This work is to explore the static performance of memory in dynamic time. My friend is the protagonist in the photo, and what is recorded is a conversation between me and her about memory. This is the memory of a conversation between me and her from my viewpoint, the expression and documentation of the memory in the present time. For her, it is the experience she recalled in the past, and the memories that happened in the past are recorded through her facial expressions. The feelings you have when you see this work are memories that happened in the future.
Duan, JX. (2021) I think what I think [oil painting].
150 x 140 cm
Camberwell, London
Sort of images of work in a gallery situation
Emotions
Hans Bellmer's sculptures always dealing with themes of abject sexuality and forbidden desire. His surrealist artworks present dark dreams and subconscious desires. (Dunn, 2021) We have another emotion and desire buried deep in our memory. Hans bellmer's work collages different parts of the body into an emotional "torso". I'm thinking about why his works rarely show limbs. Usually only a strangely shaped torso. Later, I realized that when our human body is only the torso, our human body is still life. It has lost its initiative and is established. It is difficult for you to elaborate on the emotions that Hans Bellmer's torso brings to us because when I see his works, there are strong emotional fluctuations in my mind, but it is difficult for you to accurately describe whether this emotion is negative or positive. . As with the mention of "clown", does it represent sadness or joy? This is why I am particularly interested in the word "clown" in unit 3 because it seems to be a representative word of emotions and covers all complex emotions.
Hans Bellmer
The Doll, c. 1934
Gelatin silver print
10 x 12 7/8 in. (25.3 x 32.7 cm)
Duan, J.X.(2021) I am a Joker [digital painting]
Since memory leaves traces of the excitement process -engram on the cerebral cortex (Richard Semon, 1904, p.12), the existence of emotions is also attached to the memory.
Including both positive and negative moods. The artist subjectively and objectively processed and recorded their imagination of the sitter's emotions in the paintings. Then this portrait painting conveyed the emotions from the memories to the present, thus affecting the mood of every different audience. The two different emotions, negative and positive, will not be without changes as explicit memories. Because different people have different implicit memory, thus different people have different feelings about the same painting, that allows conversion between positive and negative emotion.
The emotions in these memories will change the viewer's mood by the current environment and situation of the audience: this is the function of empathy, which means the viewers will be affected by emotion in portrait painting and the artist's memories. Therefore, this type of transference in memory is also a point that I will integrate into my artistic practice to carry out research.