The Albino No.1 白化人 No.1，2017，4K Video Installation (Color, Mute) 4K 视频装置(彩色，无声)，4’03’’；16 Vessels 十六个器皿，2019，Ceramic 陶瓷，20 × 50 × 20 cm × 2，Courtesy of Bank/Mabsociety
The Albino
As Susan Sontag mentioned in her book Illness as Metaphor, "For the expansion of the illness's category, usually we rely on two hypotheses: 1. Any deviation from societal norms can be considered a illness; 2. Each illness can be viewed morally and psychologically." Illness is gradually regarded as an effective way of self-introspection, with excessive moral and psychological judgments. It blames all responsibility on the patient, and reinforces their pre-existing fatalism inevitably.
In The Albino, the selected albino performer rigorously presents twelve body movements of anatomy illustrations from Andreas Vesalius's book On the Fabric of the Human Body, in a dispassionate, distant and ritual way. He resembles a live Greek marble sculpture with his muscular build and incomparably white skin, full of nature, poetic and classical characteristics. Despite his beauty, his resemblance to the Greek ideal, the albino’s other traits, such as photophobia, lacrimation and nystagmus, bring the audience’s attention back to the reality.
白化人
在《疾病的隐喻》一书中，苏珊·桑塔格曾提到，“对于疾病范畴的扩展，通常依靠两种假说：1、每一种对社会常规的偏离都可以被看作一种疾病；2、每一种疾病都可以从道德和心理上给予看待。”疾病逐渐被视为自我审判的一种形式，而更具道德评判与心理评判的特征。它将所有责任置于患者身上，并强化了那种业已存在的宿命论。
4K Video Installation (Color, Mute) 4K 视频装置(彩色，无声)，4’03’’
Performer: Zhang Jun 张俊，Photographer: JI Yanzhao 吉燕曌
4K Video Installation (Color, Mute) 4K 视频装置(彩色，无声)，4’31’’
Performer: Zhang Jun 张俊，Photographer: JI Yanzhao 吉燕曌
4K Video Installation (Color, Mute) 4K 视频装置(彩色，无声)，2’20’’
Performer: Zhang Jun 张俊，Photographer: JI Yanzhao 吉燕曌
4K Video Installation (Color, Mute) 4K 视频装置(彩色，无声)，1’00’’
Performer: Zhang Jun 张俊，Photographer: JI Yanzhao 吉燕曌