镜人是诞生在北京798艺术区的一面可以行走的镜子,镜人是一位穿者用镜面作成的衣服字世界各地行走的艺术家。镜人行走在都市的大街上,都市的景象成为镜人身上流动的风景,镜人则是这个城市的一个精灵,一个城市环境中的变色龙。
镜人是现代都市的产物,玻璃,钢铁,镜面,几何体不仅构成了当代都市的基本面貌,也是镜人的基本材料与外观。镜人不仅是一个人的符号,也有人的性格,他准确地反映了这个世界,也更精确地介绍了这个无常世界的变化。镜人是人的化身,是人的符号,是抽象的人和具体的人的结合体,镜人超越了阶级,阶层,文化,地域,种族,国度,职业等人为的各种界限,体现着自由的意志和平等的心态。镜人是一个活生生的人,一个有生命,有感情,有意志,有人格的人。他因为环境的存在而存在,他因为他人的光彩和获得自己的闪光。镜人是一个纯粹的人,透明的人,一个平面的但被肉体支撑的人。
镜人也是人的衣服,是艺术家发明的用来遮挡身体与面孔的衣服。和其他的衣服不同的是,这个不锈钢的外衣只只是遮挡人的正面,但裸露出人的两个侧面和背面。穿衣人的面孔变得不容易识别/这样镜人可能是任何人,可以是任何成年人,可以是你也可以是我,也不妨是他或她,有你的影子,有人类的共性。
镜人是一面镜子,不同于一般的镜子的地方是镜人时刻都是在行走中的,他有僵硬的五官和难以遮掩的表情。镜人是个矛盾体,反映了生存的经验和生活的感受。镜人在行走的时候,他是社会中的一员,当他在跳动的时候,他仿佛是天外来客。因为人们对他的认识反而模糊起来,他所反映的世界也变得骚动不安。
镜人走在纽约的大街上,路人异常兴奋,MY GOD!MIRRORMAN!这是他们最直觉的反应。在北京的大街上,镜人一起保安们的警觉,他们怀疑地看着镜人,不知所措!在他们眼力,不安定因素太多,任何不同一般的人和事情,他们最先的反映是担心出什么事情。
镜人将继续行走,在行走的过程中发现更多的精彩,并与世界发生碰撞与交流,留下精彩的瞬间。
Who is the MIRRORMAN?
The MIRRORMAN is a walking mirror born in Beijing’s 798 Art District. It is an artist, attired in a mirror-effect outfit, rambling through the streets in a city. As the artist walks in the street, the urban scenes become changeable scenery on his mirror-encased body. The MIRRORMAN is a fairy of reflections wandering through a city, a chameleon in its urban jungle.
The MIRRORMAN is a product of modern cities – composed of the same glass, steel, mirrored surfaces and geometrical shapes that make up the appearance of a modern city. It is not only a logo for Man. It is also endowed with a human personality. In a precise manner, it captures the constant of change, while faithfully reflecting the world around it. The MIRRORMAN is an embodiment and a symbol of Man – an amalgam of the abstract and the deconcrete Man. The MIRRORMAN is beyond classes, hierarchy, culture, geolocality, ethnic groups, nations, vocations, and all kinds of man-made categories. It embodies free will and equality. The MIRRORMAN is a living being with emotions, sensibility and personality. It exists as a result of its environment. It sparkles as a result of the sparks of the others around it. The MIRRORMAN is a pure, transparent man, a flat body propped up by a human body.
The MIRRORMAN is also an outfit devised by artists to shield a human body and a human face. Unlike most clothes, the steel garment only hides the front of the wearer and leaves his/her sides and back exposed. The person in the outfit becomes hard to identify, therefore could be anyone, any adult. It could be you. It could be me. Or it could well be he or she. It could be anyone’s shadow, and anyone’s shared humanity.
The MIRRORMAN is also a mirror. Unlike most mirrors, it is always walking. It has rigid facial features and indisguisable expression_r_rs. It is an entity of conflicts, a reflection of life and experience. When the MIRRORMAN is walking, it feels like a legitimate member of the society. But when it is hopping, it becomes more like an extraterrestrial being, because its image turns shifty and the world it reflects turns restless and skittish.
When the MIRRORMAN was walking in the streets of downtown New York, people got very excited. They instinctively called out, ‘My God! It’s the MIRRORMAN!’ However when he was pacing leisurely in Beijing’s streets, the city’s security guards got all alarmed and anxious. They stared at the MIRRORMAN suspiciously, not knowing how to react! To them, the world was a sure source of uncertain factors. At the sight of anything unusual, their immediate reaction was an incipient dread of what might went wrong.
The MIRRORMAN will surely carry on walking. While it is walking, the city will present it with more exciting incidents and developments. While it is walking, it will continue to interact with the world, capturing every fabulous fleeting moment.
【编辑:霍春常】