Site-specific Print Installation
Dimension Varies
收藏级数码打印照⽚
尺⼨可变
“A Real Fake Artist” began as a parody of photographic vocabulary utilizing 3D technology. A fictional model was fabricated based on Zhang’s image and was inserted in a series of photographs staged and taken as a real “backdrop.” The character is deliberately moved, as an image, from their “rightful” placement, creating a detachment between the subject of the image and their activity, meanwhile disrupting the perspective of the pictorial space. On top of each image, a self-referential structure is constructed, in which each image refers to the previous step of this image-producing process. Photos and supporting materials are printed, mounted, arranged, and installed as physical objects to form the final work.
The work responds to the relationship between the image and the image-maker. Through the process, Zhang reflected on his role as a practitioner and researcher in the ongoing massive image production industry.
《一个真假艺术家》是从利用3D技术戏仿摄影语汇的实验开始的。在一开始，艺术家参照着自己的形象制作了一个虚拟的模型，并将其置入到一系列图像中——它们是为这些置入所特意进行拍摄的。画面中，虚拟人物被从其“理应”的位置上移开，造成一种画面主体与其所从事活动的分割与对线性透视空间的扰乱。在这一视觉基础之上，一个嵌套与反身的结构被建立起来：每一张图像内容都指向作品制作过程的前一个步骤；最后，图像及支撑性材料被依照着制作过程的逻辑进行排列，并成为被安装在墙面上的实体作品的结果——一种过程与结果的相互指涉。
这一作品立足于探讨图像与制图人之间的关系。通过整个流程，艺术家检视并反思自己在当下海量的图像生产作业中作为实践者与研究者的角色。
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