INTERVIEW — Artisle艺术岛屿

张博文: 以“群岛的特性”组织多样的具身实践
Bowen Zhang: Organizing Various Embodied Practise
by the Nature of Archipelago

07/27/2024

张博文，艺术家、组织者，现工作生活于伦敦和舟山。2024 年毕业于 Slade MA Fine Art Media 专业。艺术家主导策展项目Small-Time Project 的 50%，伦敦中文艺术批判社群 West SecretSociety (WSS)发起者。作为广义上的艺术家，他现阶段的创作灵感来源于其家庭与渔业和体力劳动的紧密关系，作为岛民和长期旅行，居者的身份认同，以及对身体力行的执念和对当下触手可及的信息 (文本、图像、语境、事件等)的思考。
Bowen Zhang (B. Zhoushan) is an artist and organizer currently based in London and the Zhoushan Archipelago. He graduated from the Slade School of Fine Art with an MA in Fine Art Media in 2024. He is co-director of the artist-led curatorial project Small-Time Project and founder of the London-based Chinese art critique community West Secret Society (WSS). As a broadly defined artist, his current creative inspiration comes from his family's close ties to the fishing industry and physical labor, his identity as an islander and long-term traveler/resident, as well as his obsession with hands-on practice and reflections on readily available information (texts, images, contexts, events, etc.).

黄安澜：以“残忍的真实”讲述“不合逻辑的天真”
Yasmine Anlan Huang: Narrating "Illogical Innocence" through "Brutal Honesty"

06/29/2024

黄安澜，艺术家，写作者，1996 年生于广州，在都市间候鸟般迁徙。她游走于诗歌、哲学与地下文化之中，携一系列角色掠过巨大的悲悯，结合流动影像、装置、表演等各种媒介，将个体的生命经验注入宏大叙事或批判理论的缝隙中，以此转译时常共生的爱与伤害。

Yasmine Anlan Huang (b. 1996, Guangzhou, China) is an artist and writer migrating from cities to cities. Diving into the complexities of ingénue or shōjo archetype across diverse cultures, her works dedicate to uncover hidden power structures and decolonize storytelling. She orchestrates a polyphony that blends past and future, fiction and reality, sublime and absurdity, innocence and violence. With a fusion of personal cosmology, classic literature, historical archives, youth subcultures, and everyday objects, she crafts emotive worlds through moving images, texts, performances, and installations, all serving as surrogates for her hyper-vulnerability — she is also interested in how digital spaces swallow up and regurgitate life experiences.

伊莎贝尔·科纳罗: 在多媒介实验和跨文化交流中探索“真实”
Isabelle Cornaro: Exploring"Reality"in Multi-media Experiments and Cross-cultural Communication

06/15/2024

伊莎贝尔·科纳罗有着多重身份，既是当代艺术家，也从事着策展和教育工作。她有着深厚的艺术史学科的背景，作品多从艺术史中探寻符号和再现体系，以次挑战观众对于艺术品的感知。她的创作媒介非常多样化，从绘画、雕塑、装置到电影，她常常以多样和巧妙的方式将其并置，再进行改造和创作，将传统的表现方式和现代观念进行融合。在她的作品中，观众可以感受到跨文化的背景和她作品中蕴含的审慎、思辨且带有历史厚度的力量。

Isabelle Cornaro is a contemporary artist, curator, and educator. With a profound background in art history, explores different systems of reproduction and symbols in art history through her works, challenging the way viewers perceive artworks. Her creation media are highly diverse, encompassing painting, sculpture, installation, and film. She frequently juxtaposes and reworks these media in varied and ingenious ways, blending traditional forms of expression with modern concepts. In her works, viewers can sense the cross-cultural context and the careful, contemplative, and historically rich power.

张北辰：对抗完美投影
Beichen Zhang：Resisting Perfect Projection

05/29/2024

张北辰，1993 年出生于中国山东，于2019 年获得美国马里兰艺术学院摄影与电子媒介艺术硕士学位。他专注于使用摄影的叙事结构揭开隐藏的历史，作品常以摄影，散文电影，混合媒介以及机构研究等形式进行。近期，他使用多种媒介进行质疑与调查文化和技术遗产与亚洲殖民历史的关系，档案和地缘关系的变迁以及身份在后殖民主义语境中的流动性。他的作品是通过个人叙事，构架出一种隐喻和诗意的视觉体验，通过对人类学，历史和艺术跨学科的研究以自身的思想重新来审视和构建一种诗意的视觉语言。

Beichen Zhang (b.1993, Shandong, China) received his MFA from Maryland Institute College of Art in 2019 (United States). Focused on unveiling hidden histories through photography’s narrative structures, his artistic works often manifest in the form of photographs, essay films, mixed media installations and institutional research. Recently, he worked with a broad range of media to query and investigate the relationship of cultural heritages and Asian colonial history, archive and geopolitical vicissitude, and the identity’s fluidity within the post-colonialism context. His work is a set of a visual experience of a metaphorical method through personal narratives. Through the research of archaeology and anthropology, history, and other disciplines, he examines and builds a poetic visual language with its thoughts.

