| 來自印尼雅加達的藝術家雙人組，伊旺‧安米特與蒂塔‧薩利娜，延續2015年於亞洲雙年展中進行之社會介入行動，以及兩件展出的錄像作品〈壽〉與〈灑鹽於海〉中，對於非法移工與印尼青壯年勞工人口外移的關注，提出〈飄零而形不離影〉創作計畫。〈飄零而形不離影〉的計畫源於五名遭監禁的非法漁工中，其中一名漁工與家庭的現況；由於父親仍身陷囹圄，母親為了生計被迫來台從事家庭傭工的工作，留下兩名幼兒在沒有雙親庇護的環境下成長。藝術家並未選擇如這類再現形式的視覺語彙來講述故事，而是選擇將離別的悲傷壓縮封存在紙片中，這組紙片是由藝術家探視孩子時，撿拾他們掉落的皮屑毛髮所製成，並試圖將該信件大小的紙片送達獄中父親的手上。與此象徵性團聚儀式並置的，是錄像投映所繪製的地圖中，當代共有的流離失所境況與遷徙路徑；紙片則深刻而脆弱的乘載著家族成員間的聯繫。因對勞動者的種族歧視而到導致人際關係間的普遍隔閡，形成大眾對於此種結構性暴力的忽視，〈飄零而形不離影〉，不但是對全球勞工流動潮依舊漠視者的溫情提醒，更是企圖從感知能動性中，重新找到彼此平等聯繫的見證者。 |
Irwan AHMETT and Tita SALINA are an artist duo from Jakarta, Indonesia. They have presented two video pieces, including Salting the Sea and Longevity, in conjunction with their social interventions at the Asian Art Biennial in Taiwan, 2015. Inseparable Flakes is a part of their continuous investigation regarding the living conditions of the undocumented migrant workers from Indonesia. The situation of the jailed fishermen inspired the project. One imprisoned worker whose children are left behind and the mother has no choice but to work as a domestic worker in Taiwan to make a living. Instead of taking on the representational modes of visual storytelling, such as the documentary, AHMETT and SALINA compress and seal the sorrow of separation by making a piece of paper with the discarded skin flakes from the children’s bodies in order to sneak this letter-sized paper into prison to the father. In conjunction with the symbolic reunion of the divided family presented by the hand-made paper consisting of human skin flakes, the shared contemporary circumstance of displacement and the migration routes as the context are showed through the presentation of video mapping. The extremely fragile paper carries the profoundness of the family bonds; the pervasive estrangement coined by simplified and racialized discourse leads to the collective ignorance towards such a structural violence. Inseparable Flakes is not only a gentle reminder for those who still turn their blindfolded faces towards the cruelty of global international migration flows but also an eyewitness of the sensorial agency attempting to reconnect us in equality. |
