Stills

Stills 是摄影师 Burak Bulut Yıldırım 与艺术总监 Meryem Aydın 的合作项目。

Aydın selected and photographed thirteen everyday objects, among them a hand mirror, a suspended fish, a sponge, a crumpled ball of paper, pink roses, a peeled lemon, an old book, and a dark red apple. In the studio, five contemporary dancers were shown the same object photograph moments before the shutter was released. Instead of copying the object's outline, each dancer imagined its weight, texture, and tension, and turned that mental image into movement. Because each dancer internalises the same object differently, one photograph returns as five distinct bodily states.

一条被尾巴悬挂着的鱼，在一位舞者眼中或许象征着悬停，在另一位舞者眼中则可能代表着顺从——那是一具身陷于重力与升力之间的躯体。一张揉成团的纸，或许让人联想到崩塌，又或许唤起对曾经光滑之物的记忆。镜头记录下那个瞬间：当一个脑海中的物体意象转化为具体的动作，并最终凝结为一个姿态。

每张物体照片都配有它引发的五种回应：阿伊登（Aydın）拍摄的图像——在黑色背景衬托下显得冷峻而近乎法医般的——与耶尔德勒姆（Yıldırım）在柔和的灰色摄影棚灯光下拍摄的舞者照片并列呈现。 该物体始终独立且可命名；五个身体则以五种不同的方式对其作出回应。物体照片属于清单的范畴，其本身精确而完整；舞者的照片则属于事件的范畴。

这个标题蕴含着三种“静”。静物：这些物体照片属于将物品精心摆放以供观赏的悠久传统；静帧：从动态序列中截取的单帧画面；以及定格姿势所呈现的静止——对舞者而言，这正是运动中屏息的瞬间。