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In “Surface Read”, I, as the main character, shuttle between different ages -- both between my personal ages and China’s historical ages. Not only to think over the connection between “decoration” and similarity, but also to consider how western culture influences Chinese people.
As an after-80s girl, my memory is full of Disney, Hollywood and other western fragments. Western popular culture through various cultural factors, including movies, affects the Chinese understanding of aesthetics. At the same time, the networked mode of communications is of a multicultural blend, and has also radically changed the cultural ideology of the Chinese people.
Through “studio photo,” everyone can be set as a Hollywood star. In one moment, people can play sexy Scarlett Johnson, or maverick Lady Gaga; or set the photo background in the Golden Gate Bridge or Beverly Hills. California culture is accepted and chased by the younger generation in China, and it is becoming a kind of Chinese social symbol. As a witness to this social symbol, studio photo is considered as a mirror in the form of Chinese multi-culture.
With an eye toward the universal, “Surface Read” links the ideas of the Chinese private aesthetics with the western cultural impact. Surface Read considers the profound influences of intercultural complexity, and questions the dichotomy between what is changing and what will continue in modern China.
表面讀數
在“表象阅读”这个作品中，作为主角，我穿梭于不同的历史年代，扮演了不同年龄阶段的人们。我在思考“装饰性”和“相似性”内在联系的同时，也关注西方社会对中国的影响。作为一个80后女生，我的记忆中装满了迪斯尼动画和好莱坞大片等西方片段。西方流行文化通过电影等多种方式影响着中国人对美学的认识，同时网络交流带来的多文化交融模式也彻底改变了中国人的文化意识形态。
通过艺术照，每个人都可以在一瞬间被定格为一个好莱坞明星。人们可以扮演性感的约翰逊·斯嘉丽或者特立独行的lady gaga，同时也可以自由的把自己的照片背景设定在金门大桥或比佛利山庄。加州文化如今受到中国年轻一代的接受与追捧，成为一种模仿对象和重要符号。而影楼照，作为这种社会符号的见证者，是思考中国文化形态的一面多棱镜。
“表象阅读”着眼于探究中国私人美学与西方文化碰撞后所产生的化学反应，揭示了多文化体的复杂性，并且令我们去深思为何当代中国在固话与变化中一分为二。