【OCAT上海馆｜作品介绍】王拓《中毒》

中毒

Addicted

2017，单频影像，16 分 33 秒

作品由艺术家和空白空间提供

2017, Single channel video, 16’33”

Courtesy of the artist and WHITE SPACE BEIJING 

在影像《中毒》中 , 艺术家挑选并邀请 12 位广告演员 , 让他们以其在曾经各自广告片中的形象 , 模拟了一次 《名利场》杂志封面照式的群像拍摄。随着镜头的推移 , 这些人物逐个的面对镜头讲述简短又私密的独白。演员们摆着僵硬的造型 , 袒露有关身体、心理、 生活方式的焦虑或苦闷 , 而这些独白的内容则是隐去了具体商品信息的广告片台词。而观众也慢慢从他们的交流方式中意识到 , 他们的聚集其实是一个“戒酒劝助会”(Alcoholics Anonymous Group) 式的成瘾症候心理救助现场。在影像中 , 演员独白与荷兰黄金时代群像绘画交替出现 , 艺术家以群像美学为线索展现当下与历史中“焦虑”的关联 , 延续了自 2016 年来对“人造观念”的实在性这一命题的探讨。

In Addicted, 12 commercial actors and actresses are invited to participate in a group photoshoot mimicking the cover of the Vanity Fair magazine, while performing the roles they usually play in commercials proficiently and cooperatively. As the camera moves along, each of the characters presents a short yet intimate monologue to the camera. In rigid poses, they confess their anxieties and frustrations about their bodies, minds, and lifestyles—perfectly put-together patients with internal sufferings. The viewers also gradually realize that these people are attending a spiritually minded meeting for addiction recovery a? la Alcoholics Anonymous. In this work, the actors’ monologues are juxtaposed with group portraits of the Dutch Golden Age. The artist bridges past and present with the aesthetics of schuttersstuk and regentenstuk, continuing his exploration in the reality of “artificial concepts” since 2016.

王拓，1984 年出生于吉林长春，2007 年毕业于东北师范大学获生物学学士，2012 年毕业于清华大学美术学院获绘画系硕士，2014 年毕业于波士顿大学艺术学院获 MFA，现 主要生活、工作于北京。王拓曾是纽约皇后美术馆 2015 至 2017 年度驻馆艺术家，并于 2018 年获得第十届三影堂摄影奖。

王拓的创作涉及影像、行为、绘画等多种媒介，通过预设情境下对他人真实生存经验及文献行为化的介入，揭示当代人类境遇与精神遗产之间不稳定的关系。

近期个展：

“从未走出的神话”，空白空间，北京，2017 年 

“失忆事典”，泰康空间，北京，2016 年

近期群展：

“新冶金者”，尤莉娅·施托舍克收藏，杜塞尔多夫，2018 年

 “One Northeast”，Zarya 当代艺术中心，海参崴，2018 年

 “九”，皇后美术馆，纽约，2017 年

WANG Tuo (b. 1984, Changchun, China) now works and lives in Beijing. He has an MFA (2014) from Boston University, an MA in painting (2012) from Tsinghua University, China and a BS in Biology (2007) from Northeast Normal University, China. Wang Tuo was an artist in Residence at the Queens Museum, New York from 2015 to 2017. He is the winner of the Three Shadows Photography Award 2018.

Wang employs various mediums and a process that combined interview, reality show and the theatre of absurd to construct a maze of melodrama. Through his performative manipulation on individuals’ lived experiences and intervention in intellectual legacies such as literature, film, theatre and art history, Wang’s practice attempts to examine the unreliable relationship between the contemporary human status, myth and cultural archive.

Recent Solo Exhibitions:

Myths We Don’t Outgrow, White Space Beijing, 2017

A Little Violence of Organized Forgetting, Taikang Space, Beijing, 2016

Recent Group Exhibitions:

New Metallurgists, Julia Stoschek Collection, Dusseldorf, 2018

One Northeast, Zarya Center for Contemporary Art, Vladivostok, 2018 

Nine, Queens Museum, New York, 2017