park｜公園
Black walnut wood, socks, motor, metal components
dimensions variable, Photo by Wang Jhong-Ping, Taiwan 2025.
黑胡桃木、襪子、馬達、金屬零件 ，尺寸依場地，王仲平攝影，臺灣，2025。
The concept of this work originates from the relationship between a caregiver, a care receiver, and a third observer. In the early stage of the project, I interviewed many people living with dementia and Parkinson’s disease, as well as their family members. I listened to their stories and the complex emotions hidden behind them. When facing such intimate life experiences, I kept asking myself: as an artist, how can I translate these deeply private emotions again, while keeping a certain distance, and allow them to appear in a form that can be guessed, read, and imagined?
In parks, it is common to see an elderly person sitting in a wheelchair, while their foreign caregiver quietly waits on a nearby bench. The elder’s gaze drifts blankly toward the sunlight. The scene feels ordinary, yet the distance between us and them remains—like you observing me as I observe them, as if you want to say something to me. Many different scenes can unfold on a bench: it may be about companionship, it may simply be a lazy afternoon, or it may just be a way of passing time.
這件作品的構想源自於「照護者與被照護者還有一位旁觀者之間的關係」。在計畫初期，我訪談了許多失智症患者與巴金森的病友以及他們的家屬，傾聽他們的故事，以及潛藏在這些故事背後的複雜情感。面對如此私密的生命經驗，我不斷問自己：身為藝術家，該如何將這些深度私密的情感再次轉譯，讓它保持著距離，並且以一種可以被猜想、被閱讀、被想像的方式出現。
在公園裡，隨處可以看見一位坐在輪椅上的年長者，而他的外籍看護靜靜地坐在一旁的長椅上守候著；老人的目光空空地凝向陽光。畫面如常，但我們與他們的距離依舊，如同你旁觀著我的旁觀，似乎想對我嘮叨些什麼？長椅上可以上演很多種劇情，可能是關於陪伴、可能只是一個慵懶的午後、也可能只是一種度過時間的方式。
Footage recording｜Yao-Jyun LIOU 動態影像紀錄｜劉耀鈞