化石宴 Fossil Feast
《化石宴》重构了晚宴仪式与餐桌景观，将消逝已久的史前生命形式重新呈现为一系列完整而细致的“物质叙事”（material narratives），借此介入历史、记忆与当代身份之间持续的交涉与重组。不同于传统意义上的历史再现或纪念性叙述，艺术家并未试图简单还原那些无法真正重现的生命形态，而是强调化石作为时间与记忆碎片所携带的“物质幽灵”（material ghosts）。
Fossil Feast reconstructs the rituals and scenography of a dinner party, transforming long-extinct prehistoric life forms into a series of intricate, tangible "material narratives." Through this artistic intervention, the work engages in a continuous negotiation and reconfiguration of history, memory, and contemporary identities. Departing from conventional historical reconstructions or commemorative approaches, the artist does not attempt a straightforward revival of these irretrievably lost forms of life; instead, the focus lies upon fossils as "material ghosts"—fragments of time and memory that persist into the present.
《化石宴》由八道菜的完整餐席构成，每道菜品皆以真实的古生物化石与现存的食材相结合，艺术家通过地理与演化上的关联，创造出一种物种跨越时间“同席而食”的错置体验，例如已灭绝的菊石与其近亲章鱼并置一席，或将远古近灯笼海胆的化石与现存马粪海胆共同呈现。这种并置激进地模糊了过去与当下的界限，让历史与当代的时空叙事互相渗透，使那些不可再现的生命在象征性的物质仪式中获得短暂复现。通过这一创作方式，艺术家质疑了传统自然历史叙事中固化的线性时间与分类学结构，强调了历史记忆的碎片化与非线性本质。艺术家对味觉的细腻想象——比如将可能具有甜味的远古海胆化石与酸口的醋球相佐——进一步映射了德里达（Jacques Derrida）所阐述的“幽灵”（specter）与“踪迹”（trace）概念。这些化石的滋味是虚构的，却又具备某种真实的物质性基础；它们介于记忆的缺失与补偿之间，暗示着历史与记忆叙述的本质是一种不断滑移、无法固定的“踪迹”。
The work consists of a complete eight-course banquet, each dish meticulously composed by juxtaposing authentic prehistoric fossils with contemporary edible ingredients. By pairing components based on geographical and evolutionary relationships, the artist creates an uncanny illusion of disparate species "dining together" across temporal divides—such as extinct ammonites paired with their evolutionary relative, the octopus, or fossils of ancient lantern sea urchins arranged alongside contemporary sea urchins. These pairings radically blur distinctions between past and present, allowing historical and contemporary temporal narratives to interpenetrate, briefly resurrecting those irrecoverable forms of life within a symbolic, material ritual. Through this methodology, the artist critically interrogates the fixed, linear structures of traditional evolutionary narratives and natural history classification, emphasizing instead the fragmented and non-linear essence of historical memory. Moreover, the artist's delicate imagination of flavor pairings—such as combining the hypothetically sweet taste of ancient sea urchin fossils with acidic vinegar spheres—further invokes Jacques Derrida’s concepts of the "specter" and the "trace." These fossilized flavors are fictive yet grounded in tangible materiality; suspended between the loss and compensation of memory, they suggest that historical and mnemonic narratives are inherently unstable, continually sliding along the elusive terrain of the "trace."
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从森 Jungle Forest
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瓓珊 Sound of Jade
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