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凌向汶 / Ling Heung Man-Doris

​​​Artist Statement:

 

我的作品 “ 對稱。完美 ”以批判的觀點對媒體以洗腦式的手段,扭曲人們的價值觀,特別是對美的標準作出回應。在作品中,顯示器(數碼相框)被六幅肖像畫圍繞著,那些肖像代表普通大眾,而中央的顯示器和它所展現的代表的媒體製造的假象。顯示器所播放的影像是那六幅肖像畫的主角,而它所顯示的是他們完全對稱的臉,這使他們看起來很怪異與荒謬

從小我已很喜歡觀察人們,並一直著迷於人類的情感。我目前的大部分作品是肖像油畫,而我從這些作品當中探索那些焦慮,狂熱和其他極端情緒狀態。我專注於我的題材,人與動物的扭曲,憤怒和驚訝的表情,因為我覺得他們最能反映我們所有的人,生活在當代社會的巨大壓力下,所產生壓迫的結果。所有這些令人吃驚,滑稽和荒謬的圖像,如對我們的社會作出某種藝術的註釋。



 

My work " Symmetry . Perfection " takes a critical view of the media brainwash the public to make people distort the values. In particular, the standard of beauty. In my work, six portrait paintings around the monitor (digital photo frame). Those portrait paintings represent ordinary people and the monitor in the centre represent the media that making the illusion. The monitor showing the perfectly symmetrical faces and they look ridiculous.

I love to observe people since I was a child, and have always been fascinated by human emotions. Most of my current works are portrait paintings, with which I explore states of anxiety, frenzy, and other extreme emotional states. I concentrate on distorted, angry and surprised facial expressions of people and animals as my subject matter, for I feel they could best reflect the result of stresses of all of us living under huge pressure in a contemporary society. All these outrageous, funny and absurd images, stand as a commentary of art on our society.



 


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