No Face
2020-至今
2019年,一部名为《极地》的人文纪录片打破我的生活,它讲述的是中国西藏那曲县的居民为了生活徒步去几百里外的盐湖采盐的故事。纪录片中人们的生活方式与对自然的态度让我深为震感,这是在我的生活中很少被提及到的:即保持对自然的敬畏。
我试着去理解与探索自然的魅力与力量,找到人与自然相处的平衡点。我先后去到了四川省西部、西藏阿里、新疆省北部、内蒙古省东部,它们是中国有名的自然地带,在这之后还有法国霞慕尼、冰岛南部、挪威北部。
这个过程持续了4年时间,我拍摄了许多照片,最终选出了12张最具代表性特点的场景,比如火山、沙漠、草原、湖泊、冰川......这些画面统统采用了居中构图与大场景,目的在于突出人的渺小。我将人造光淡化人原有的身份,只为突出其本质:“人类”。
在最自然的环境中用人造光照亮面孔,摆脱物质社会中的伪装,将独特的面孔归于虚无。 这种抹去面部的方式暗示着不论你是谁,对自然来说,都是无差别的。因为它是永恒的,而我们只是过客。我希望借此去探讨人类与自然的关系,阐述人类在广袤自然中的渺小,鼓励人们心怀对自然的敬畏与感恩。
APRIL 2020-2024...
The documentary "Extreme Road" tells the story of residents of Nagqu County in Tibet,
China, who walk hundreds of miles to collect salt from a salt lake to make a living.
They regard the salt lake as a goddess, a sacred symbol. They believe that once they have taken things from nature, they must thank nature for its gifts.
They are disciplined and are not allowed to be greedy; therefore, they take only what they need. They are pious and are in awe of nature, never wasting even a grain of salt.
The speed of social development is beyond our imagination. We take more from nature than it can bear. The discharge of nuclear wastewater into the sea, the Rhine River pollution incident in the 20th century, Minamata disease incident in Japan, etc.
In 2019, I came to Sichuan Province, China. I was impressed by its unique natural environment and its simple residents, who were very different from the people in cities. The documentary “Extreme Road” shows the lives of people in the endless Gobi desert. They are grateful for nature and are in awe of it. This made me reflect on and think about developments in modern society.
The “No face” project is born at the right moment. Faces are lit up with artificial lights in the most natural environment to get rid of the disguise in the material society and return the unique face to nothingness. We are written in water to nature, because it is eternal, and we are just visitors.