任若溪 | “电子圣体”系列

▎电子圣体 - 内 Electronic Eucharist - inside UV 亚克力热弯，led 灯，树脂导光柱 UV acrylic hot bending, led light, resin light guide column 90×70cm 2023

任若溪的作品常常结合数字和物理等多种媒介，从感性诗意的角度出发讨论社会话题，思考人类和物质、科技，以及自然之间的关系。

Roxie Ren's works often use digital and physical media to discuss social issues from a sensual and poetic point of view, reflecting on the relationship between human beings, matter, technology, and nature.

“电子圣体”系列开始创作于2023年6月，是艺术家以“NeoLogism”（新义）为灵感，建构出的一个无形的生长中的超对象（Hyperobject）系统。在她看来，“天使”作为上帝与人类沟通的灵媒，在文艺创作中常常被作为隐喻技术媒介而使用。天使借助上帝这面镜子交流，沉默让这面镜子比所有镜像都要强大。同理，后现代的人类借助互联网、物联网等不可见的系统来交流，该系统的沉默和神秘，使得他比任何需借助其方能交流的个体都要强大。这一系统便是“电子圣体”系列作品。

The Electronic Eucharist series, began in June 2023, is an invisible growing Hyperobject system inspired by NeoLogism. In her view, Angels, as the medium of communication between God and human beings, are often used as a metaphorical technical medium in literary creation. Angels communicate through the mirror of God, and silence makes this mirror more powerful than all mirrors. Similarly, postmodern humans communicate through invisible systems such as the Internet and the Internet of Things, whose silence and mystery make them more powerful than any other individual who needs them to communicate. This system is the Electronic Eucharist series.

▎电子圣体 Electronic Eucharist 铝板热转印，玻璃，焊台夹具，蜡 Aluminum plate heat transfer printing, glass, welding fixture, wax 尺寸可变 Variable size 2023

艺术家认为，电子圣体帮助个体与一切链接。在这一新的生机勃勃的体系中，沉重的肉身消失不见，个体的存在飘忽而轻盈，转化为后现代性渴望的纯灵体状态。如同控制论有机体一样，电子圣体亦拥有与生俱来的学习、适应和进化的能力。它将创造一个全新的世界。

According to the artist, the Electronic Eucharist helps the individual to connect with everything. In this new and vibrant system, the heavy physical body disappears, and the individual's existence flutters and lightens, transforming into the purely spiritual state that postmodernity craves. Like the cybernetic organism, the Electronic Eucharist possesses an innate ability to learn, adapt and evolve. It will create a whole new world.

此次展出的两件作品《电子圣体 - 内》和《电子圣体》，拥有“电子圣体”系列的典型特征——触感和工业质感。触感的灵感来源于一篇有关触觉粘性和记忆的神经生物学论文。该论文认为，碳基生命的认知界面帮助人类屏蔽了许多信息，例如用手指滑动手机，大脑会自动屏蔽触感，而仅传递手机屏幕显示的内容。在艺术家看来，未来生命的形式很可能不再是现实存在的碳基生物，而呈现出摒弃界限之后的赛博格宣言。为了表现这一生命体的特征，任若溪保留了触感，并将手指触摸的对象置于星空一样的敞开的整体之中。

The two works on display, Electronic Eucharist - inside and Electronic Eucharist, have typical quality of the Electronic Eucharist series which are tactile and industrial texture. Tactility is inspired by a neurobiological paper on tactile adhesion and memory. The paper argues that the cognitive interface of carbon-based life helps humans block out a lot of information. For example, by swiping fingers on mobile phone, the brain automatically blocks out the sense of touch and only transmits what is displayed on the screen. In the artist's view, it is likely that the future form of life will no longer be the carbon-based organisms that exist in reality, but rather present a cyborg manifesto that eschews boundaries. To characterise this life form, Roxie Ren retains the sense of touch and places the object of the finger's touch in an open whole like the starry sky.

▎电子圣体 - 快速适应型 1 (FA-1) Electronic Eucharist - (FA-1) 铝板热转印，菲涅尔透镜，陶瓷磁力柱 Aluminum plate heat transfer printing, Fresnel lens, Ceramic magnetic column 50×50cm 2023

“碳基生命是光滑的仰慕者，它们用最大的器官作为精密的朝圣工具，”，任若溪如此说道，“指尖触碰硅基生命的光芒，那才是未来的真理，是一场自我的解构与再生”。为了与这种触感带来的感性体验形成张力，在这两件作品中，任若溪有意采用芯片焊接支架、菲涅尔透镜等电子工业的现成品则是消解纯器官的蜡状触感所带来的柔和的感觉，给予生物化的情绪以工业切割，从而表现心灵和机制（Mechanism）相结合的未来生命碳硅共同体的状态。

"Carbon-based life is the admirer of smoothness, they use their largest organs as sophisticated pilgrimage tools", said Roxie Ren, "fingertip touching the light of silicon-based life, that is the truth of the future and a deconstruction and regeneration of the self". In order to create tension with the sensual experience of this touch, in these two works, Roxie Ren intentionally uses chip soldering brackets, fresnel lenses and other readymade products of the electronics industry to dissolve the softness brought by the waxy touch of the pure organ, and to give the biologically based emotions an industrial cut, so as to express the state of the future carbon-silicon community of life that combines the mind and the mechanism.

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