≡ 郑波 Zheng Bo
生命如此艰难，何必搞得这么简单?
LIFE IS HARD. WHY DO WE MAKE IT SO EASY?
2021
嘉道理农场暨植物园展览现场
Installation at Kadoorie Farm & Botanical Garden
由赛马会艺坛新势力资助
Supported by JOCKEY CLUB New Arts Power (JCNAP)
图片由赛马会艺坛新势力提供
Image courtesy of JCNAP
摄影 Photo by Cheung Chi Wai
正在展出 Current Exhibition
个展 Solo Exhibition
“生命如此艰难，何必搞得这么简单？”
"Life is hard. Why do we make it so easy?"
郑波 Zheng Bo
展期 Duration: 2021.1.30-3.14
地址 Address: 香港嘉道理农场暨植物园
葛先生花园及艺舍
Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden
Walter Kerr Gardens and Art House
(Scroll down for English version)
由香港艺术发展局(艺发局)主办、香港赛马会慈善信托基金捐助的赛马会艺坛新势力呈献今届第二个视艺展览：郑波《生命如此艰难，何必搞得这么简单?》(Life is hard. Why do we make it so easy?)。
郑波《生命如此艰难，何必搞得这么简单?》是 2018 年泰国喀比双年展同名作品的延续，灵感来自泰北农民 Jon Jandai 的 TED Talk 演讲“Life is easy. Why do we make it so hard?”，郑氏后来将句子反转作为展览题目。他有感人类经常为一己私利，令其他物种的生存变得艰难，因此透过展览，以提倡物种平等相处的理念，共同应对当前的气候和生态危机。
≡ 郑波 Zheng Bo
生命如此艰难，何必搞得这么简单?
LIFE IS HARD. WHY DO WE MAKE IT SO EASY?
2021
嘉道理农场暨植物园展览现场
Installation at Kadoorie Farm & Botanical Garden
由赛马会艺坛新势力资助
Supported by JOCKEY CLUB New Arts Power (JCNAP)
图片由赛马会艺坛新势力提供
Image courtesy of JCNAP
摄影 Photo by Cheung Chi Wai
是次展览选址嘉道理农场暨植物园，郑氏将联同该园兰花专家纪仕勋博士(Dr. Stephan Gale)，从本地兰花中挑选合适品种，栽培出富生命力的标语装置作品，于园内“葛先生花园”展出。另外，“艺舍”亦会展出郑氏近年的植物速写，以及有关是次创作的点滴及兰花保育的资料。
≡ 郑波 Zheng Bo
郑波近年的植物速写
Zheng Bo’s botanical sketch collection
嘉道理农场暨植物园展览现场
Installation at Kadoorie Farm & Botanical Garden
由赛马会艺坛新势力资助
Supported by JOCKEY CLUB New Arts Power (JCNAP)
图片由赛马会艺坛新势力提供
Image courtesy of JCNAP
摄影 Photo by Cheung Chi Wai
香港郊野公园的植物及物种之多，令出生于北京、现定居于香港大屿山的郑波十分惊讶。他表示:“香港地处南方，气候潮湿，万物充满生机。这次我邀请了大屿山的邻居制作竹架，而纪仕勋博士选取本地兰花制作文字装置，悬挂于花园内。观众漫步其中重组字句、细赏寓意。我希望透过这种轻松的形式，让更多人开始思考万物平等及背后的迫切性。”
嘉道理农场暨植物园代表表示:“兰花保育是本园植物保育工作其中一个重要范畴，我们利用无菌种子培育法繁殖本土兰花，并进行各种研究、文献、展览与教学，希望透过不同形式引起大家对兰花保育的关注。我们很高兴这次能与艺术家郑波合作，并邀请到本园树队、兰花组与艺术家团队合力在园内搭建一个有趣而富启发性的艺术装置，让观众置身绿林，启廸心灵并丰富知识，反思当下我们与大自然的关系。”
——文字来源于赛马会艺坛新势力
≡ 郑波 Zheng Bo
生命如此艰难，何必搞得这么简单?
LIFE IS HARD. WHY DO WE MAKE IT SO EASY?
2021
嘉道理农场暨植物园展览现场
Installation at Kadoorie Farm & Botanical Garden
由赛马会艺坛新势力资助
Supported by JOCKEY CLUB New Arts Power (JCNAP)
图片由赛马会艺坛新势力提供
Image courtesy of JCNAP
摄影 Photo by Cheung Chi Wai
Presented by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council and
funded by The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust, JOCKEY CLUB New Arts Power proudly presents Zheng Bo’s visual arts exhibition Life is hard. Why do we make it so
easy? at Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden (KFBG) from 30 January to 14 March 2021.
