母亲 — 郭桢&胡戎双人展

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文：付晓东

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空间站很荣幸的邀请到为母三十余年的女性艺术家胡戎和美籍华人郭桢举办题为“母亲”的双人展。在解救拐卖妇女、代孕不合法、生育率大幅下跌的今天，女性子宫被物性化、商品化，还是人性化？在网络社交媒体上发酵，被大规模讨论，反思。“伟大的母性”作为“牺牲”的代名词，无私的爱和全面的付出，也使这个概念成为一个崇高却又习惯性被忽略的存在。小梅花脖子上的锁链显而易见，可是更多的母亲那根来自于男权社会、父权家庭、婚姻财产的那根无形的锁链却更加隐蔽，无可逃遁。千百年来，母亲都以宽广博大和柔情似水的精神之爱，辛勤之劳，包容、浇灌、维系着家庭的系统。母亲甚至成为一个丧失主体性的形象，她的主体即是对孩子和家庭之爱。胡戎和郭桢的作品呈现了这个问题的两个面向，胡戎的作品有很多是在养育女儿的过程中完成，并通过对女儿儿童画的“以爱之眼”的观注和对话之中产生，强调无知之知，生命直觉，回到自然通感的生命母体的本初。郭桢则是在三十年的海外旅居的经验中，通过破除“假爱之名”男权式家庭男女剥削关系模式的经历，走上自我意识觉醒的反思之路。生命时间渡过的方法，即是最好的以人的生命作为材料的作品。物质上留下痕迹作为外显的作品，都是生命火花绽放时留下的痕迹。这些生命轨迹中的作品无一不展现出两位女性艺术家在不同的时空中所遭遇的身体、情感和思想上的波动。

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Our space station is honored to invite Hu Rong, a female artist who has been a mother for more than 30 years, and Guo Zhen, a Chinese-American, to hold a double exhibition titled "Mother". Today, while women are rescued from the trafficking and illegal surrogacy, the fertility rate dropping sharply, can the female uterus be materialized, commercialized, or humanized? It is continued on the social media, under broad debate and deep reflection.As a synonym for "sacrifice", the "Great motherhood" devote their selfless love and giving which also makes them a noble but often being ignored existence.The the little plum flower has obvious chains around neck. But the invisible chains that more mothers have had from patriarchal society, patriarchal families, and marital property are more hidden and there is no escape. For thousands of years, mothers have given their spiritual love which is vast, extensive, and tender like water. They work hard, tolerated, cared of and maintain a family system. The mother even becomes an image devoid of subjectivity, and her subject being the love for the child and the family. The works of Hu Rong and Guo Zhen present two aspects of this problem. Hu Rong finished many works during the period of raising his daughter, and produced through her observation and dialogue with his daughter's children's painting of "with the eyes of love". She pays more attention to the knowledge, and life intuition, returning to the origin of the life matrix of natural synaesthesia.Guo Zhen, on the other hand, embarked on the road of self-awareness and self-awareness through the experience of breaking the "false love" patriarchal family's exploitative relationship between men and women in his 30 years of overseas experience.The way of passing time in life is the best work that uses human life as the material.The works that leave traces on the material are the traces left when the spark of life blooms.The works in these life track all show the physical, emotional and mental fluctuations encountered by the two female artists in different time and space.