視訊

Downcast Eyes

2014-2015

相紙裱褙 

Photo paper mount 

視訊

Downcast Eyes

2014-2015

相紙裱褙 

Photo paper mount 

“上了研究所後,與多年的女友分隔兩地,當時以為「視訊」這種科技,能幫助人與人跨越空間的限制來彼此照會,就如同通訊軟體的廣告影片一樣,親友們透過螢幕燦爛地笑著,分享著生活,一切都彷彿如此的近。那年我們開始頻繁地視訊,沒想到的是疏離來的如此的快,一切都彷彿如此的遠。

當我在與她聊天視訊的時候,幾乎無法不同時做一些別的事情,即便那是無足輕重的且完全沒有必要的,例如:整理桌子。而當使用電腦視訊的時候,視訊的窗口則會習慣性地被縮小到螢幕的一角,讓那張臉處在眼角的餘光位置,叨叨說著話。並不是不想聊天了,而是那想要,卻總是被帶走的感覺;在視訊上的每次「見面」,就是令人無法不分心,無法不放空。

透著螢幕看著對方的臉龐,隱現著的厭惡感覺,並不是源自兩人心不在焉地在對話著,而是在當你意識到那雙低垂的視線背後,注視的恰恰是你透過鏡頭所被看成的樣子。鏡頭與螢幕畫出的兩條平行視線,使情人間注目的神情再也不能映在情人的瞳孔上了。當不再能透過四目交會的瞬間感受些什麼的時候,構築了關係(愛情)的某些事物也就在這消逝了。” 

“After entering the research institute, I was separated from my long-term girlfriend. I thought that the technology of “video” could help people to communicate with each other across the limitation of space. It was like an advertisement video of a communication software. Laughing and sharing life, everything seems so close. That year we started to video chat frequently. What I didn’t expect was that the distance came so quickly, everything seemed so far away.

When I’m chatting with her on video, it’s almost impossible not to do something else at the same time, even if it’s trivial and totally unnecessary, like: tidying up the table. And when using computer video, the video window will be habitually reduced to a corner of the screen, so that the face is in the corner of the eye, chatting. It’s not that I don’t want to chat anymore, it’s the feeling that I want, but is always taken away; every “meeting” on the video is impossible not to be distracted and empty.

Looking at each other’s face through the screen, the looming feeling of disgust is not due to the absent-minded conversation between the two, but when you realize that behind those lowered eyes, you are watching exactly what you are looking at through the lens. The way it is seen. The two parallel lines of sight drawn by the lens and the screen make the eyes of the lover no longer reflected in the lover’s pupils. When something can no longer be felt through the meeting of four eyes, something that makes up the relationship (love) disappears here.”