标题Title: 爱情宾馆Love Hotel / 白雪饭店 White Snow Hotel
艺术家Artist: 孟瑾&方二 Meng Jin & Fang ER*
尺寸Size: 140x 140 cm
材质Medium: C-Print
这组作品拍摄于城市中的某一类小旅馆，也被称为“爱情宾馆”的隐秘场所， 爱情宾馆从前称作茶屋， 始于公元六O年代，主要作为妓女和嫖客使用的空间。然而经过多年企业化的发展，这类的空间已从地下化慢慢浮出台面。 并广被夫妻或男女朋友提供短暂寻欢的空间。这类宾馆一般都集中在市区车站附近，有些靠近公路的城市郊区，甚或在工业区。他的建筑有时是非常的夸张，建筑形状像城堡，船或飞碟，并与霓虹灯点燃照明。同时，也有许多爱情宾馆从外观上是非常普通的建筑物，他甚至在位置上很隐蔽，有的甚至没有窗户。爱情宾馆给人一种脱离现实的解放感，许多人在爱情宾馆中得到了精神上的慰留及庇护。宾馆所布置下的梦幻、想象、与甜蜜结合了平常世俗中无法的那部分满足，也只有爱情宾馆可以填补都市人生活所失落的那份爱！
爱情宾馆通常提供两种收费：一种“休息”所收取的利率约3小时 ，另外一个就是“过夜”的计算，通常时间和计价方式会比一般的旅馆饭店稍微便宜。由于价格的优惠，这空间有时也会吸引一些因经济条件而以此为家的客人。在拍摄的过程中，我们就曾遇过一住十几年的老房客。
2008年的尾声，我们因为有了新的生命即将诞生而重新调整生活的脚步，并因为这样我们有了机会一起拍摄第一组以两人合作方式的摄影作品“爱情宾馆”。捆绑是整体视觉的线索，而他本身“休息”所规定的“3小时”，便是每一个空间跟时间的一个交叉点。在房间里面找到的物品，对我们而言存在着双重属性：既属于爱情宾馆的那个特定的房间，也只属于我们出现之后的3个小时。 捆绑的努力是在企图打破这种既有的相互关系，牙刷和拖鞋的拥抱，椅子脚和枕头相遇，这些被重新聚集的物品对话虽然还是在房间里面表演，但同时也形脱离了它们各自原有的属性：偶然，而短暂的一次超凡脱俗。
一直以来，我们对建筑与记忆的关系很感兴趣，探讨建筑，家具和物品的存在方式所具有的社会属性，和历史的关联，以及它们的物理特性是如何影响了个人记忆。这组作品延续了这方面的思考，同时也通过摄影的手法来质疑我们观看的方式。
标题Title: 爱情宾馆Love Hotel / 正安大旅社 Center Peace Hotel
艺术家Artist: 孟瑾&方二 Meng Jin & Fang ER*
材质Medium: C-Print
The work is focus on “Love Hotel”, a type of short-stay hotel, many of which run subterraneanly for the purpose of allowing couples to have sexual related activities. It first appeared in 1960’s primarily called ‘Tea House’, often were used by prostitutes for their business. After many years development, those hotels became popular by public, especially for love couples. Typically, they located in city districts close to stations, near highway on city suburbs or in industrial area. Their architecture may be garish, with buildings shape like castles, boats or UFOs and lit with neon lighting. However, some of them come with very ordinary looking buildings, distinguished mainly by having small, covered, or even no windows.
Love hotel could extricate people from their pressure in reality and many people found mentally comfort and protected by staying in love hotel. Some hotels may feature fanciful rooms decorated with anime characters, equipped with rotating beds, ceiling mirrors. Even without that, for many love hotel users, love hotel creates fantasy and satisfaction feeling which their routine life cannot provide.
Love hotels usually offer a room rate for a "rest" ranging of 3 hours, as well as for an overnight stay. In general, love hotel is a bit cheaper than normal hotel excepting a few high-end ones. Perhaps because of the room rate, it may attract poor single men for their accommodation. During working on the project, we met an old man who actually lives in a love hotel for more than 10 years.
The last half of year 2008, we are slowing down our life because our first baby is going to be born. It is became a chance for us to start working together on this project: ‘Love Hotel’. Both of us have been interested in urban life, architecture, memory and found objects. Many of our work discuss the interrelationship between physical building, objects and their social context.
The visual clue in this project is about tie up the objects we found inthe room, while the entire process including photo shooting was within 3 hours, a period of ‘rest’. The physic room, furniture and objects as well as 3 hours were all became performers who we worked with. Love Hotel inspired us maybe because it was being used for intimate human relations, maybe just because of the mixed impression of garishness, pornography and a little mysteriousness.
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北京市朝陽區百子灣路32號蘋果社區（北區)3B-111 郵編100022
Room111,Building3B, PingGuoSheQu, 32 Baiziwan Rd. Chaoyang Dist. Beijing.
PostCode 100022
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