陶辉(1987年生于重庆云阳)以沉浸式视频装置创作为主,突破了虚构和现实的界限,主注与文化和身份相关的话题。他的作品具有本能性和挑衅性,同时与人以启迪,经常伴随强烈的情感力量以及一种流离失所之感,带领观众直面自己的文化历史、生活方式以及社会身份。
《表演教程》描绘了陶辉同名电影中的一幕。这里显示的是在课程进行的空白空间中的十三位女演员及其老师。影片制作过程中拍摄的黑白照片为场景增添了一定的风格感——影片是用彩色拍摄的,并且具有模拟的、非常规的美感——但仍然传达了这一堂中的情感张力。这部电影具有指向自身制作的自我参照元素,带照相机和录音设备的人们围着主人公们,然而却在照片中并见不到。
Tao Hui (b. 1987 in Yunyang, Chongqing) creates immersive video-installations that bend the boundaries of fiction and reality to address cultural and identity-related issues. His works are visceral and provocative, yet enlightening and always imbued with strong emotional power and a sense of displacement, inviting the viewers to confront themselves with their own cultural history, ways of living and social identities.
The Acting Tutorial depicts a scene from Tao Hui's film of the same name. Shown here are the thirteen actresses and their teacher in the bare space in which their lesson is taking place. The black and white photograph taken during the production of the film adds a level of stylization to the scene—the film was shot in color and had a mock-amateurish aesthetic—yet still conveys the emotional charge of the session. The film includes self-referential elements of its own production, men with cameras and sound recording equipment circling the protagonists, which are absent from the photograph.