25年前，英国策展人、作家瓦尔·威廉姆斯(Val Williams)的《谁在看这个家庭?》该展览于1994年在巴比肯博物馆开幕，这次新展览将这个问题带入了现代语境。 备受赞誉的英国艺术家，如大卫·摩尔(David Moore)、特里西·莫里西(Trish Morrissey)和Léonie汉普顿(Léonie Hampton)等，都是首次在伦敦展出的艺术家，其中包括墨西哥城的玛丽拉·桑卡里(Mariela Sancari)、泰国出生的艺术家阿尔巴·扎里(Alba Zari)、伊朗艺术家阿马克·马哈茂迪安(Amak Mahmoodian)和来自南非的勒博汉·卡干耶(Lebohang Kganye)。 其中的一些亮点包括路易斯·奎尔(Louis Quail)的《老大哥》(Big Brother)，它将他哥哥与精神分裂症的日常斗争浓缩成一幅亲密的肖像照片，以及汤姆·布里奇(Thom Bridge)的《一只耳朵》(One Ear &“两眼”是展出的两张照片，这样就不会被同时看到，重新记录了他和他的孪生兄弟14岁时在护照上拍照的时间。 玛丽埃拉·桑卡里的莫伊塞斯沉思了她的父亲，她的父亲在她和她的双胞胎妹妹14岁时自杀了，她在媒体上登广告寻找和她父亲年龄和外貌相同的男人，后来她的父亲成为了她工作室重现的模特。 与此同时，勒博航·卡甘耶的电影《客拍腾》也提出了一个重要的观点:家庭照片不仅仅是对已经发生的事件的记录，它们也是一个空间，让我们投射我们可以回忆的东西，甚至是重新创造历史。 策展人蒂姆·克拉克(Tim Clark)说:“家庭不仅是人们之间的一个伟大的平等，而且作为一个主题，为当今摄影实践和视觉文化中的知识探索提供了一个非常丰富的领域。”“这里展示的艺术家们都展示了令人兴奋的和创造性的讲故事的方法，提供了叙事的门户，我们可以通过它来反思家庭经历的轮廓。” 现在是谁在看着这个家庭?将于2019年1月16日至20日在伦敦艺术博览会上展出。
25 years on from British curator and author Val Williams’ seminal Who’s looking at the family? which opened at the Barbican in 1994, this new exhibition puts the question into a modern context. Acclaimed British artists such as David Moore, Trish Morrissey and Léonie Hampton are featured alongside artists on display for the first time in London, including Mexico City-based Mariela Sancari, Thai-born artist Alba Zari, Iranian Amak Mahmoodian and Lebohang Kganye from South Africa. Just some of the highlights include Louis Quail’s Big Brother, which distils his brother’s daily struggle with schizophrenia into an intimate photographic portrait, and Thom Bridge’s One Ear & Both Eyes, a pair of photographs exhibited so that they cannot be seen simultaneously, restaging the time he and his twin brother had their passports photographs taken, aged fourteen. Mariela Sancari’s Moises offers a meditation on her father who committed suicide when she and her twin sister were fourteen years old - she advertised in the press for men that would have been the same age and appearance as her father, who then became her models for studio re-enactment. Meanwhile, Lebohang Kganye’s film Ke sale teng frames an important point: that family photographs are more than just documentation of an event that has occurred, they are also a space for us to project what we can recall, or even to reinvent histories. "Family is both a great leveller amongst people and as a theme, offers a very rich terrain for intellectual exploration within photographic practice and visual culture today,” says curator Tim Clark. “The artists presented here all demonstrate exciting and inventive approaches to storytelling, offering narrative portals through which we might reflect on the contours of familial experience.” Who’s looking at the family, now? will show at the London Art Fair 2019 from 16 to 20 January.
