展览名：主题：公园
展览时间：2007年6月2日~2007年6月28日
展摄影师：严程、颜长江
展览地点：m97画廊，上海
严程的作品“回声”：主题围绕着沈阳工业地带，老旧的游乐园静物；颜长江的“夜间动物园”则将广州郊区动物园，野生动物夜间呈现出的自由与枷锁捕捉入镜。两组作品的视角都回避了公众人群，但同时都反映着人造的空间，供大众得以短暂逃离现实的消费性娱乐场所，与主题公园类型的建设区域。
严程的“回声”系列作品描绘了坐落于喧嚣城市里的一处恬静绿洲，无人的都市游乐场，生锈了的云霄飞车，仍充满了孩童时曾一度天真的回声。他的影像引人遥想过去。这组照片体现了岁月流逝的同时，摩登社会里人们娱乐方式的变迁；从早期的游乐园到现在的网吧、游戏机、与各式的电子虚拟游戏软件。“回声”令观看者把焦点放在：即使只是在一个废弃公园内散步，都不该失去纯真及真挚环顾生活的天性。
颜长江的“夜间动物园”描绘了被这组作品捕捉的，身在夜间围笼内、四处游荡的动物。长颈鹿和街灯齐身入镜；火鹤在水银灯之下被收录；摄下羚羊疾步跑过街道的姿态……颜长江的这系列照片，利用光源的手法，让这些珍禽异兽成为他“魔幻写实”的影像素材。所呈现的是：将人类引喻为这些被拍摄的园中动物，有时在夜幕内狂奔、有时在人造的街灯下寻求一丝喘息机会，但仍在我们自身生命主题的围栏内被囚禁着。
[Name] Theme: Park
[Time] June 02, 2007 ~ July 06, 2007
[Artist] Yan Cheng, Yan Changjiang
[Address] M97 Gallery, Shanghai
M97 Gallery is pleased to present “Theme: Park”, two black-and-white solo photography exhibitions by Yan Cheng and Yan Changjiang. Yan Cheng’s series of photographs titled “Echo” is a still reflection on the time-worn amusement parks in China’s rust-belt city of Shenyang. Yan Changjiang’s series “Zoo at Night” captures the freedom and confinement of wild creatures roaming the darkness in an animal park on the outskirts of Guangzhou. Without focusing on the public, both bodies of work are explorations of man-made public space, theme-park-like creations for human entertainment, human consumption, and human escape.
Yan Cheng’s “Echo” photographs are a meditation of silence in the city, an urban playground, void of people. The rusted rides and roller coasters somehow embodying the innocence of the children that once played upon them. Evoking a sense of nostalgia through his photographs, Yan Cheng’s “Echo” series is a testament to the passage of time and the ever-changing pleasures and pastimes of modern society. Now replaced by internet bars, video games, and a barrage of electronic and virtual entertainment, “Echo” asks the viewer to consider the notion of innocence lost and to ponder the profundity that can be found in something as simple as a day at the park.
Yan Changjiang’s “Zoo at Night” photographs depict animals on display and others roaming the darkness within the confines of a nighttime zoo. Giraffes juxtaposed with light poles, flamingos under floodlights, antelope running across paved paths. Yan Changjiang’s photographs attain a “magical realism” through his use of lighting as well as the exotic creatures that become his suburban subjects. In the end, the metaphor of his work implies that we the viewers are just as much the animals on display, at times running wildly through the night, at times looking for respite from the glare of the artificial street lights, all within the boundaries of our own theme park.
