台北當代藝術館 官方網站 Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei

如果你希望我說些什麼 我會說我看見一幅影像 來自德國的藝術家團體海希利西特(REICHRICHTER)將整個展名視為一個影像，而非兩個獨立的句子：「一幅影像將過去轉化為現在，或是將現在轉化成未來。如何讓語言成為一幅影像，而不使其視覺化? 如何讓影像成為語言，而不使其具有確定性?一件50年前的創作在今天遇見了我，藝術，是這個相遇的結果，於此刻發生，而這個相遇即為當代。創作從來不會維持相同的面貌，城市也不會。隨著金融市場的加速，我們的當代都市越來越多地以『流動』結構為特徵，這種結構阻礙了人類學的分層與經驗、故事和敘事的累積。德文中的『Wohnen』為生活/居住之意，意味著生活其實也類似藝術創作。」 海希利西特的創作主要根基於人類與居住環境的關係，並將主題聚焦在「空間」與「非空間」的探討，思考如何將日常對白與空間結構，介入觀念的藝術表現之中。本次展覽主要由兩件裝置作品組成，分別在MoCA Studio的兩個展間作展出。《房子與世界》以影像、聲音、文字平行敘事卻又交互疊映，讓觀者彷若同時穿梭於科隆、紐約、臺北三個不同的時空。隨著周而復始的日夜交替，藝術家與在地居民的訪談對話，也真實地刻劃出我們所處的都市紋理與空間。《百萬字之外》則是藝術家為本次展覽特別製作的新作品，身為臺灣藝術圈的局外人，海希利西特抱持著對當代藝術的實踐與好奇心，企圖以研究臺灣的觀念藝術發展為出發點，並且著眼於藝術與思考、藝術與哲學之間的重要關係。 本展以攝影、影像、聲音、文字、製圖、繪畫、物件、訪談等多元的媒材和內容，逐一建構出海希利西特的跨國創作與在地觀察，展場中看似各自表述的藝術語彙，實則一針一線地編織出龐大且緊密的都市意象。 If you want me to say something I could say I see an Image German artist persona REICHRICHTER sees the whole exhibition title as an image rather than two clauses,

“An image transfers what was into what is, or what is into what will be. How does language become an image without being visual? How does an image become language without being decisive? A work of art which is made 50 years ago meets me today. The art, that is the result of this encounter, happens in the present. This encounter is the contemporary. The work of art does not remain the same. Nor does a city. Accelerated by the financial markets our contemporary metropolis is increasingly formed by structures of 'flows' that hinder the anthropological layering and deposition of experience, of stories and narratives. The activities of living/inhabiting (German: 'Wohnen') resemble activities of making art.” The work of REICHRICHTER takes root in the relationship between human beings and the living environment and focuses on the discussion of “place” and “non-place” while exploring ways to reflect daily dialogues and spatial structures through conceptual artistic expression. This exhibition features two installations that take up the two gallery rooms of MoCA Studio. The House and the World interweaves parallel narratives of video, sound and text, leading viewers to traverse Cologne, New York and Taipei. Through interviews and dialogues with local residents day after day, the artist vividly delineate the urban texture and space of the city we inhabit. A Million Words Away is a new work created especially for this exhibition. As an outsider to the Taiwanese art scene, REICHRICHTER upholds the spirit and curiosity emblematic of contemporary art practice, and studies the starting point of conceptual art in Taiwan while addressing the important relationship between art and thinking as well as art and philosophy. In this exhibition, REICHRICHTER employs a diverse range of media and content, including photography, video, sound, text, mapping, drawings, objects and interviews, to gradually construct their international projects and local observations. The artistic vocabularies that seem to voice dissimilar ideas in the gallery rooms have, in fact, steadfastly woven an elaborate and intricate urban image.