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Absent Gallery:

How would you describe your creation?

你会如何讲述自己的创作?

胡觉:

人是自然社会的产物，脱离大的社会语境，便不再是鲜活的个体。这系列作品是我花了四年多的时间去观察和拍摄身边的人和事，当我看到人们在废弃的房屋内活动时，感受到一种过去、当下和未来交错的多重空间对话。为此我想通过对摄影作品的再创作，来打破既定规则的不可侵犯性，从而进一步的探讨个体和社会的关系，以及个体在社会语境中的困惑。我把人和废弃房屋，动物的骨头、牙齿、古瓷器片等作为我的创作元素，当我将这些元素放在一起时，有趣的事情发生了，它们之间相互碰撞与对话，产生了某种具有未来感的话语。以现实作为背景参照，经过对作品的多次叠加创作，在打破摄影、绘画、装置边界的同时，重新将三者组合在一起，以达到和谐的统一。这种创作方式即是对当下完美关系反思和质疑的投射，亦是在重新探讨历史、文化、社会以及人类所处世界的物质与精神之间的多重空间关系，使其具备更多可能性。

Human beings are the creations of the natural society, and when they are separated from the context of the larger society, they are no longer vivid individuals. I have spent more than four years observing and photographing the people and events around me in this series of works. When I see people moving around in abandoned houses, I feel a kind of multiple spatial dialogues in which the past, the present and the future are intertwined. For this reason, I want to break the inviolability of the established rules through the re-creation of my photographs, so as to further explore the relationship between the individual and the society, as well as the confusion of the individual in the social context. I take human beings and abandoned houses, animal bones, teeth, pieces of ancient porcelain, etc. as my creative elements. When I put these elements together, something interesting happens, they collide and dialog with each other, producing a certain discourse with a sense of the future. Taking reality as the background reference, after several superimposed creations of the works, while breaking the boundaries of photography, painting and installation, I reassemble the three together in order to achieve a harmonious unity. This way of creation is a projection of reflection and questioning of the perfect relationship of the present, and it is also a re-examination of the multiple spatial relationships between history, culture, society, and the material and spiritual of the world in which human beings live, so as to make it have more possibilities.

Absent Gallery:

What factors have influenced your creation?

请谈谈你的艺术创作受哪些因素影响?

胡觉:

首先我平时对自然界的每一样东西都非常好奇，特别是森林里的各种动物，虫，树木，河流，石头等每一个都充满生命力和各种不同的可能性。再次就是平时生活中所体验与发生的事，比如身边的拆迁的学校，和拆掉的老房子，刚被杀害不久的动物，被遗弃的工业厂房等都是影响我创作的因素。

First of all, I am always curious about things in nature, especially animals in the forest, bugs, trees, rivers, stones, etc. Each of them is full of vitality and possibilities. Another thing is the stuff that happened in my life, such as the demolished school, the old house, the recently dead animals, the abandoned industrial plant, etc. All these are the factors that influence my creation.

Absent Gallery:

What are your upcoming plans or expectations for the artwork?

未来对作品有什么计划或期待?

胡觉:

计划准备做一个个展把最近想的作品展现出来。希望自己作品可以能说些关于社会本有的问题却没有人去了解和思考。

I'm planning to hold a solo exhibition to show the works I've been thinking about lately. I hope that my work can say something about the problems that exist in society but no one understands or thinks about them.

Absent Gallery：

Please use one word to describe "Prelude". or describe in one word how you feel about "Prelude".

请用一个词汇描述“序幕”或者 用一个词汇描述对“序幕”的感受/想法。

胡觉:

序幕是结束也是开始。就像人与社会的关系，人类生命是有限的，但是人类社会的发展却从来没有结束。

The prelude is both the end and the beginning. Like the relationship between man and society, human life is limited, but the development of human society never ends.