HSU Yin Ling: All Happy Returns 許尹齡《所有快樂都會回來》
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HSU Yin Ling
All Happy Returns 19 September – 31 October 2015 Gallery EXIT is pleased to present solo exhibition 'All Happy Returns', the first solo exhibition with Taiwanese artist HSU Yin Ling. Paintings featured in All Happy Returns are all revolved around a character created by the artist – a taxidermist who is insentient to emotions, and thus different from most of the people, he has no way to attain any sense of belonging through love, the relationship with others and society. One solution to his cogitation is to physically embody these emotions and abstract relationships. He starts garnering chunks and pieces about human beings and bringing them together with redefined objects from himself into a collage of human gestures nuancing variegated emotions ratified by generic cognition. By displaying all this in front of himself, the taxidermist self-imposes an era of re-education regarding human nature. HSU’s subject matter has always been focusing on human behaviors and mental states. Her observed persons are the exact reflection of our existence in society. Every behavior comes about for the sake of “Someone” ‘s existence. The artist transforms this mode of life into varied elements and superimposes them on her created character. The scene in her works is taken from some everyday fragments through the process of exaggeration, while the collaged elements in the scene are taken from fragmented memories that once ran past our mind. Marrying the two parts sparks a distance that is both proximate to reality and yet inscrutable to common sense. HSU hopes that her spectators, while standing in front of these much gravitated elements, would be struck instantly by a covert comfort through re-experiencing experienced moments; meanwhile, they would also feel constantly anxious about being surveilled. This is the totalitarian power from any civilized society – those who fall outside the default system failing to integrate into the set rhythm only feel overwrought; in the meantime, the violence of civilization sequesters anyone who fails to be incorporated outside reality as pariahs. We are, inconspicuously and collectively, sunk into an enormous lethargy because of our inveterate penchant for acting out our instrumentality to complete our society and for forgetting the quintessence of Being itself. 
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許尹齡
《所有快樂都會回來》 2015 年 9 月 19 日至 10 月 31 日 安全口畫廊呈獻與台灣藝術家許尹齡首次合作的個展《所有快樂都會回來》。此次展覽所有展出的作品均圍繞藝術家預先設定的一個角色－－一名標本製作師。他無法體會到任何情緒，以至於無法像一般人一樣，在日常生活中透過愛、透過與他人及社會的關係得到歸屬感。在他的思考裡唯一的解決之道，便是將這些情緒和抽象的關係具體實現，所以他開始蒐集人類的碎片，並將其與自己所定義過後的物件拼湊成常人認知中代表著各種情緒的姿態，然後將這一切呈現在自己面前，對自己進行一場關於人性的再教育。 一直以來，許氏創作的題材都著重人的行為與精神狀態。這些被觀察的對象其實就是我們生存在這社會上的現狀，所有的行為都是為了證明「人」的存在。所以藝術家將這個模式轉換成一種種元素，並套用在她所創造出的人物身上。畫面的場景來自於被異常放大過後的日常生活片段，畫面中拼湊的元素則來自於可能曾經出現在所有人腦海裡的瑣碎記憶。兩者的結合將呈現出離現實不遠但卻又不為常理所理解的差距。許氏期望在這些龐大的元素跟前，觀者能與自己曾經歷過的共同經驗相遇，當下會感到藏匿的安心；同時亦感受到分秒都被監視的焦慮。文明社會就是具有這麼專制的力量，使融不進節拍裡的人在既定的秩序之下感到不知所措，同時，一種文明的暴力將不融於現實的人隔離在現實環境之外，好像我們不知不覺間集體地陷入一種巨大的疲憊中，因為我們一直習慣於扮演讓社會完整的工具，而忘記生而為人的本質。 | ||