwise."

—— Ludwig Wittgenstein

版本2 · 展出现场 The 2nd exhibited version
集美·阿尔勒国际摄影季 Jimei × Arles International Photo Festival，2018
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“满墙的绿植图像，单向玻璃的大厦镜面倒映着冷静齐整的城市。在那里，似乎有着未知目光的注视；而一旁，一段呈现自然的录像下方，堆叠着几张充满几何感的“人造物”（如通风口、空调、墙砖）局部的静帧图像。整个作品之间构建了一个与现实世界相似却又不同的互文“世界”，构建出一种对日常景观的陌生化。

A wall of green plants composes a vigor green image. The tidy and indifferent city is mirrored in the one-way glass of a high-rise building. There seems an unknown eye is gazing at it. Next to it are the still-frame images of several artifacts (like air-vent, air conditioning and wall tiles), piled under the ongoing video showing nature. This work construct an intertextual world that is similar but different from the real world, causing a kind of estrangement to the daily spectacle."

———轴艺术策展团队 / Axis Art Project（The curator team）

展示现场除了静帧图像的输出，还有一块办公楼吊顶板的实物混在其中。 “ 真实 ” 与 “ 再现 ” 之间互文。

In the exhibition venue, in addition to the output of the still-frame image, there is also a material object, the ceiling of an office building, vividly presenting the intertextuality between reality and reproduction.

版本3 · 展出现场 The 3rd exhibited version
滚动的雪球 12 / The Rolling Snowball 12，Djupivogur，Iceland，2019
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Exhibited on the Rolling Snowball 12 |Víkurland 6, Djúpivogur, Iceland | 2019

这次展览的版本中只呈现了三款视觉模块的组合：两张图片和一个电动装置。

The version of this exhibition only presented a combination of three fragments: two pictures and an electric device.

电动装置安装在一个盒子里，摆在地上。在运行的时候，会让盒子周围的磁场发生混乱，所以摆放在周围的指南针会出现错乱无规则的抖动。指涉在城市的丛林中产生的眩晕症，与上方墙上展示的“百叶帘”图像所制造的视觉眩晕相对应。

The electric device was installed in a box and placed on the ground. When it is in operation, the magnetic field around this box will be confused, so the compass placed around will appear disorderly. It refers to the vertigo caused in the urban jungle.

装置运转时的记录视频Recorded video when the device was running

综合材料电动装置，电机，磁铁，电路板等材料，尺寸可变，2019

Electric devices, Motors, Magnets, size variable, 2019

观众围观盒子周围的指南针 The audience watched the compass around the box

下图的主角依然是在现代城市的角落中疯狂生长但短命的植物。我对原始图像进行了调色处理，删减了体现环境的上下文，并构成了类似舞台或窗口的框架。相比起前两个版本中并没有改变颜色的植物，在这里，我尝试着用火红色作为图像的主色，让场景离现实经验更远一些：作为一个索引，指向那不可能或所有可能并存的未来。

The protagonist of the image below is still the short-lived plants that grow wildly in the corners of urban space. I color-graded the original image, deleted the context that reflects the specific environment, and formed a frame similar to the stage or window. Compared to the plants that did not change the color in the previous two versions, here, I tried to use fire red as the main color of this image to make the scene farther away from the real experience. As an index, which points to the impossible or all possible future.

火焰 The Flame ｜数码摄影Digital photography｜2.03 x1.35m｜2019

下图是一个百叶窗，被挡住的阳光穿过缝隙，在相机拍出图像上产生了两条彩虹光影。图像中线条和光晕会造成观者视觉上的幻影，在凝视的同时产生眩晕。

This image is of a shutter. The blocked sunlight passes through the gap to produce two rainbows of light and shadow on the image taken by the camera. The lines and halo in the image will cause the viewer's visual illusion, which will cause dizziness while staring.

彩虹 The Rainbow ｜数码摄影Digital photography｜2.03 x1.35m｜2019

通过它们的组合，我尝试制作一种多层次的经验感受，重新再现我们的世界，在其中创造出一种神秘的幻觉和深度：我们的对真实的感知是多层次的，我试图将一层经验叠加在另一层经验之上，多次的叠加使熟悉的经验开始趋向陌生.

Through their combination, I try to make a kind of multi-level experience to represent our world and create a kind of mysterious illusion and depth in it. Seen that our perception of reality is multi-level, I tried to superimpose one layer of experience on top of another. The multiple superpositions make the familiar experience begin to be unfamiliar.

“它们肯定是关于可见世界的描绘，和我们见过的任何东西都不尽相同。

They must be about the depiction of the visible world, but different from everything that we have seen.”

——David Hockney

版本4 · 展出现场 The 4th exhibited version
“共振”第十二届三影堂摄影奖展出现场 Resonance: The 12th Three Shadows Photography Award Exhibition
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北京三影堂摄影艺术中心 The Three Shadows Photography Art Centre，北京 Beijing，2020.05

厦门三影堂摄影艺术中心 The Three Shadows Photography Art Centre，厦门 Xiamen，2020.07

“共振”第十二届三影堂摄影奖展出现场 Resonance: The 12th Three Shadows Photography Award Exhibition

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