I Sign; I Exsit
我簽故我在 / 9 color photographs, 2001
汪曉青,我簽故我在,2001,25x15cm x9, 彩色相紙
Annie HC Wang, I Sign; I Exsit, Color Photographs.
Annie HC Wang, I Sign; I Exsit, Color Photographs.
Statement /
母親如同創造者
肚子漸漸隆起
持續的折磨終於有一點小小的成果 我的身體極為專注地創造一個生命 如同我用心創作我的藝術作品一般 為什麼這樣"偉大的身體" 一個能創造生命身體只是被視為一個"容器" 在我所認知的社會 母親在成為母親之初 就已被要求丟棄所有的自我 成為無名無我的母親 但 我怎麼可以讓我身為母親的創作權如此輕易地被剝奪 因此 我慎重的在我的肚子上簽下我的名字 它代表著我身為一個生命創作者的存在 也代表我對無名無我的母親形象的反抗 |
My belly was bulging gradually.
After incessant torment, there was a little achievement at last. My body devoted all its attention to creating a new life. It is like the feeling I encounter in making my artworks. Why this ‘great body’ – able to create a new life but being treated just as a ‘receptacle’? The pregnant mother is asked to surrender completely her own sense of self in preparation for the role of the self-sacrificing mother in our society. How could I let my rights as a creator (my sense of copyright) be taken away from me so easily? I carefully sign my name on my belly, as I sign my artworks. In this way, I assert myself as a creator of life. The act of signing stood for my resistance to the imposition of the model of the anonymous and self-sacrificing mother over my sense of self |