Re-memoring
Polaroid Workshop, 03 Sep. 2023
Visual artist and photographer JIAWEN WEI(JiJiWEI), shared her experience and emotions in the field of instant photography. Participants will be paired up and invited to collaboratively create Polaroid emulsion lift works on subjective memories and personal narratives, with imagery and text. Through the transforming the membranes of memories, the participants will catch a glimpse of the AND the enchantment of Polaroid transcending time.
As a photographer who practices both digital and film photography, JIAWEN has had a connection with Polaroid since childhood. Beyond her work in the photography industry's market context, JIAWEN often employs mixed media, text, and painting in her personal film projects to reinterpret past works. She views these records as a means to transport herself back to a purer sensation, communicating with the world using images and nuances that language cannot convey. Starting from a cheap roll of film from "Haiyin Photography City" in Panyu District 12 years ago, a single-image diary gradually became an outlet for JIAWEN's intimate emotions. Sharing these images with others and the audience, exchanging stories, constitutes an ephemeral intimate connection. Looking back at individual still images, the author's reconstruction of their own memories, for JIAWEN, is the best way to deal with memory. Conversely, capturing memories with a high-definition camera would lead to the loss of the memories' subjective states. JIAWEN chooses to embrace the ship of Theseus of memory with a romantic intent.
视觉艺术家兼摄影师JIAWEN WEI（JiJiWEI）在幸运锅分享了她在即时摄影领域的经验和情感。参与者将两两结对，受邀共同创作以主观记忆和个人叙事为主题的宝丽来乳胶转移作品，结合图像与文字。在转化记忆的薄膜过程中，参与者将一窥宝丽来超越时间的魅力。
作为一名同时从事数码与胶片摄影的摄影师，JIAWEN自童年起就与宝丽来建立了深厚的联系。除了在摄影行业的市场背景下工作，JIAWEN常常在个人胶片项目中运用混合媒体、文字和绘画，重新诠释过往的作品。她将这些记录视作一种方式，能将自己带回到更纯粹的感受中，用影像和无法用语言表达的细微差别与世界对话。
从12年前在番禺区“海印摄影城”购买的一卷廉价胶卷开始，JIAWEN的单幅图像日记逐渐成为她表达亲密情感的出口。与他人分享这些影像，交换故事，构成了一种短暂却亲密的联系。回顾单幅静态影像，对于JIAWEN来说，重构自己的记忆是处理记忆的最佳方式。而用高清相机捕捉记忆反而会丧失记忆的主观状态。JIAWEN选择以浪漫的心态，拥抱记忆中的“忒修斯之船”悖论。
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This is a one-of-a-kind mug created by visual artist Lik and her adopted stray cat during a workshop using Polaroid emulsion lift.
The artist Yangcheng imprinted his face onto a stone that once tripped him, using the emulsion lift technique during the workshop.
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