“临时演员”自述
文/张巍
《临时演员》是我于2007-2010年拍摄的系列作品，完成拍摄以后，这些肖像与我的想象相差甚远。为了强化现实影像的魔力，我用电脑合成的办法使他们的五官互换，制造出一张张虚拟的面孔，甚至是虚拟的“人”。我不知道，为什么，随机互换的脸最终达到一种“相似”的效果。让我触动最深的就是每个人在镜头中特色的五官，一个个呆滞着的中国平常面孔上的每个小部件。身份的不同折射出精神层面的多变性，也体现出人在物化时代里渐渐演化的过程。高速变革的现实世界中，不确定的身份使大家都有可能变成临时的表演者……
《临时演员》儿童篇《童话》就是针对这种观点所产生的一组图片。在拍摄前，我放弃了少儿天性浪漫、自由、天真的主观意念，试图以“一个过来人”的角度，穿越时光碎片，回到自己的过去，遵循自己的童年记忆，成长、受教育、被关爱、被限制等元素为诉求主线，用图片来寻找表达关爱与伤害的矛盾主题。在拍摄的一瞬间，孩子们流露出来的是一种迷茫、感伤而不明就里的无辜神色。肢体、肤色、红领巾、背景粉色而暧昧的色彩，让这种无形而感伤的悲情气氛加剧。也许，《童话》是我刻意制造的一种真实，但谁说制造的真实就不是一种客观存在的恰好寓言呢？
STATEMENT of Temporary Performers
Extras is the series photographs I shot in 2007-2010, I pay more attention to their features when I choose the actors. To highlight the magic effect of reality, I have changed their faces through a computer, which could create a scene of performance. The thing that has impressed me most is the unique feature–small components in the sluggish look before my camera. The inner world changefulness of different ID represents the evolution process of mankind in the materialized age. Perhaps in the real world changing in a high speed, everyone can be turned into the temporary actor for their indefinite status.
Fairy Tales is children part from Extras series. Before shooting,I disgard the innocence of children ,try to look for the passing time based on my memories of childhood in the view of an adult who has come from that age, and express the contradictory theme about love and injury with these photographs. At the moment of shooting, the tragedy mood intensified by the confused, sad and unknown expression, the body, the skin color, the red-scarf and the ambiguous pink color of the background. Maybe Fairy Tales for children is a story which is manufactured by me on purpose, but who know it is not a fable to the reality.