策展人：林平
參展藝術家：程仁珮
藝術家程仁珮2019年的旅程將我們帶入了台灣北埔客家庄。一道道帶有濃濃家鄉味的客家菜餚與婚宴物件的綺麗組合，來自於藝術家與鎮上女性長輩的對話。她邀請她們遙想青春時代的婚嫁舊事，從她們的口述回憶中，或許是個銘記在心頭的畫面、或許是永難忘懷的情緒，藉著多年前婚宴料理的食材，結合婚嫁禮俗器具與她們的私人紀念物，交由藝術家拼裝成食物雕塑，並加以攝製成如碑牌的影像，以標記某個事件，回應某個人的生命故事。
身為非客家族裔的客家媳婦，程仁珮面對舊時的文化傳統，那一道道的菜餚不再單純擔任食物的角色，而承載著那個特定時空中千絲萬縷的意念，新嫁娘的心境、家族的期許、滿溢著的吉祥物與祝福語，這一切化約成象徵幸福的食物符號，卻同時是糾纏縈繞的文化道統。本來已經化作紀念物的喜宴食材，被以超越現實的比例放大，是活生生的慾望代表物，抑或是某個新嫁娘已褪色的夢想？來自個體的期望？或是來自集體的塑造？
回返2022年展覽現場的行旅展間，程仁珮刻意重新操作這套2019年關於媒介飲食與儀式的物質圖像，除了食材與物件的操作手法與擺盤想像，在艷麗、甚至帶著商業廣告色彩的背景色安排下，她此番企圖以文字詩所導入的聲音，來刺激觀眾對於滋味、口感、視覺景緻、祝福呢喃等知覺力的復甦，也成為能為攝影畫面帶來強烈感官的敘事手法。一面面臨場巨大的記憶圖像、一句句如同意識流般滲透視神經、嗅味覺與肌膚的嫁娘話語，觀者穿梭在咫尺之間，與無可避免的影像逼視，程仁珮究竟邀請你我參與了一場甚麼樣的當代文化喜宴？！
Exhibition from “Next Art Tainan”- Taste of Blessing
Curator: Lin Ping
Artist: Cheng Jen-pei
Artist Cheng Jen-pei takes us to experience the Hakka cuisines and the beautiful wedding ornaments in Taiwan Beipu Hakka village back in 2019. The artist learned from the female elders about the memory of their wedding banquets. These unforgettable images and emotions in their important day were pictured by the banquet food and the personal dowry. The artist photographed the food sculptures to simulate the event and perform someone’s life story.
As a Hakka daughter-in-law, Cheng Jen-pei experienced the old traditions. The wedding banquet is not only about food, but also representing the state of mind of the bride, family expectations, lucky symbols and blessings. The happiness is chained with the traditions and culture. The banquet is beyond the food and it is from the desires of the bride’s dream, somebody’s expectation or the crowds’ set-up.
Taking this exhibition to The Place Tainan in 2022, Cheng Jen-pei especially re-manipulated the 2019 set of images for the media food and ceremony. Beside the imagination from the layout of food and ornaments, she uses the poems to bring the voice into the display, like the commercial advertisements on such colourfull backgrounds. She intents to stimulate the audience’s sensation of the taste, texture, visual impact and blessings by not only the images, but the wordings for the viewers to feel the bride’s whispers while going through the pictures. Be ready to have a contemporary wedding bouquet invited by Cheng Jen-pei!
1983 年生於台灣，是一位以文化研究計畫結合視覺藝術的當代藝術創作者。她對飲食文化在這個時代所呈顯的樣貌深感興趣，不只是探討食物或料理，更著重其背後的構成因素，例如：民族遷徙、物產種植、食材運輸與加工、產業歷史與記憶、食物中涉及的政治性等，這些因素塑造出人們日常或特殊時節的飲食文化。她擅長的創作形式以當代藝術中強調藝術家表演與觀眾參與的方式為主，經常藉由旅行與藝術駐村涉獵不同區域的文化，用「食物雕塑攝影」來彰顯她對文化、風俗與環境的觀察與想像，並期望觀眾藉由她的創作興起對生活與自身或他者文化的自覺與省思。
Born in Taiwan in 1983. A contemporary artist, works on cultural research and participatory art. She is interested in food culture, not only in the food itself or cuisine, but the stories behind it, such as ethnic migration, farming, transportation and processing of food, history and memory, the politics with food involved in, etc., these factors form people’s daily and seasonal food culture. She is good at the works interacting with the audiences. She often discovers the cultures of different regions by travel and art residency. Using food sculptures to show her observation and imagination to culture, customs and environments and expects to inspire the audience to review their own culture and life.The project “Art For Social Change” is organised by National Tainan Living Art Center since 2020. The project host is Professor Wu Mali of Graduate Institute of Interdisciplinary Art at National Kaohsiung Normal University. The curator is Xu Yuanda, the assistant professor of the Department of Art History at National Tainan University of the Arts.
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