开幕酒会：2009年8月1日 下午3点

展览时间：2009年8月1日至9月27日，周三至周日，11点至下午6点，接受预约

展览地点：缘分新媒体艺术空间 大山子798艺术区七星东街

Yam Lau

A Hutong House or an Unfolding of Evanescence

Jean-François Côté

Constructing the Image : The City - The Hardware - The Library - The Landscape

The Yuanfen New Media Art Space is honored to showcase French-Canadian artist Jean-François Côté and welcomes the return of Chinese Canadian artist Yam Lau. Jean-François and Yam have come together to create Imagining the Image, a unique exhibit that delves into the perception and conception of the image, moving beyond the typical image vs. reality construct. Although the two artists are divided by differing subject matter and artistic sensibility, they are united in redefining the "image" through experimental logic, weaving together the imaginary, conceptual and concrete.

两位艺术家的作品，展示了如何将一种"图像"的新型概念在经典图像与现实范例的外部加以构造。取代在经典模式化的一端固定一个绝对的界标，两位艺术家的作品要传达的是，一个"图像"是由复杂的维数和强度所组成。忽略在主题和情感上的差异，两个展览都将机械装置作为前景，以这样的方式，一种"图像"被拓展的概念可以根据一个逻辑的实验类型被安排与组装。

Yam Lau

"The purpose of my work is to subtract weight from the world."

Yam Lau's Hutong House is an animation created in order to capture the special spatial qualities of the traditional Beijing courtyard house. As Hutong House is a digital construction and produced through the assemblage of images it is not enough to be a house. However, as one watches the deconstruction process and evanescence of the Hutong House, the unfolding of the "house" manages to project the illusion of volume, and through this becomes quite real. The breakdown of the components which make up the animation reveal to the audience that it is not merely a hollow visual representation, but a physical house in the land of zeros and ones. Yam notes: "The animation is the construction of a space I would want to go to, its rhythm is a rhythm by which I would like to live. It is a projection of what I admire most in an ideal China." The animation of a disappearing Hutong House may also be a subtle commentary on the disappearance of much of Beijing's cultural heritage in the name of progress.

作品初衷——抽离世界之重

我创作的《四合院》是一部用来理解与留存北京地区一座精巧院落空间的影像作品 。《四合院》集合了不断变换的图像与平面，"不足以"被视作房屋。然而，我认为其中"房屋"瞬息万变的伸展过程呈现出了体量与价值上的虚幻性，这一点隐现于这场幻象之中。

这部影像作品建构出了一种我想要深入其中的空间，并展现出了我所期待的生活节奏，映射出我最为向往的"理想中国"。

Jean-François Côté

Jean-Francois' Constructing the Image series is about developing the image by forging together elements from the viewers imagination, the physical and the digital. The works are designed to reveal another type of image, one that does not correspond to any predetermined dimensions or modes of representation. The image is thus virtual in the sense that it is not entirely conditioned by the material reality of any artistic medium. In perceiving this image, the viewer moves inside a work that is not seen or represented. In a way, the viewer walks through the material image of the mediums.

建构图像：城市-硬体-图书馆-风景

本次展览是关于在虚构、观念以及具象等多重维度的复杂关系中所建构图像的方式。其中的视频与照片作品揭示出了另外一类图像，这类图像不会与任何先在维度或是再现方式相应和，图像的虚拟性也因此不会因艺术媒介质料的现实感而受限。在感受图像时，观者会步入一件未能见过或无法描绘的作品，以某种方式，穿行在各种媒介质料的图像之间。