

策展人:牛恒立
Curator Niu Hengli
学术主持:马应海
Academic Chair Ma Yinghai
展览策划:观看艺术画廊
Exhibition Planning VIEW ART GALLERY
展览时间:2021.9.27~10.1
The Exhibition Period 2021.9.27~10.1
展览地点:大理古城洪武路188号大理国际影会主展区南区1-2
Venue: 1-2, South Area, Main Exhibition Area Dali International Photography Exhibition , 188 Hongwu Road, Dali Ancient City
周强
生
Surviving
12岁辍学后,我无所事事游手好闲,江边钓鱼混日。一天江面上飘来一片翻着白肚的鱼 儿,有些死了,有些奄奄一息苟延残喘。在好奇心的驱使下我随岸逆流而上,渡口船夫告 诉我,“上午有人放生”。
生死与私欲,在当时并不是我关心的,我仅是好奇而已。2017年我在一座寺庙里看到放 生池里的乌龟在假山下晒太阳,假山上的公鸽子在寻求交配。时隔十三年,这两个并不相 干的场景在我大脑里不谋而合。我按下快门拍下了眼前的画面,从此开始有意识的用相机 探索生存与欲望之间的关联:它们之间到底有怎样的关系,又是如何影响我们的行为和思考?
欲望是由一个个肉体、介质在空间里交织而成,看似波澜不惊却潜伏在现实生活中,构 成了我们赖以生存的公共场域,成为具象的生活内容或世俗状态。我游走于城市、乡村、山川、河流之间,用相机还原观看。这些影像所记录的都是它们在 这片土地上的即时反应。
It was 2004, and I was fishing along the Yangtze River. As a 12 year-old boy who is out of school, I did not have much to do but lingering around town. One day I went fishing and saw a stream of fishes floating on the Yangtze River with their bottoms up. Most were dead with a few of them catching their last breaths of life. It was quite an unsettling scene. A fisherman told me that these fishes were bought and set free by believers upstream. Thirteen years later in 2017, I saw a free life pond in a temple. There are turtles in the pond enjoying the sun, and pigeons resting by. At that moment, these two encounters collapsed and I came to realization about what I witnessed as a 12 year-old boy. I photographed the free life pond, then my jour- ney of seeking connections between life and desire begins.
Fleshes and matters tangle and desire is the end product. It is weaved into the very world we live in, yet it remains hidden and abstract. It reveals itself sometimes when it collides with the mortal world. However, such events often times appear to be mundane and non-intrusive on the surface. I am deeply drawn by these scenes of life.
I linger around cities, towns, rivers and mountains. I am a witness of my own perspective, and my photographs are documentations of their own spantenous reflections on this land they document.

放生池 ©周强
Free Life Pond ,2017

河道里的死牛 ©周强
Dead cow in the watercourse ,2019

猴 ©周强
Monkey ,2017

僧 ©周强
Monk ,2017

建筑石料 ©周强
Construction Gravels ,2003

渠 ©周强
Channel ,2003

马 ©周强
Horse,2019

冬泳的残障者 ©周强
A handicapped winter swimmer,2019

关于艺术家
周强 Zhou Qiang
周强1992年生于四川自贡,现居四川成都。获2019第七届侯登科纪实摄影 奖、2017露西摄影奖。2020第十二届三影堂摄影奖、2018、2019马格南基金 提名。作品曾在巴黎、纽约、日本、柏林、北京、上海、成都等地展出,并被收藏于机构和个人。
Zhou Qiang was born in 1992 in Sichuan China. Zhou started his photographic practice in 2010, and has been doing documentary works in China ever since. As an emerging artist, Zhou’s works were exhibited in China and abroad in- cluding cities such as Paris, New York, Japan and Berlin.
Awards and Nominations
2020 Three Shadows Photography Award, Finalist
2019 Hou Dengke Documentary Photography Award, Receipient 2019 Magnum Foundation Nomination
2018 Magnum Foundation Nomination
2017 Lucy Photography Award (IPA), Gold Award


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