在所見與所知之間

Between What We See and What We Know

日期: 30.09.2026
地點: 中國景德鎮

展覽介紹 / 中文

我們常常以為，知道先於看見。但更多時候恰好相反：我們先被一束光、一段距離、一個人的停留吸引，過後才慢慢明白，自己究竟看見了什麼。

這次展覽無法站在一個位置讀完。觀眾需要靠近、後退、轉身、上樓，穿過門窗，繞過柱子與牆面的轉角。觀看不只發生在照片內部，也發生在身體穿過空間的途中。

這些照片來自道路、街道、房間、親近的人，以及一些後來已經很難說清的時刻。拍下它們的時候，我們未必知道自己為什麼舉起相機。在語言出現以前，畫面已經先一步留了下來。

九位攝影師大多處在讀書、畢業、工作或準備前往下一個階段的途中。攝影不是生活之外的另一件事，而是在旅途、關係與日常的不確定中慢慢發生的。我們一邊生活，一邊拍照，又在回頭整理時，認出那些當時沒有意識到的線索。

這些作品來自不同的時間和個人經驗，也並非圍繞同一個主題拍攝。這一次，我們暫時放下原有的作者順序，用照片的大小、間距、疏密和位置，重新建立它們之間的關係。排版不再只是展示照片的方式，也成為另一種觀看。

一張原本沉默的照片，會因為另一張照片的靠近而產生回聲；兩個互不相關的場景，也可能在並置之後彼此補充、打斷，改變原來的方向。於是，一條公路與一個陌生人的房間相遇，一片陰影落在某段關係之後，一道背影喚起一段並不屬於他的記憶。照片沒有改變，目光卻重新安排了它們的位置。

攝影無法完整保存生活。它留下的只是其中很小的一部分：一個動作、一段距離、一處被光照亮的表面。畫面以外發生過什麼，我們未必知道；畫面以內所看見的，也不只有一種解釋。所見與所知之間，始終留著一段無法填滿的空隙。

人會離開，關係會變化，當時的情緒也會慢慢消失。但照片被留下，又在新的順序裡獲得不同的意義。

這次展覽不是為了尋找最後的答案，只是讓這些照片暫時在這裡相遇。

照片留在原地，觀看也許在離開以後才真正開始。

Exhibition text / English

We often assume that knowing comes before seeing. More often, the opposite is true: we are first drawn to a shaft of light, a certain distance, or the pause of a person, and only later begin to understand what it was that we saw.

This exhibition cannot be taken in from a single position. Visitors need to move closer, step back, turn, climb the stairs, pass through doors and windows, and move around columns and the turns of the walls. Looking happens not only within the photographs, but also as the body moves through the space.

These photographs come from roads, streets, rooms, people close to us, and moments that later became difficult to explain. When they were made, we may not have known why we raised the camera. Before words could take shape, the image was already there.

The nine photographers are mostly at different points between studying, graduating, working, and preparing for whatever comes next. Photography is not something separate from life; it takes shape slowly amid journeys, relationships, and the uncertainties of the everyday. We live and photograph at the same time, recognising only in retrospect the clues we did not notice then.

These works come from different times and personal experiences, and they were not made around a shared theme. For this exhibition, we have temporarily set aside their original sequences, using scale, spacing, density, and placement to establish new relationships between them. The arrangement is more than a way of displaying photographs; it becomes another way of seeing.

A photograph that once seemed silent begins to echo when another is placed beside it. Two unrelated scenes may complement, interrupt, or redirect one another. A road meets a stranger’s room. A patch of shadow follows a relationship. A figure seen from behind summons a memory that does not belong to them. The photographs have not changed, but the gaze has rearranged their positions.

Photography cannot preserve life in full. It leaves only fragments: a gesture, a distance, a surface touched by light. We may never know what happened beyond the frame, and what we see within it does not belong to a single interpretation. Between what we see and what we know, there is always a gap that cannot be completely filled.

People leave, relationships change, and the emotions of a particular moment slowly fade. Yet photographs remain, taking on different meanings within a new sequence.

This exhibition does not seek a final answer. It simply allows these photographs to meet, briefly, in this place.

The photographs remain where they are. Perhaps looking truly begins only after we leave.