台北當代藝術館 官方網站 Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei

本次展出作品主要取材自競賽用的幾種運動器材，包括跨欄賽跑的欄杆、乒乓球拍、棒球棍等，經過藝術家的加工改造之後，原本標準化的欄杆、球拍、球棒等各自有了不同的外觀造型，彼此之間也隱約存在著一種規格變化或形體變奏的邏輯，原先內在於各運動本身的競賽/遊戲雙重意涵，以及所有競賽幕後的社會運作系統等，也因為這些運動器具的獨立凸顯，和連結展示方式，而得到了擴充的意義和聯想的空間。 【熱身與超越】展，藉由七組空間裝置作品，將當代館的實驗展場虛擬為不同的競賽場域，類比了運動遊戲和現實生活中都得面臨的競爭與挑戰，如果說「靜」是當下的暖身準備狀態，「動」便是自我超越的具體實踐，在這展覽中，藝術家構設了靜態的物件、競賽系統、環境氛圍，穿梭在這些不同物件/符號群組之間的觀眾，演示了真正能動的主體－人和物之間的動靜對照和平衡關係，人與人之間的競合狀態和關係網路，現代人所承受的精神壓力與自我超越的期許等－毋寧也正是這些物件展示和運動劇場所要指涉和詮釋的。 Artworks included in this exhibition are mainly based on competitive sports equipment, such as hurdle fences, table tennis rackets, and baseball bats. These objects are transformed by the artist, and as these previously standardized athletic items take on different looks, shifts in standards and variations on forms seem to emerge as conventional logic is altered. The original duo meanings embodied by sports competitions/games and the social mechanism operated behind these competitive scenes are emphasized individually by these sporting goods, as extended meaning and imaginative potential are brought about by the interrelated approach opted for this exhibition. Warm up and Soar beyond is comprised of 7 spatial installation works, and it transforms MoCA Studio into various competitive arenas, as competitions and challenges one would face in sports and also in real life are simulated. If “stillness” is analogous to the state of warming up, “mobility” is than a concrete actualization of self-transcendence. In the exhibition, stilled objects, competition system, surrounding ambiance are designed and constructed by the artist to allow the audience to wander amidst these different objects/symbols and to take on the role as the truly mobile subject. Issues of contrast between stillness and mobility; balanced relationship between people and objects; competitive states and networks between people; and modern day people’s internal pressure and hope for self-transcendence are what this exhibition of objects and sports theater is referencing to and portraying.