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A Battlefield is a Wishful Thinking, yet a Stamp is a piece of Paper
戰地是一廂情願，而郵票是一張紙
2022
Archival inkjet print, stamps
Multiple dimensions
戰地是一廂情願，而郵票是一張紙
2022
Archival inkjet print, stamps
Multiple dimensions
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Nine works from the photographic collage series, "A Battlefield Is a Wishful Thinking, yet a Stamp Is a Piece of Paper" (2020 - 2022), are on view in the exhibition, which are based on photographs taken by the artist during his visit to Kinmen. These photographs feature military and memorial relics and sites, such as the Kinmen Guesthouse, retired tanks, images of singer Teresa Teng’s visit to Kinmen for paying tribute and entertaining soldiers, along with other military ruins. The artist pastes old stamps, which represent a nation, onto the photographs, forming various signs, words, or meaningless patterns as a way to respond to or conceal scenes and objects of wars and battles in these “tourist” photographs. Kinmen as a battlefield has long become an impractical yearning, which is repeatedly recycled and utilized on different levels as a nostalgic instrument for political and emotional manipulation. Stamps printed with political propaganda constitute a similar instrument, which is still used to convey messages that are almost obsolete but not quite. When the two are combined in this work, they are complementary to the formation of each other’s contexts while canceling them out at the same time— the once glorious and burdened battlefield becomes a mirage, and the great ideology is eventually reduced down to a tiny, practically insignificant, piece of paper.
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攝影拼貼系列〈戰地是一廂情願，而郵票是一張紙〉（2020 - 2022）將展出九件作品。這些作品集合了藝術家前往金門探訪軍事遺址與紀念場館時所拍攝的照片，包括金門迎賓館、退役戰車、歌手鄧麗君勞軍畫面、以及其他戰地遺址。之後，藝術家將具有國家性的早期郵票實物拼貼於照片之上，以不同的符號、字詞、或無意義的圖形來回應或遮擋這些「觀光」照片中的戰爭景物。金門的戰地早已成為了一種不切實際的憧憬，它不斷的被循環利用在不同的層面上，作為一種操作政治與情感的浪漫工具;印有政治宣傳的郵票也類似如此，它們仍然意圖傳遞著某種幾近被淘汰卻又不被消滅的信息。當兩者結合時，它們既相互建立著脈絡，卻也相互扼殺彼此的脈絡──光榮而沈重的戰地成為了幻影，偉大的思想只不過一張薄小的紙片，最後變得什麼也不是。
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