Wang Tuo
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The Interrogation
审问
2023
The Interrogation is a video constructed entirely from still film photography and photo shop collage – playing out as a photomontage along with a voiceover. The work is two narratives intertwined. One comes from an audio recording of the artist interviewing a local officer from the Commission for Discipline Inspection. In this interview, the officer talks about the psychological tricks he had used to succeed at his job interview. Then he describes the mental methods he always applies to his suspects during the interrogation process. The other narrative is a short story written by the artist and inspired by Ingmar Bergman’s movie Persona (1966). In the story, an actress refusing to speak and a nurse trying to make her talk gradually switch roles and turn into each other. These two narratives together bring to mind the complexity of the reality that we are currently in: Our everyday routines and the extreme situations that remain hidden behind our mundane daily lives intersect through a similar structure of communication. The roles that people play in these scenarios are thus in constant flux.
《审问》是一个由胶片摄影,图像拼贴以及画外音组成的动态影像。作品由 两部分叙述交织在一起 : 一部分是取材自艺术家对一位地方纪检委官员的采 访记录,内容由其陈说当年成功面试该职时所需的心理技巧,慢慢演变到描 述其日后审问工作中经常使用的心理手段。另一部分是一篇以英格玛·伯格 曼 (Ingmar Bergman) 1966 年的电影《假面》为灵感,由艺术家写作的短 篇故事。故事中,一个拒绝说话的演员和一个试图使其开口的护士在长时间 的相处中,悄然变成了彼此,互换了身份。在这个隐喻我们所处的复杂现实 的作品之中,人们熟悉的现实情境与隐蔽于日常的极端情境借由一种类似的沟通结构产生了丰富的交集,而在其中的人的境遇也因此发生变换。