衫 Clothes

Installation, 2020

粤语中,”衫“意为衣服。“好天晾衫”,“落雨收衫”,“着多件衫”,“冷衫”,“饮衫”... 一众用语,无比平常,包含生活百态,却也是每一个人对世界表达态度的载体。

“Shan” means clothes in Cantonese, which is the artist’s mother language. There are lots of local phrases and slang about hanging clothes that reflect citizen’s lifestyle and attitude。

Vans Tianhuan, Guangzhou

, 2020

同时,骑楼是南方特有的近代商住建筑,一种将底层的沿街通道后退以留出公共人行空间的建筑物。这种公共人行空间同时也是屋主的私人空间,屋主不得不将衣服“展示”到一个公共与私人空间并存的矛盾之中。

At the same time, the arcade building is a unique modern commercial and residential building in the South, the building that retreats a street passage on the ground floor to create a public pedestrian space. This kind of public space is also the owner's private outdoor space. The owner therefore has to "show" the wet hanging clothes to a contradiction between public and private.

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Vans品牌本身的潮流街头感,代表着年轻一代更为新颖的生活态度与世界观。而Vans广州天环店的高窄空间特性却令艺术家联想到骑楼,这种记忆中无比熟悉的本土建筑。在骑楼沿街中穿行,行人往往习惯从低处仰望。被仰望的位置,在理所当然的世界会为重要的角色所保留。而在这里,被仰望的位置则留给了“衫”这样的平常之物。

The brand itself of Vans has a trendsetting street feeling that represents the younger generation's more innovative approach to life and the world. The height and narrow space of Vans Guangzhou Tianhuan reminds the artist of the arcade building, the local architecture that is very familiar in her memory. In the arcade along the street, pedestrians often used to look up from the low. The place to be looked up to is reserved for important roles in the world of granted. Here, however, the upward position is reserved for such ordinary objects as the "Shan”.

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粉丸以轻质、幻彩及镂空等不同形式的材料,把“衫”用三层结构展现,配合风动效果,实现视觉饱满感的同时,也在更多层次发挥场景特色。作品希望将Vans天环店空间本身的优势特性和骑楼结构融合,同时将店铺的地理位置和市井“晾衫”场景反差结合,以此带来一种反叛精神。

Chen Fenwan uses light weight, iridescent color, hollow out forms and other materials to express "Shan" with three layers of structure. Wind effect added, to achieve a full sense of vision, but also in more levels to play the characteristics the clothes-hanging scene. The idea is to blend the dominant nature of Vans space with the arcade structure, while simultaneously contrasting the location of the store with the "hanging shirts" of the market, in order to create a rebellious spirit.

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