本次展覽「遠方的書間—阿緹蓉、太田直史聯展」,藝術家阿緹蓉將台北當代藝術館戶外貨櫃屋營造成為一間靜謐的書間,展間內的每一本書均包覆著黑色書衣,人們無法直接得知每一本書的書名、作者,唯有透過親自「翻閱」後才能知曉書本內容。阿緹蓉闡述:「這樣的書本,彷佛也隱喻著我們的生命。人們無法預知未來的發生,即使是下一秒也無法真正地預期…但是,當我們誠懇地面對當下、珍視我們的生命、尊重命運的流變,『面對未知的無懼和坦然』將會在我們的內心底蘊,孕育出豐饒的力量」。
《遠方的書間》觀眾可於展間內自由地翻閱書籍,阿緹蓉也安排有趣的抽籤方式,讓觀眾也可透過抽籤的方式和未知的書本相遇。展間內同時播映藝術家太田直史的錄像作品《光陰織物》,影像裡的各種生命影像,緩緩地編織著藝術家對於生命充滿詩意與哲理的思索和敬意。
With the exhibition A Bookroom Faraway Nearby — A Joint Exhibition by ADIRONG and NAOHITO OTA, the artist ADIRONG transforms MoCA Cube into a tranquil bookroom. Each book in the room dons a black cover, preventing spectators from directly seeing the title or author’s name –only when readers “flip through” these books for themselves will their contents be revealed. ADIRONG states that, “Books like these, seem to also hint at our own lives. We cannot foretell what may occur in the future, or even predict the very next second...and yet, when we are willing to earnestly confront the present, to cherish being alive, and respect the flow of destiny, a ‘fearlessness and honesty in the face of the unknown’ will be fostered from within the depths of our hearts”.
Participants of A Bookroom Faraway Nearby can freely skim through the books in this exhibition. ADIRONG has also arranged for chance encounters between the reader and a mystery book by means of a raffle selection. The exhibition will simultaneously screen NAOHITO OTA’s video project Scroll of hours, in which various footages of him day-to-day encounters are gradually woven together, expressing the artist’s musings and reverence towards the poetry and philosophy of life.