《大连幻景》（系列），2017-2019
以大连近代史为背景，通过摄影、装置、影像与声音多个媒介勾勒了一场以城市为舞台背景的“七幕剧”。来自不同时代的角色穿行在港口、楼梯、广场、旅舍、街道与剧场等空间中。在大连幻景的世界里，时空与国别的边界变得模糊，观者仿佛游走在过去与现在之间的平行世界，在多个异乡人如梦幻泡影般的独白中，隐隐回荡着一个跨越百年的无解疑问——“何为故乡？”。
项目的呈现由一系列摄影作品开始，照片中来自过去的轮廓等待着被细细识别，跟随着每一个时空的罗盘到达不同地点，与隐匿其中的人群相遇，城市空间在不同历史时期中功能和属性的转变在过程中被逐一呈现。在杨圆圆构建的空间蒙太奇中，时间与空间多重交叠，在此地经过的陌生人因对于同一座城市的情感和记忆而产生命运的交织。作品里每一个来自现实的过去时刻，亦幻亦真地构成此刻的世界。踏上展厅中央舞台的楼梯，穿过层层幔帐，进入杨圆圆创造的时空剧场：生于大连的日本作家用独白拉开序幕；黎明前圆形广场逐渐显露于人物的交叉叙述中；在大连耀眼的晨光下走进经历百年传奇的大和旅馆；中午在大和旅馆的餐厅里，对立面的两个时钟放佛映照出多个时间的刹那；城市中的第一座建筑于正午十二点印入眼帘；下午在不同的街道中漫步；夜晚来临后去到连锁街的剧场常盘座；遥望着黑暗的海面，驻足在海市蜃楼般的大连港等待着下一个黎明。杨圆圆意图使观者跟随剧中的十个人物，去经历这座城市来自不同时间却又永恒轮回的一天。
Dalian Mirage(series), 2017-2019
With Dalian’s modern history as its background, Luka Yuanyuan Yang’s project Dalian Mirage is a “seven-act” play is presented in a theatre set of the city through multiple media including photography, installation, video and sound. Characters of different times are passing through distinctive urban spaces such as harbour, staircase, square, hotel, street and theatre. In the world of Dalian Mirage, the boundaries of times and nations have blurred, viewers could walk freely as if being within the parallel time and space of the past and the present. Among the fragmented monologues of various “foreigners”, there is an unfathomable question that echoes throughout hundreds of years – “what is ‘home’”?
This exhibition is first conceived from a series of photographs. The silhouettes in these images from the past awaited for careful identification, with which we may arrive at different destinations with the compass of time, and encounter with those people hidden within them, meanwhile, the functions and properties of the various urban spaces from different historical periods surface throughout this process. In this spatial montage Yang Yuanyuan has constructed, time and space overlap in various ways, even the fate of complete strangers seem to connect as they come into it, and discover the same sentimentalities and memories they have in common of the same city. Every moment from the past, a fragment of reality, constitutes the world at this moment. Stepping on the stairs to the central stage in the exhibition space and passing through the layers of curtains, one comes into the time theatre Yang Yuanyuan mounts: it opens with the monologue of a Japanese writer born in Dalian; a round public square shot at dawn gradually emerges into the various narratives of a few characters; the images then takes the viewer into the Yamato Hotel, an establishment has weathered hundreds of years history, under the blazing morning sun in Dalian; at noon, in the dining hall of the Yamato Hotel, the two clocks at the front seem to string multiple moments into a trance; the first building of this city meets the eye at noon; in the afternoon, a stroll through various streets; with the arrival of dusk, one comes to the Tokiwaza theatre on Chain-Shop Street; looking out to the sea in darkness, one waits for dawn to arrive in the mirage at the Dalian port. Yang Yuanyuan hopes to take the viewers along with these ten characters of the play, to experience the city at different times of a day, that seem to merge into an endless cycle.