金悳汉：漆艺与色彩下的“流痕”
Kim Deok Han：“Traces of Time” in Lacquer Art and Color

04/18/2024

金悳汉 Kim Deok Han (生于 1981年) 属新一代艺术家，他以漆料这传统物料表现出“淡”的感受。艺术家使用多种颜色的漆料层层覆盖后，又重复剥离,只留下每层些微的痕迹。由于每个色层在施加另一层之前必须完全干透，因此需要多花时间和耐心，而这个耗时的过程通常需要六到十二个月。艺术家通过剥离并留下每一层的痕迹，以此捕捉它们积累的存在，并在作品的单一平面上揭示过去的每个时刻。使用古老的漆料也确保作品得以保存数千年。金以具冥想性的物料以及受传统韩服和音乐启发的色调，创造出引人注目和发人深省的作品。

Kim Deok Han (born 1981) is a new-generation artist who expresses the concept of "淡" (dan, meaning subtlety or simplicity) through the traditional material of lacquer. The artist applies multiple layers of lacquer in various colors, then repeatedly strips them away, leaving only subtle traces of each layer. Since each layer must be completely dry before the next one is applied, this process requires a significant amount of time and patience, typically taking six to twelve months to complete. By stripping away and leaving traces of each layer, the artist captures their accumulated existence, revealing every past moment on a single plane of the artwork. The use of ancient lacquer also ensures that the works can be preserved for thousands of years. Kim creates captivating and thought-provoking works by utilizing this meditative material and color tones inspired by traditional Korean hanbok and music.

黄佩姗：城市系统和情感景观的诗意互文
Peishan Huang: Poetic intertext of urban systems and
emotional landscapes

04/06/2024

黄佩姗的创作跨越多种媒介，包括图像、影像、雕塑和装置。她的作品深入探讨物理景观和情感景观之间的相互作用，探索物体和空间的情感共鸣，通过对色彩、材料和诗意情感的巧妙运用以及通过它们所创造的叙事来表达审美观点。在过去两年中，黄佩姗通过“人造自然“系列及其衍生子系列，探索了城市系统与自然和人之间的多重关系。她的作品还关注生活在当代城市景观中的少数民族群体。

Peishan’s practice involves a variety of mediums including photography, moving images, sculpture, and installation, and she specializes in using mixed mediums to speak about content. Her work delves into the interplay between physical and emotional landscapes, exploring the emotional resonance of objects and spaces, and expressing aesthetics through the colors, textures, and poetic emotions of the materials and the narrative given to her work through them. Over the past two years, she has been discussing the relationship among urban systems, nature, and human beings in her series of works “Artificial Nature” and its derived subseries. Her recent work focuses on the multiplicity of relationships between space, objects, and people, She is also concerned with the ethnic minority groups who live in contemporary city landscapes.

张紫璇：人类废墟/自然图景——影像语言之间的错位与对话
Leah Zhang: Human Ruins/Natural Landscapes ——
Displacement and Dialogue Between Imagery Languages

09/27/2023

张紫璇 (Leah Zhang) 毕业于罗德岛 MFA Photography 专业，艺术实践围绕着影像、摄影、声音和装置展开。Leah 关注媒体作为一种传播手段所带来的社会历史影响，以及生态与人类媒体之间的关联，她也将其作为一种技术手段一一测量、探索和记录自然。通过摄影、影像和声音，她的作品通过多感官、超现实和情感的转化，探索社会历史和自然之间的多维关系。

Leah Zhang graduated with an MFA in Photography from the Rhode Island School of Design. Her artistic practice revolves around imagery, photography, sound, and installation.

Leah focuses on the social and historical impacts of media as a form of communication, as well as the connections between ecology and human media. She also utilizes it as a technical method—to measure, explore, and document nature. Through photography, imagery, and sound, her work explores the multi-dimensional relationships between society, history, and nature, in a multi-sensory, surreal, and emotional approach.

姚聪：景观之下——游离于荒野的身体记忆与影像实验
Yao Cong: Beneath the Landscape –
The Bodily Memories and Imagery Experiments
Extravagaing in the Wilderness

04/15/2023

姚聪，1992年出生于西安。2014年于中国美术学院获学士学位，2017 年于英国皇家艺术学院获硕士学位。姚聪以影像、摄影、行为装置等媒介构建作品，通过描绘处于脆弱，孤独和异化中的人类形象回应类似的问题:在当代生活中，身体和风景如何被制造和解构;集体如何以情感和道德的形式塑造个人的精神样貌。姚聪的创作在人类世的语境下，指向个体欲望，焦虑和权力的不确定性。

Yao Cong was born in 1992, Xia’an, China. He received BA from China Academy of Art in 2014 and MA from the Royal College of Art in 2017. Working across diverse mediums, including moving image, photography, performance, and installation, Yao Cong explores the complexity and contradictions of contemporary life. His works depict human figures in vulnerable, isolated, and alienated states, prompting reflections on the manufacturing and deconstruction of the body and landscape in modern life. Additionally, he questions how collective influences shape individual mentality through emotions and morality. In the context of the Anthropocene, Yao Cong’s practice evolves into a fluid, hybrid structure, highlighting the uncertainty of desire, anxiety, and power.