| 來自阿根廷布宜諾斯艾利斯的芙倫希亞‧蕾薇畢業於英國聖馬丁藝術學院接受繪畫訓練，並積極探索攝影、錄像乃至現地製作與工作坊的其他媒材的創作可能。在〈致人之地景〉中蕾薇以大眾媒體對於衝突事件詮釋之輿論霸權與再現機制為質詢對象，藉由Google街景為影像素材資料源，剪輯一系列如美墨邊境、卡達的尼泊爾移工勞動傷害現場、葉門與敘利亞內戰以及巴西原住民土地鬥爭等場景，配上新聞報導的對話與藝術家長期訪談流離失所的個人之對話檔案。靜默的Google街景不斷因轉換地點在視覺上呈現的拖曳失真影像，熟悉的報導式聽覺經驗與視閾的解離，片尾與美國德州墨西哥移工的訪談，試圖在媒體資訊化的生命書寫中，反轉並奪回自我的詮釋可能。 |
Coming from Buenos Aires, Argentina, Florencia LEVY received her M.A. from the Central Saint Martins in University of the Arts, London, actively exploring the possibility of using other media such as photograph, video, site specificity and workshop to create artworks. In “Landscape for a Person,” LEVY targets the discursive hegemony and representation of the explanations of conflicts in the mass media as the subject she would like to question. With the materials from Google Street View, LEVY edits a series of scenes such as the encounters around the Mexico–United States border, the spot of Nepalese migrant workers in Qatar injured at work, civil wars in Syria and Yemen, Brazilian aboriginals’ struggle for lands and so on, dubbing the news report voiceover as well as conversation from her interview of the homeless and the displaced. Silent street views from Google become visually distorted due to the constant change of the sites. This separation between familiar auditory experience from the reports and visual range as well as the interview with the Mexican migrant workers in Texas, United States seems to reverse the habitual media formula of telling life stories and to regain the possibility for the individuals to speak up and interpret their own stories. |
