《卜桦：奇迹般》今日开展

OCAT西安馆 ｜ 《卜桦：奇迹般》

2021.09.08-11.07

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卜桦是2000年以来中国出现的最具特色的创意人物之一，她在创意领域的地位同样独一无二。2001年，随着一种名为“Flash”的新计算机技术推出，卜桦开始动画创作，并凭着她出色的叙事能力一夜成名。卜桦最初的动画作品是关于日常生活中常有的简单感觉和情境的短片，比如爱、忠诚、快乐和悲伤、韧性、困惑、坚持。她的影片包含了中国传统艺术中为人熟知又令人着迷的元素。她受到木刻的启发，并用现代图形风格大胆的黑色轮廓和明亮的色彩将其现代化。

回顾从2000年代初开始接触Flash动画到现在短短的二十年时间，卜桦创作了一个丰富而错综、被我们感受并理解的世界。一个用她的话来说“非常迷人非常可爱”的表面与隐藏其下的一丝焦虑的对比触及了所有关心这个星球，并担忧若是人类拒绝改变自己那未来将会如何的人。

Bu Hua is one of the most distinctive creative figures to have emerged in China since 2000. Her position within the creative field is also unique. Bu Hua began working with animation in 2001, following the launch of a new computer technology known as “Flash”, and became an overnight sensation for her skills in story-telling. Bu Hua’s first animations were short stories about simple ideas and situations that can be described as commonly experienced in daily life, like love, loyalty, joy, and sorrow, resilience, confusion, and perseverance.Her films include familiar and alluring elements oftraditional Chinese art. She is inspired by woodblock prints, which she updates with bold black outlines and bright colours of a modern graphic style.

Looking back over what is now the span of two short decades since her start with Flash animation in the early 2000s, Bu Hua has created a rich and complex world which is felt and understood by us all. The contrast between a surface that is, in her words, “very cute and very lovely”, and the seam of anxiety that lies underneath is one that speaks to all who care about the planet and wonder what the future will look like if we humans don’t change our ways.

“我对于生命中在意的是自由，做“艺术”是最快让我接触自由的途径，而Flash是我发现做艺术最好的方法之一，毕竟最终所有的事都是内心想表达的感觉。但独立并不等于自由，有许多人虽然很独立，但却只有少数人真正感到自由，所有究竟什么代表一个人自由？我的答案很简单：“无所畏惧即是自由，而只有在自由的陪伴下，才有真正的快乐。”

——卜桦

“My take on life is that the thing I'm really after is freedom. Making art is the best route for taking me there, and using Flash is one of the best routes to making art I've found. In the end, everything is about states of mind. Independence is not the same as freedom; many people are independent, but few are free. So what does it mean for a person to be free? My answer is simple: To fear nothing is to be free. The companion of freedom is true happiness.”

——Bu Hua

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