洁西卡.芮娜(Jessica Rayner,英国,1985年生)毕业于全球顶尖艺术设计学府─英国皇家艺术学院(Royal College of Art),主修绘画与印刷艺术(printmaking),丰富的创作训练背景使芮娜灵活运用各类媒材于不同主题中发挥,2012年以新秀之姿入围德意志银行(Deutsche Bank Awards)十大潜力年轻艺术家,近年常于北欧各国进行多项光影创作计画,亦曾于冰岛拍摄地球能源耗损情况与气候变迁议题的作品《Metabolic Landscape》,关注光影、科学与自然的探索。

「我们以为世界是我们双眼所见的模样,事实是我们的意识赋予我们的所见意义。」成长于英国伦敦的芮娜,在旅行冰岛、挪威与格陵兰等极北地区期间,经过截然不同的感官体验,始投入自然环境相关题材创作,并聚焦于光与个体感知的互动与关係。「光」使我们得以见着世界丰富的形色,「知觉」的处理则赋予眼前的事物不同的意义,而透镜的应用使我们有机会放大视觉触及的可能,看见更多的未知,芮娜的系列创作即以此为出发,利用不同质性透镜、稜镜或自然介质使光发散,纪录下光行进的肌理与其缤纷光谱,将看似寻常的物理状态进行解构,突破我们视觉与知觉想像,并藉由摄影、绘画、异材质印刷、立体装置等不同的媒材表现,给予观者全新体验,由不同的视角望向我们习以为常的事物。

在看似冷調的創作概念背後,實為藉由無形的光影探討我們感知最深層的意識,芮娜的作品如同自然與科學不斷地相應對照。首度來台個展以《Faces of Light》為題,由八件系列作品揭示光的多樣面向,將觀者置身於稜鏡發散多彩的一端。展出作品Afterimage以拍立得(polaroid)拍攝一天四個時間點下光線於晶體中的折射變換,於時刻流轉間捕捉光與色彩;An Awareness of Light系列使用具極佳聚光特質的菲涅爾透鏡(fresnel lens)蒐集環境光線,並透過特殊印刷技術將成像印製於鋁板上,鋁板柔和的金屬質地不僅映出光的爛漫色澤,同時也使觀看當下的光源融入作品本身。「與現在相較,或許孩提時期的我們對於自然有更多的好奇與想像,而這也是藝術與科學發展的原因,我也想藉由創作與我的疑問進行對話」,芮娜不僅以有限的知覺探索無垠的議題,更讓他的憧憬引領我們往未知邁進。

Jessica Rayner received her Master of Art from prestigious Royal College of Art. Majoring in printmaking and painting provides Rayner multiple resources to create with different materials. In 2012, Rayner was included as a finalist in Deutsche Bank Awards which uncovered her potential in contemporary art. Recently, she works on several light projects in Nordic countries and continues her investigations into the properties of lenses, prisms, light and human perception.

“We think we see the world directly,” says Jessica Rayner, “but it’s the mind that provides meaning to what we see.” While traveling to Iceland, Svalbard and Greenland, Rayner was exposed to different perspective towards nature apart from her personal experience growing up in London. She began to examine the science, technology and energy of ‘things’, and focuses on ‘light’ and ‘human perception’. By adopting a wide range of media, including photography, drawing, video, printmaking and three-dimensional sculpture, she offers stories of origination, discovery, scientific analysis and social meaning. Granting viewers another point of view to see the world.

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