遊園世外
劉慧德藝術展
Empire Recast
Solo Exhibition of Heidi Lau
中國澳門 Macau, China, 2021
藝文薈澳：澳門國際藝術雙年展2021 特展
Special Exhibition of Art Macau: Macau International Art Biennale 2021
策展人 Curator：林小雯 Sio Man Lam
藝術家 Artist： 劉慧德 Heidi Lau
展覽日期 Exhibition Period：2021. 9. 1 - 2021. 10. 31
展覽地點 Venues：澳門新葡京酒店 Macau Grand Lisboa Hotel、澳門上葡京綜合度假村 Macau Grand Lisboa Palace Resort, Macau, China
主辦單位 Organizer：澳娛綜合度假股份有限公司 SJM Resorts，S.A.
指導單位 Patronage：澳門社會文化司 Secretariat for Social Affairs and Culture of the Government of the Macau SAR、經濟財政司 Secretariat for Economy and Finance of the Government of the Macau SAR
支持單位 Supported by：澳門文化局 Macau Government Cultural Affairs Bureau 、旅遊局 Macau Government Tourism Office、澳門新葡京酒店 Macau Grand Lisboa Hotel、澳門上葡京綜合度假村 Macau Grand Lisboa Palace Resort
策展人言 Curatorial Statement
劉慧德成長於澳門，在美國生活和創作。過去十多年間，她以離散藝術家的身份遊走於東西方文化之間，以陶瓷為媒介，構建起自己獨特的雕塑語言。 《遊園世外》是劉慧德繼2019年參與第58屆威尼斯國際藝術雙年展後，在澳門舉辦的首次個展，深刻表達了她對這片成長土地的懷舊之情與內在省思。
劉慧德以手工製作其陶瓷雕塑及裝置，其創作往往召喚起澳門的原生文化和集體記憶。是次展覽分別於新葡京酒店及上葡京酒店舉行，靈感來源既有藝術家年輕時參觀何鴻燊博士藝術收藏的感悟，亦有她遊走於古舊花園和城市廢墟間的點滴回憶；這系列夾雜著家園記憶的創作，不僅是對逝水年華的追憶，更體現了劉氏在思考當代生活時所嚮往的超越性和他異性。
展覽蘊釀之時，適逢新冠疫情爆發，這場全球性的災難令無數人流離失所，無法返回家園；劉氏的創作有如另闢蹊徑，讓人們透過對記憶和文化的守護抵達精神的家園，在離散及疏離為常態的現代生活中，以感性和想像搭建出個體的異托邦。
Heidi Lau is a Macau-raised artist who currently lives and works in the United States. In the past decade, she constructed her unique sculptural language with the medium of ceramic, grappling with her identity as a diasporic artist positioned within the East-West continuum. “Empire Recast” is Lau’s first solo exhibition in her home city after she participated in the 58th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, which deeply expresses the artist's reflective nostalgia.
Lau’s hand-crafted ceramic sculptures and installations often summon the indigenous cultures and collective memories of Macao. Exhibited at the Grand Lisboa Hotel and the Grand Lisboa Palace, her work references her intimate experience visiting Dr. Stanley Ho’s art collection as a child, traces her wanderings in the old gardens and abandoned ruins of the city. This body of work not only embodies nostalgia for the past but also presents a pursuit of alterity and transcendence while Lau reflects on the current times.
Conceived amidst the pandemic when physical homecoming has become impossible for many, this exhibition offers access to a spiritual home constructed with salvaged fragments of cultures and memories, and creates, with works of sentimentality and imagination, heterotopias in an era where dislocation and alienation have become inevitable.
圖片來源： Photo credit: Vil Choi, SJM Resorts, S.A.
視頻來源 Video created by: SJM Resorts, S.A.
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