裝置藝術家 Installation Artist - 孫康杰和顏賢慧 | Sun Kang Jye & Gan Sian Wei

孫康杰和顏賢慧  | Sun Kang Jye & Gan Sian Wei

孫康杰是一位雕刻家,顏賢慧是一名畫家,目前居住在吉隆坡從事藝術工作。

Sun Kang Jye is a sculptor and Gan Sian Wei is a painter, and they are both living and working in Kuala Lumpur as artists.

重建富都监狱 | Reconstructing Pudu Jail

作品介紹 | Artwork description:

富都监狱像征對犯法的警捷,重視國家的法律制度。

富都监狱像征著公義的要求。

富都监狱的壁畫對比著富都监狱 里面的情景;如监狱里生活情況對比外牆的美麗風景畫,反過來說風景畫是調和外人對里面的情況。

艺术家以鐵閘門(roller shutter)作為呈現工具,再以富都一代常見的印刷厂印刷名卡作為畫面再現的富都监狱情景。

Pudu Jail had served as a symbol of deterrent to criminals for a century, reminding them about the rule of law and their destination should they break it. It is the epitome of justice in Malaysia. Its mural depicts the contrast between an incarcerated life within four walls and a life of freedom in a bustling concrete jungle. By inserting name cards in the roller shutter of a shop, the artists recreated the façade of the recently demolished Pudu Jail.

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裝置藝術家 Installation Artist - 張儒儀 | Teoh Joo Ngee

張儒儀 |  Teoh Joo Ngee

畫家,旅線畫室創辦人,曾榮獲日本國際交流基金駐福崗九州產業大學美術部擔任藝術訪問研究員。喜歡獨遊習禪,修行與創作沉潛並行。

Artist, founder of Walking Line Art Studio, Visiting Research Fellow for Japan Foundation Fellowship, Kyushu Sangyo University, Fukuoka, Japan.  She loves to travel solo and is a practitioner of Zen meditation, likes to spend time alone to explore her art and passion.

作品介紹 | Artwork description:

郵信箱房子 | Post Box House

此作品容悠于幻想般,同時含意無限。在這些變數之間,從心新造家園,發覺倒是可以自由地融合當代和傳統的表現,并從即有的題旨同化至崇高。雖然此作品几乎裝置于地下通道走廊陰暗處,甚至极少行人來往,然而,隨著距离、角度与時間的變化,在那里,我期望把它創造出一個非凡沈默的環境。從中我也想試探那是如何影響我們的空間經驗,尤其是對那些郵信箱用戶者和來往的行人來說。作為對空間的每一回應,促使每個片段或許能找到它個体性獨立自主的存在,顯然,藉此郵信箱房子裝置藝術作品,不斷變化成直覺性質,然后再以不斷變化的環境當中,我從我們自身面對如此的環境的自己而所產生的情感反應有所啟發,僅以此希望創造出一個內部的風景面貌,并抓住了自然本質的運轉。

This work is fantasy-like and infinite at the same time. Find a new home for your heart within these variables; make the new home from your hearts. I found the freedom to assimilate the essence of contemporary and traditional expression from the title to set a sublime mood. Even the installation site is almost located in the darker corner of the space where there is fewer passers-by. This allows me to create an extraordinary silent environment in terms of distance, angle and time. I am wondering and anticipating how this can affect our experience of space, especially for those post box user and people passing by. In regards to space, I have crafted the Post Box House carefully so that each piece can find its own autonomous existence. The Post Box House began to evolve intuitively as I draw inspiration from our own emotional responses to the ever-changing environment, hoping to create an internal landscape that captures the essence of nature in motion.

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裝置藝術家 Installation Artist - 黃英隆 | Wong Eng Leong

黃英隆  | Wong Eng Leong

生于1979 年哥打峇魯,目前定居和工作在吉隆坡,Findars 空間藝術的發起人。

Born in 1979 in town of Kota Bharu in Kelantan, he is currently based in Kuala Lumpur. Founding member of Findars artist collective and founding member of Findars space in Kuala Lumpur.

作品介紹 | Artwork description:

遺跡 (半山芭監獄記錄短片) | Vestige (Short video documentation of Pudu Jail)

一旦你拆除文化遺跡,就永遠也重建不回。

“A cultural heritage, once demolished, can never be rebuilt.”

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裝置藝術家 Installation Artist - 蕭意菱 | Juleen Sew

蕭意菱 | Juleen Sew

馬來西亞各地長大,在臺灣重生。愛藝術但不確定藝術是否愛她。冷漠天真固執地帶有理想。一生與懶惰奮戰,目前屢戰屢敗。不善於理財,完全把“藝術窮死人”發揚光大。

A Malaysian citizen who left for Taiwan as a meek girl to get to know art and returned as an opinionated woman full of ideals. She is deeply in love with her art but is not sure if the feeling is mutual, but never one to give up, Juleen is determined to bring her art to a wider audience.

作品介紹 | Artwork description:

討百家布, 接百家福 | Giving Out Blessings

在早期的華人社會,有做百納被的習俗,當家中有小孩過滿月時,親朋好友都會送來一片手掌大的布,由小孩的母親將這些零布縫綴起來,然后給小孩做成衣服或被子。用這种拼布做成的衣服稱為「百衲衣」或「百家衣」,被子則稱為「百衲被」,表示這個小孩穿各家的衣服、蓋各家的被子長大,不嬌貴,好養,長命百歲。

這個裝置作品最重要的是展現藝術和社區、路人、旅客的互動性。其互動過程有二個階段：

第一個階段,由藝術家和義工向此社區討布,在討布過程中的交談間接了解此地的一些小故事,進行交流。

第二個階段,邀請行走在走廊上的居民、路人和游客使用這些百家布條,在短繩子上面打個接,以回應半山芭社區,表達大家對社區的祝福。

In the early Chinese community, there was the custom of doing “BaiNa”. When a child is one month old or 100 days old, friends and relatives will each give a piece of palm-sized cloth to the child’s mother. She will gather all these cloths and sew them into a garment or a quilt for the child. Garment made with this kind of patchwork pattern is known as “Bai Na Yi” or “Bai Jia Yi”(Garments from Hundred Families), and the quilt is known as “Bai Na Bei”(Hundred Blankets). Wearing garment and using quilt such as these symbolizes that the child will be easy to raise and will live a long life.

This installation artwork is meant to show the interaction between art and the community, passers-by, and tourists. There are two stages to this interactive process:

In the first stage, the artists and volunteers collected cloths donated by the community.

In the second stage, artists invited the locals, passers-by and tourists and used the collected cloths to tie knots on the strings as a gesture of blessing the Pudu community.

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