SHAPING RIVERS
video documentary by Sita Spada
17minutes Taiwan 2014
LanguageEnglish
subtitles: English-Chinese
「形河」
台灣 2014
作者:宋思婷 Sita Spada
形式:紀錄片 17分鐘
字幕:英文 中文
"Shaping Rivers" is a short video that features the work of Marina Carvalho.
Marina Carvalho is a Portuguese land artist whose working process is intimately connected to the places where she is working.
She resided for 40 days at Treasure Hill Artist Village (Taipei) as artist-in-residence, and she choose, as material of her project, a taiwanese acacia tree, and indigo color, which leaves grown wild in Taiwan, in Yangmingshan National park.
So she paid homage to Taiwan and endowed the tree with new life by carving Taipei's three rivers: the Tamsui, the Keelung, and the Xindian.
Her work does not focus on technical achievement or the manufacture of "beauty," but instead views art as a something by which we can feel our own relationship with nature and so project ourselves in an environment free from obsession of utility.
「地景藝術必須融入自然環境之中,並與自然對話。
--瑪麗娜。卡瓦略
「形河」 是一部關於藝術家瑪麗娜創作經歷的紀錄片。
瑪麗娜。卡瓦略是一位來自葡萄牙的地景藝術家,她的創作模式是在一定的時間內將自身融入當地環境,以發展在地式的創作。
她於寶藏嚴駐村的四十天期間內,選用了台灣陽明山國家公園內自然野生的合歡樹與靛藍染料,作為這次的創作素材,也陸續拜訪了淡水河、基隆河與新店溪,之後以木造雕刻的形式重塑以詮釋三條河川的新生命。她的作品不限於純粹展示技術及美感的追求,而是將藝術做為一種表達自身與大自然相互關係的形式,並藉由作品將自我投射在自然環境裏。