【展讯】我与你，一场亲密与疏离｜北京

 我与你： 埃里克·索斯 

The Space Between Us: Alec Soth

开幕 Opening | 2022.01.01

展期 Duration | 2022.01.01 - 03.06

（逢周一闭馆 Closed on Mondays）

主办 | 三影堂摄影艺术中心

Organizer | Three Shadows

Photography Art Centre

协办 | 上海摄影艺术中心

Co-organizer | Shanghai Center 

of Photography

地址 | 北京市朝阳区草场地155号A

Location | 155A Caochangdi

Chaoyang District, Beijing

2004年，埃里克·索斯凭借《眠于密西西比河畔》这一拍摄美国小镇人物肖像的系列第一次受到关注。随后几个系列分别探索了从“爱”到“（不）可见”再到“逃离”的各种主题，每个系列都与美国中西部的生活背景息息相关。因其独特的视角，索斯被誉为当今描绘美国社会及地理图景最杰出的摄影师之一。

Alec Soth first caught attention in 2004 with a series of portraits of people living in small-town America, a project he titled “Sleeping by the Mississippi”. This was followed by a succession of projects exploring topics from love to (in)visibility to escape, each within the context of mid-western American life. For reasons of his unique perspective, Soth has been described as one of the greatest photographers of America's social and geographical landscape at work today.

埃里克·索斯，《查尔斯，瓦萨，明尼苏达州》，2002年。选自《眠于密西西比河畔》系列。©️埃里克·索斯，鸣谢纽约尚凯利（Sean Kelly）画廊。

Alec Soth, Charles, Vasa, Minnesota, 2002. From series Sleeping by the Mississippi. ©️Alec Soth, courtesy of Sean Kelly New York.

本次展览囊括了索斯重要作品系列——完美陌生人、寻找爱、眠于密西西比河畔、尼亚加拉、W的最后时日、破碎手册、歌本、我知道你的心跳有多剧烈中的代表之作。以系列为单位的创作是索斯一个独特而重要的艺术手法。“一个伟大摄影师的标志不是拍出一张惊艳的照片，而在于能构建一个完美的作品集合。”索斯如是说道。

“The Space Between Us” includes representative works from each of Soth's major series——"Perfect Strangers", "Looking for Love", "Sleeping by the Mississippi", "Niagara", "The Last Days of W", "Broken Manual", "Songbook", "I Know How Furiously Your Heart Is Beating". Working in series is an important and distinctive aspect of his approach. “The mark of a great photographer isn’t taking one amazing photo,” he says, “but the ability to assemble an amazing collection.”

埃里克·索斯，《帕特里克，棕枝主日，巴吞鲁日，路易斯安那州》，2002年。选自《眠于密西西比河畔》系列。©️埃里克·索斯，鸣谢纽约尚凯利（Sean Kelly）画廊。

Alec Soth, Patrick, Palm Sunday, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 2002. From series Sleeping by the Mississippi. ©️Alec Soth, courtesy of Sean Kelly New York.

埃里克·索斯首先是一位艺术家，他的思维就像是一位用“光”来进行创作的画家一般。虽然在他的图像中，亲密与疏离的情绪随处可见，但在他的创作手法中，最重要的是对焦点的精妙选择；不同于肖像摄影的定式，索斯最感兴趣的是通过强调物体之间的空间来突出他们的关系。一直以来，索斯始终在小心翼翼地探索他与被拍摄者之间的距离和空间关系。

Alec Soth is foremost an artist. He thinks like a painter whose material is light. While sensations of intimacy and isolation are found everywhere in his photographs, more important for his approach is the subtle choice of focal point; on the contrary to the conventions of portraiture, Soth is most interested in highlighting the relationship between objects by accenting the space between them. At all times, Soth carefully examines the space between himself and the subject.

埃里克·索斯，《比尔, 桑达斯基, 俄亥俄州》，2012年。选自《歌本》系列。©️埃里克·索斯，鸣谢纽约尚凯利（Sean Kelly）画廊。

Alec Soth, Bil, Sandusky, Ohio, 2012. From series Songbook.©️Alec Soth, courtesy of Sean Kelly New York.