Zheng Bo’s exhibition, titled Life is hard. Why do we make it so easy?, is inspired by the
TED talk “Life is easy. Why do we make it so hard?” by Jon Jandai. The artist modifies Jon
Jandai’s statement and expresses his apprehension about how human beings are making our
lives easy at the expense of other species in nature. Through the exhibition, Zheng encourages
people to reflect and live in harmony with other species, for the common good and in coping
with the current climate and ecological crisis.
Zheng’s work was first presented at Thailand Biennale Krabi in 2018. The evolving exhibition in
Hong Kong takes place at Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden (KFBG). Here the artist works
with resident ecologist Dr. Stephan Gale, growing the botanical slogan installation from a selection of local orchid species, which will be exhibited at Walter Kerr Gardens of KFBG.
Zheng’s botanical sketch collection, the creative processes of the exhibition and the information
about orchid conservation will also be on display at the Art House of KFBG.
≡ 郑波 Zheng Bo
生命如此艰难，何必搞得这么简单?
LIFE IS HARD. WHY DO WE MAKE IT SO EASY?
2021
嘉道理农场暨植物园展览现场
Installation at Kadoorie Farm & Botanical Garden
由赛马会艺坛新势力资助
Supported by JOCKEY CLUB New Arts Power (JCNAP)
图片由赛马会艺坛新势力提供
Image courtesy of JCNAP
摄影 Photo by Cheung Chi Wai
Born in Beijing and currently residing on Lantau Island, Zheng Bo is impressed by the
abundance of varieties of plants and species in the country parks in Hong Kong. He says,
“Located in Southern China, Hong Kong is noted for its humid climate and lushness of the
vegetation. In creating these outdoor installations, I have invited my neighbours in Lantau
Island to build bamboo supporting frames on which I adorn with orchids specially selected by
Dr Stephan Gale from different locally grown species. The installation will be displayed in
mid-air, the audience will have to look up to reconstruct the whole slogan. I hope by discovering
this text, made of living plants, viewers will reflect on how lives are all created equal and how
urgent is the crisis we are facing now.”
Representative of Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden says, “Orchid conservation is an
important part of KFBG’s flora conservation work. In the hope of raising awareness for orchid
and environmental conservation, we propagate native orchids from germ-free seeds.
Meanwhie, we conduct different kinds of conservation research, publish academic literature
and review as well as organise a number of exhibitions and comprehensive education courses
on ecology and culture. We are excited to collaborate with artist Zheng Bo and his creative
team, together with our tree team, orchid section, education department, to build an entrancing
and inspiring art installation. Allowing the audience to immerse themselves in the forest, this
installation also invites visitors to audience will enrich their knowledge and understanding of the
environment, and ultimately, reflect on the relationship with nature.”
- Text from JOCKEY CLUB New Arts Power
艺术家简介 About the artist
郑波是⼀位致⼒于⼈和⼈之间以及不同物种间平等的艺术家。他从边缘⼈群和边缘植物的视⻆探查历史、想象未来，并试图学习及培育创建⼀个美好⼈类世的⽣态智慧。郑波曾与亚洲和欧洲的多家美术馆和艺术空间合作，最近的有里斯本美术馆（葡萄牙）、第58届威尼斯双年展（威尼斯）、格罗皮乌斯博物馆（柏林）、Parco Arte Vivente（都灵）、立方计划空间（台北）、Villa Vassilieff（巴黎）、卡斯雕塑基金会（古德伍德）、四方美术馆（南京）和香港艺术馆。2018年，他的作品入选“第十二届欧洲宣言展”，“全球都市国际双年展”，“第十一届台北双年展”，“第二届银川双年展”，“第一届泰国双年展”。2018年，他结束了位于香港的亚洲艺术文献库的驻留项目。2021年，他的作品将在“利物浦双年展”展出。
图片由艺术家和马凌画廊提供
Image courtesy of the artist
and Edouard Malingue Gallery
Zheng Bo is an artist committed to human and multispecies equality. He investigates the past and imagines the future from the perspectives of marginalized communities and marginalized plants. He is learning to cultivate ecological wisdom for a Good Anthropocene. Zheng Bo has worked with a number of museums and art spaces in Asia and Europe, most recently Kunsthalle Lissabon (Portugal), 58th Venice Biennale (Venice), Gropius Bau (Berlin), Parco Arte Vivente (Torino), TheCube Project Space (Taipei), Villa Vassilieff (Paris), Cass Sculpture Foundation (Goodwood), Sifang Art Museum (Nanjing), and Hong Kong Museum of Art. In 2018 his works have been included in Manifesta 12, Cosmopolis #1.5, the 11th Taipei Biennial, the 2nd Yinchuan Biennial, and the 1st Thailand Biennial. In 2018 he completed an artist residency at Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong. Upcoming exhibitions include participation in the Liverpool Biennial 2021.
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