POP Mart
敦化南路一段161巷16號1樓 (1F, No. 16, Lane 161, Sec. 1, Dun-Hua South Road)
Mon-Thu:13:30-21:30 Fri-Sun:14:00-22:00 02-2751 0 106
 
作   品:課程單元一與二 Lesson #1 and Lesson #2
媒   材:錄像 Video
作 品:當飛機墜落時,船正在擱淺 the aircraft was falling while the ship was grounded
媒   材:綜合媒材 Mixed media
藝術家:王馨儀Wang Shin-Yi
 

裝扮成如超市的潮流服飾店POPMART,希望把跟國內外新銳設計師一起合作的自創品牌商品,模擬為時令鮮蔬,讓購買者在試穿挑選之際,遵循著能強化身體外表營養價值的準則,來為物件歸類品味和等級。

依循這種轉注假借的敘事手法,王馨儀將她所關注的生活瑣事,以幾近荒謬滑稽的視覺語彙來描繪「出神的生活現實」。作品中,主角都穿著過大T恤試著完成一項任務。身體上的主動設限與道具材質選擇,失敗的劇情似乎是自然發生。若「生活」可以簡化成一種任務,那過程中的不適應與焦慮在這二支影片中娓娓道來。而現場帶著摺痕的大型紙飛機、紙船,座落在不合宜的場域中,暗喻在生命的歷練後,誠實面對小時候的夢想,還是依舊如此巨大有力度。這些皆轉達了創作者在經歷生命不同階段拉扯後的筋疲力盡與旗鼓重整的雙重矛盾。

The trend-setting clothing store, POPMART, takes on the disguise of a super market, and the intend is to treat the original brands that domestic and international up-coming designers co-created as fresh produces. While the consumers shop, they can see that the products are categorized according to their nutritional values.

With an approach that utilizes borrowed and derived characters, Wang Shin-Yi uses nearly absurd visual lexicons to depict dazed reality about mundane things that she has focused on in life. In the work, the protagonists are all wearing large t-shirts and attempting to complete a task. From the preconceived limitation of the body and the choice of the materials used for the props, the failing plots seem to take place naturally. If life could be simplified into a single task, the apprehension and anxiety felt in the process are narrated in these two videos. The large paper airplanes and boats with apparent folded marks are scattered in an inappropriate setting, and they are trying to show that after the phase of observation from ashore and upon the return from a long journey, the person is ready to honestly face the childhood dream, and still finds it to be full of great dynamics. These depictions show the artist experiencing life in different stages, and she is once again ready to go on after combating the exhaustion felt from the struggling fight.