索斯摄影的独特之处在于他创作肖像的方式。索斯喜欢走进一个人的生活，进入他们的心灵，就像踏入他们的生活空间一样。他将自己完全沉浸在某一时刻的情绪中，同样，这些图像也成为了他内心情绪的投射。

A unique aspect of his photography lies in the way he makes a portrait: Soth likes to step into a person's life, entering their psychological as much as their living space. Yet, in giving himself up to the mood of a moment, the photographs are often a reflection of his own mood as prompted by the encounter.

埃里克·索斯，李和昆塔维斯，韦尔县，乔治亚州，2014。选自《歌本》系列。©️埃里克·索斯，鸣谢纽约尚凯利（Sean Kelly）画廊。

Alec Soth, Lee and Quintavious，Ware County，Georgia ，2014. From series Songbook. ©Alec Soth，courtesy of Sean Kelly New York

索斯的最新系列《我知道你的心跳有多剧烈》是在长达一年的沉寂之后所创作的。在那一年中，索斯反复思考并追寻着一个问题：“一张照片究竟能够告诉我们什么？”或者说，“在这个每一秒都有50万个图像诞生的世界里，还有可能创作出有意义的照片吗？”在本次展览中，他的思考将通过他摄影生涯中的44多幅非凡图像逐渐揭示。

Soth’s latest project, “I Know How Furiously Your Heart is Beating” was produced after a year-long hiatus in which he pondered the burning question “What can a photograph really tell us about anything?” Or “How is it possible to make meaningful photographs in a world where half a million images are taken every second?” His musing is revealed here in 44 extraordinary images from Soth’s career so far.

埃里克·索斯，《文斯，纽约》，2018年。选自《我知道你的心跳有多剧烈》系列。©️埃里克·索斯，鸣谢纽约尚凯利（Sean Kelly）画廊。

Alec Soth, Vince, New York City, 2018. From series I Know How Furiously Your Heart Is Beating.©️Alec Soth, courtesy of Sean Kelly New York.

 · “我与你： 埃里克·索斯”展览呈现 · 

完美陌生人

Perfect Strangers

寻找爱

Looking for Love

眠于密西西比河畔

Sleeping by the Mississippi

尼亚加拉

Niagara

W的最后时日

The Last Days of W

破碎手册

Broken Manual

歌本

Songbook

我知道你的心跳有多剧烈

I Know How Furiously Your Heart Is Beating

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About Alec Soth

埃里克·索斯生于1969年，工作生活于美国明尼苏达州明尼阿波利斯。他迄今出版了超过25本摄影书。2004年出版的第一本著作《眠于密西西比河畔》广受赞誉，他继而创作了《尼亚加拉》（2006）、《时尚杂志》（2007）、《狗日子，波哥大》（2007）、《W的最后时日》（2008）、《破碎手册》（2010）、《歌本》（2015）、《树叶堆》（2015），以及《我知道你的心跳有多剧烈》（2019）。2008年，索斯在明尼苏达州创办了个人出版社小棕菇。

他曾经在各大国际美术馆举办个人展览，作品也被各大艺术机构纳入永久收藏，其中包括布鲁克林美术博物馆、洛杉矶郡艺术博物馆、芝加哥当代艺术博物馆、旧金山现代艺术博物馆、明尼阿波利斯沃克艺术中心和纽约惠特尼美国艺术博物馆等。

Alec Soth (born 1969) lives and works in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He has published over 25 books, including his first critically acclaimed monograph Sleeping by the Mississippi (2004). This was followed by Niagara (2006), Fashion Magazine (2007), Dog Days, Bogotá (2007), The Last Days of W (2008), Broken Manual (2010), Songbook (2015), Gathered Leaves (2015), and I Know How Furiously Your Heart Is Beating (2019) among others. In 2008 Soth started his own publishing company, Little Brown Mushroom, which is based in Minnesota.

His work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at international museums and is in the permanent collections of institutions including Brooklyn Museum of Art; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Waiker Art Center Minneapolis; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, amongst others.

鸣谢

三影堂在此感谢埃里克·索斯及埃里克·索斯工作室的伊桑·琼斯对本次展览的帮助，我们同时感谢上海摄影艺术中心艺术总监凯伦·史密斯及其工作团队对本展览的支持。

Acknowledgements 

Three Shadows Photography Art Centre would like to thank Alec Soth for his assistance in producing the exhibition, aided by Ethan Jones at Alec Soth studio. We also thank Karen Smith, the art director at SCoP,  and the team for their support of this exhibition.