100% Human, dyed real human hair, fabric, thread 120x80cm 2008
纯种人,真人头发、织物、针线,120x80厘米,2008
Ashery has been working with hair as a material and a referent, in various projects and contexts. 100% Human, 2008-9, are three rugs; blond, black and patterned coloured. Ashery made the rugs from real human hair. Apart from the historical associations of human hair in relation the holocaust, the rugs were made whilst thinking about the changing value and economy of real hair today, as it is taken away from people and used for fashion and art.
阿瑟瑞在许多方案和语境中都将头发当做一种材料和对象。纯种人(2008-9)是三条毛毯,白色、黑色、彩色有图案毛毯各一。阿瑟瑞用真人头发制作这些毛毯。人类的头发除了能让人联想到历史上的大屠杀之外,用头发制成的毛毯也能让人思考在当今时代真人头发日益改变的经济价值,例如它从人们头上脱离下来,而被用于时尚和艺术。
Returning, interactive space
回归, 互动空间
Returning is an interactive space where visitors wear a blind fold and draw their childhood bedroom from memory and leave a sentence next to it. The final drawings tend to have gaps between the lines in what meant to have been continuous shapes, and are akin to gaps in the processes of memorising a space and a time. The piece is potent in relation to movements of people and immigration, many people today do not leave where they spent their childhood. This also refers to the Universal Human right of people to return to their birth place.
“回归”是一个互动空间,在那里,参观者被蒙住双眼,然后根据回忆画出他们童年的卧室,并且在旁边写一句话。最终的图画会与它应该的样子有很大差距——它本应该是连续的形状——并且也必然会在回忆某个时空的过程中产生这种差距。这些碎片都是非常有力的,因为它们与人口流动以及移民有关。许多人至今也没有离开过他们童年生活的地方。这也暗指人们普遍具有的返回他们出生地的人权。