"只有爱过动物，我们灵魂的一部分才能得以苏醒。"

《宠物总动员》展览现场，2024 ? Fotografiska 影像艺术中心

《宠物总动员》The Pet Show

最温情的当代宠物影像艺术展

The most heartwarming photography-focused exhibition about pets

在本月开幕的宠物主题影像艺术展《宠物总动员》中，24 位艺术家通过他们独特的视角，细腻地勾勒出宠物与我们之间的情感纽带。

展览现场，六个主题区域、超过 100 件作品，让观众在近距离感受艺术作品的同时，重新审视宠物在我们生活中的重要地位。宠物作为很多人生活中重要且不可缺少的一部分，以独特的方式陪伴着我们度过许多重要时刻。我们打造了一个充满趣味、爱与温馨的影像艺术世界，以致敬它们给予我们的深情陪伴。

本期我们将继续为大家介绍此次参展的艺术家及其创作理念。

In December, Fotografiska Shanghai presents the pet-themed photography-focused exhibition "The Pet Show" - featuring works by 24 artists who use their unique perspectives to portray pets in different ways, delicately outlined the emotional bond between pets and human.

Through over 100 pieces of works in 6 different themed sections, the exhibition will allow the audience to re-examine the important role of pets in our lives while experiencing the artworks up close. Pets, as an indispensable part of many people's lives, accompany us through many important moments in unique ways. We invite you to step into an art world full of joy and love, which is a heartfelt tribute to those affectionate faithful companions in life.

Following last introduction of different artists whose works have been exhibited in "The Pet Show",  we will continue to zoom-in at other artists and their thinking behind the artwork.

温妮·奥

Winnie Au

“为了反映宠物在现代家庭中的重要地位，我用拍摄人像的方式来捕捉它们。同时，通过提升它们的肖像，我在表达对动物给予人类同伴的爱和忠诚的敬意。在我的《耻辱圈》系列中，我将宠物狗在术后所佩戴的羞辱性项圈转化为美丽和庄严的象征?使项圈和其中的狗成为艺术作品。”

温妮·奥的艺术摄影表现了宠物在我们生活中崇高的角色。温妮·奥目前居住在纽约布鲁克林，和她的巴吉度猎犬克莱芒蒂娜一起生活。

《宠物总动员》展览现场，2024 ? Fotografiska 影像艺术中心

“To reflect the importance accorded pets in the contemporary family, I portray them in the same way that I capture humans. At the same time, by elevating their portraits, I am honoring the love and devotion animals give to their human companions. Through my Cone of Shame series, I transform the pet dog’s post-surgery humiliation into something beautiful and majestic - making the collars and the dogs within them works of art.”

Winnie Au’s fine art photography portrays the exalted role pets play in our lives. Winnie currently lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her basset hound Clementine.

卡里·比约恩

Kári Bj?rn

卡里·比约恩是一位冰岛摄影师，目前居住在美国。比约恩受到他天真童年时对“伟大的美国！”概念的启发。同时，他对美国最明显的缺陷和社会话题也很感兴趣。

《狗狗》系列围绕纽约市及其周边的动物时尚秀和锦标赛创作，纽约宠物时尚秀的盛大决赛每年二月在宾夕法尼亚酒店的顶层宴会厅举行。这场秀本身将纽约时装周的混乱与魅力，与威斯敏斯特犬舍俱乐部犬展的优美与高雅混合在一起，两者同时在二月举行。

《宠物总动员》展览现场，2024 ? Fotografiska 影像艺术中心

Kári Bj?rn is an Icelandic photographer, currently based in the United States. Bj?rn is inspired by his naive childhood conception of “America the great!” In parallel, he is intrigued by its most blatant flaws and societal topics.

Pooches follows a circuit of animal fashion shows and tournaments in and around New York City, with the grand finale, The New York Pet Fashion Show, held annually at Hotel Pennsylvania’s penthouse ballroom. The show itself brings together the chaos and glamour of New York’s fashion Week mixed with the grace and elegance of the prestigious Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, which occur simultaneously in February.

王翰林

Wang Hanlin

面对世界复杂的新变化，宠物作为人类共同的朋友，很多因素改变了它们的生存境况，同时也折射出人类社会中的历史沉积问题。这组作品试图通过观察宠物和其相关产业的发展作为一个切入点，打开新时代人与动物复杂且共生的关系。

自从人类将狼豢养成狗，人类社会结构中逐渐多出一个新的角色：宠物。动物被驯化作为人类的生产工具或食物，并在漫长的时间里逐渐成为人类的附属品。而现代化的都市生活将人与宠物从这种传统的饲养关系中抽离出来，被驯化的宠物的功用性变得越来越弱，现代人与宠物的关系也在发生新的变化。马克思曾强调研究事物关系应从其本质着手。通过“宠物”作为切入点，可以更好地参透人类的社会结构。宠物已然成为一种不可忽视的社会结构而存在，宠物行为和人类行为在这其中互相影响、互相博弈。通过表现当下人与“宠物”的亲密关系，由此延伸出现代家庭关系和现代人的消费态度，并最终通过“宠物”来映照我们自身。

In the face of the complex new changes in the world, pets, as common friends of humans, have seen alterations in their living conditions due to various factors. This phenomenon also reflects the accumulated historical issues within human society. This series of works attempts to explore the intricate and symbiotic relationship between humans and animals in the new era, through observation of pets and the development of its related industries as a starting point.

