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我閉上眼，體内喃喃不斷的聲音低鳴著，它隨著我的一呼一吸，失去重力在黑暗處飄浮。房間外的世界亮得刺眼，空氣湧進空洞的軀體，快要把薄如肥皂膜的皮膚撐破。
法國哲學家巴舍拉（Gaston Bachelard）在著作《空間詩學》中，以家屋意象類比人的靈魂，主張我們能透過回憶起家屋，學習安居於心靈深處，因為家「在我們裡面，而我們也在它的裡面」。在首次個人展覽《玻璃管內低聲說》中，藝術家盧可兒想像身體是一個房間，以一系列版畫、聲音和立體作品，描繪體內深遂之處。
人往往把聲音當作理所當然的存在，然而在嘈雜喧囂的城市中，我們有曾深度傾聽自己的聲音？在作品《In the Absence of…》及《在房間的一角》中，盧可兒把身體視為聲音的容器，借用聲音、物料與光影，重現身體的聲境（soundscape）。體內流動的聲音既是藝術家對自身經歷的親密解讀，同時亦是對外在環境的投射。隨著內與外的界線變陣擺動，一切明確的定義褪去，聲音迴盪於輪廓模糊、但充滿張力的房間。
在盧可兒的創作裡，聲音常化作幻影，反之亦然；藉版畫作品《無題》、《Sound on Paper I & II》和聲音作品《聲音雜記》，她展開一場貫通於視覺、空間及聲音的藝術實驗，以視覺召喚聲音回憶，利用聲音更新視覺想像。
絮語散落在畫廊各處，偶爾蜷縮在光影一角，或是窩進聲音的繭裡。
詳情：hkac.org.hk/calendar_detail/?u=CFNHWk8IIuE&lang=tc
I close my eyes and take a breath; murmurs levitate within the depths of my body. The world outside the room is beaming with light. Air rushes into my hollow body—nearly rupturing my skin as if it is the surface of a soap bubble.
In his book “The Poetics of Space”, French philosopher Gaston Bachelard examines the house as an analogy to the human soul, maintaining that we can learn to abide within ourselves by remembering the houses in which we have found shelter, because houses “are in us as much as we are in them”. In her first solo exhibition “Murmuring in a Glass Tube”, artist Connie Lo imagines the body as a room as she presents a series of prints, sounds and three-dimensional works to depict the bodily abyss.
People often take listening for granted, but in a bustling city like ours, have we ever listened to ourselves? In the works “In the Absence of…” and “In a Corner of My Room”, Connie regards the body as a sonic receptacle, and utilises sounds, materials, lights and shadows to construct a soundscape of the body. Sonic expressions are not merely an intimate reflection of the artist’s own experience, but also a reaction to her immediate surroundings. As we encounter these works, we constantly oscillate between the external and internal. Ambiguity looms while sounds reverberate in a hyphenated room.
Connie Lo’s art practice revolves around sonic imagery and the spatial contours of sound. With printmaking artworks “Untitled” and “Sound on Paper I & II”, as well as the sound art piece “Sounds Jotting”, she unfolds an experiment that connects visuals, space and sounds. Listening becomes an act of visualisation whereas seeing triggers our echoic memory.
Murmurs are scattered all across the gallery—there is a chance you will find them in a dim corner or a cocoon of sounds.
Details: hkac.org.hk/calendar_detail/?u=CFNHWk8IIuE&lang=tc
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