High Life

品 30 #10 2017 年 7 月 In 2016, Vhils presented his first solo exhibition “Debris” in Hong Kong. After a year spent conducting research and exploration, Vhils brought this travelling solo exhibition to Macau as the second stop of its tour. “What I usually do is portraits of people, but then I use materials that the city expires to work on them,” he explains while walking us to a room where he has installed portraits of individuals carved into discarded doors found via recycling companies. “What I wanted to do with this show is to do half in Hong Kong and the other half inMacau, making the two realities and the two cities mix, in a way, in the show – both in materials and people that live in the same city. Thatwas thewhole idea. “The show will go to other cities and then one door will go out and one door from that city will replace it. In the end you’ll have a collection on different cities, with different people, and make reflections.” “我惯常所做的便是人物肖像，但现在会选用城市废弃的 材料来进行创作。本次展览我计划做到的是，展品部分来自澳 门，部分来自香港，让两个城市在现实中进行有机结合。”艺 术家一边解释，一边带我们漫步走进展览的其中一个空间，在 那里，他使用废弃的旧门作为雕刻背景进行肖像创作。 “这个展览还会被带到其他城市举办，届时我们会拿出一 个作品置换成另一个以来自当地的门为当地人创作的作品。如 是，到最后你就会收集到来自不同城市的作品以及来自那里的 人，并产生影响。” 从模具涂鸦到墙壁刻凿，从告示牌到丝网印刷、烟火爆破 乃至霓虹灯，Vhils 在不断尝试突破艺术表现形式的界限，以多 种媒介为手段探索艺术创作新领域。 Vhils 介绍说，“这些作品虽各有千秋，但其创作理念与在 墙上刻凿是相通的，皆是藉由破坏表层而创作出新的图像。这 一理念贯穿了我的所有作品。创造即毁坏。用黑笔在白纸上写 字时，那张纸便被毁坏；用树木制作纸张时，树木便受到毁坏； 而树木长出来之时，土壤亦受到毁坏。所以任何创作都是由毁 坏原物而开始的。于我而言，这就是创作过程的一部分。”