Since man domesticated wolves into dogs, a new role has gradually emerged in human social structure: pets. Animals have been domesticated as human production tools or source of food, and gradually became human appendages inthe process of history. Modern day urban life differenciates people and pets from the traditional relationship, and the functionality of domesticated pets is becoming ever more blurred, and the relationship between people and pets is also undergoing new changes. Marx once stressed that the study of the relationship between things should start from its essence, through "pets" as a starting point, we can better understand the social structure of human beings. Pets have become a social structure that cannot be ignored. Pet behavior and human behavior interact and influence each other. Through the expression of the intimate relationship between people and "pets", this exhibition intentds to portray modern day family structure and consumption patterns, and ultimately converge a reflection of ourselves through our “pets”.

安托万·施内克

Antoine Schneck

早在2009年，巴黎狩猎与自然博物馆馆长就委托施内克为60只狗拍摄了一系列照片，这些狗的主人都是法国名人。博物馆里有一个以这些严肃的狗的照片为特色的肖像画廊，模仿了欧洲城堡里有时能找到的著名祖先的肖像。这次展览吸引了艺术评论家和公众，取得了巨大的成功。在拍摄过程中，狗狗必须戴上黑色的围巾，这可能有助于它们在镜头前保持神圣的姿态。施内克有和宠物耳语的天赋，在拍摄中系列中的所有狗都表现得像专业模特，无论它们是真正贵族名流的狗，还是银行家、时尚设计师、或是法国总统的狗。

《宠物总动员》展览现场，2024 ? Fotografiska 影像艺术中心

Back in 2009, the Director of Paris’s Museum of Hunting and Nature commissioned Schneck to produce a series of photographs of 60 dogs whose owners were famous French people. A gallery of portraits featuring these stern dog photographs was created in the museum, in an anthropomorphic parody of the portraits of famous ancestries that can sometimes be found in European castles. This exhibition mesmerized art critics and the public and was hugely successful. For shooting sessions, dogs had to don black scarves, an accessory which perhaps facilitated their holding hieratic stance in front of the camera. Responding to Schneck’s talents at whispering to their ears, all dogs in the series behaved like professional models, whether owned by real noble men, fashion icons or French pre?sident.

芥川浩典

Hironori Akutaga

芥川浩典拍摄了蹿红网络名为《乌龙》的兔子的系列作品。乌龙的照片出现于第一波照片博客浪潮。世纪之交，数字技术的发展得以让互联网用户能够轻易的向公众展示私人图片/图片集。在这波浪潮中，专业摄影师芥川浩典成为了知名照片博主之一。浩典最常拍摄的对象就是乌龙（他的宠物兔），拍出摄影棚的照片风格。

“我一生中大部分时间都和兔子生活在一起。从1994年到2003年，我为我的宠物兔子乌龙创建了一个主页，虽然并非我的本意，它成为了全世界的 热门话题，甚至被用作网络梗。我的作品曾在《纽约时报》上刊登，并在日本举办过几次摄影展。”

《宠物总动员》展览现场，2024 ? Fotografiska 影像艺术中心

Hironori Akutagawa has photographed a rabbit series called Oolong that has gone viral on the Internet. Oolong's photos appeared in the first wave of photo blogs. At the turn of the century, the development of digital technology made it easy for Internet users to display private images/photo collections to the public. In this wave, professional photographer Hironori Akutagawa has become one of the well-known photo bloggers. Hironori's most frequent subject is Oolong (his pet rabbit) for photo gallery style setting shots.

“I live with rabbits for most of my life. From 1994 to 2003, I created a homepage for my pet rabbit, Oolong, and regardless of my own intentions, it became a hot topic all over the world and was even used as an Internet meme. My work has been featured in the New York Times and has had several photo exhibitions in Japan.”

法国著名作家阿纳托尔·法朗士所言：“只有爱过动物，我们灵魂的一部分才能得以苏醒。”

从一万四千多年前开始，宠物便成为了人类生活的重要同伴。它们教会我们同理心，让我们学会表达爱与承担责任，更在孤独时给予我们温暖的陪伴。它们不仅是家庭的一员，更是我们心灵的慰藉。

此次展览不仅仅只是一次艺术的欢宴，更是一次对宠物在人类文化中地位与影响的探讨。同时，Fotografiska影像艺术中心也希望通过这些展览作品，激发人们对宠物的关爱和保护。

更多打动人心的作品，欢迎至现场探索。

"Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened." - Anatole France

More than 14,000 years ago, pets has been a companion to humans. They are not only members of the family but also solace for our souls. They teach us empathy, help us learn to express love and take responsibility, and provide us with warm companionship in times of loneliness.

This exhibition is not just an artistic feast but also a discussion on the status and impact of pets in human culture.

Explore "The Pet Show" at Fotografiska Shanghai for more intimate and emotional artworks.

宠物总动员

The Pet Show

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2024.12.7- 2025.3.9

Fotografiska 影像艺术中心

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