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2022-04-25 16:01:15

她者变奏曲 ·当代艺术展

The Other（Female）Variations ·

Contemporary Art Exhibition

主办机构 / Organizers

海河美术馆、棉3创意街区

Haihe Art Museum, Mian 3 Creative Blocks

协办机构 / Co-organizers

798大库艺术中心、798第零空间

798 Daku Art Center, 798 Zero Space

出品人 / Producer

王海英

Wang Haiying

学术支持 / Academic Supports

佟玉洁、范晓楠、李裕君

Tong Yujie, Fan Xiaonan, Li Yujun

策展人 / Curators

韩雅俐、张长收

Han Yali, Zhang Changshou

策展助理 / Assistant Curators

陈雅琪、刘畅、刘云柯

Chen Yaqi,Liu Chang, Liu Yunke

参展艺术家 / Artists

（按姓氏首字母排序）

蔡雅玲、陈卓、何斯、胡佳艺、刘佩舒、孟小为、内田江美（日本）、庞晓、王韦、叶勇、张琳、中村绫花（日本）、周雯静

Cai Yaling, Chen Zhuo, He Si, Hu Jiayi, Liu Peishu, Meng Xiaowei, Emi Uchida (JP), Pang Xiao, Wang Wei, Ye Yong, Zhang Lin, Ayaka Nakamura (JP), Zhou Wenjing.

展览时间 / Exhibition Duration

2022年4月30日至2022年6月26日

30 April – 26 June, 2022

展览地址 / Exhibition location

海河美术馆（天津市河东区富民路38号西台大街棉三创意街区2-7）

Haihe Art Museum (Mian3 Creative Block 2-7，Xitai Street, No.38 Fumin Road, Hedong District, Tianjin)

她者变奏曲

文 / 韩雅俐

“她者”而非“他者”就是我们的宣言。

“变奏曲”而非“协奏曲”就是我们的态度。

“The other”作为一个后殖民理论术语最初常被胡塞尔、萨特等哲学家所提及，辗转翻译成汉语，自然而然的成了“他者”。这里我们不难看出是他们的权利制定了“他者”的存在。波伏娃曾在《第二性》中谈到：男人永远不会以性别作为起点去展现自身，他不用声明他是一个男人，但如果我想定义自己，就必须先说我是个女人，所有的讨论也必须以此为前提。在波伏娃看来，女性是被建构的，而这种建构是源于男性的观看和需要。

那么如何打破这种被观看、被建构的局面呢？我认为首先是女性意识的觉醒，要意识到自己被观看、被建构、被赋予了这样、那样的“本应该”，而这些正如无形的枷锁将我们所捆绑。于是想要打破这样的局面，就要有人发声、有人斗争，并开始革命。我们要从这种被建构的角色中脱离出来，要从他者的观看逻辑中转向“她者”视角，要从固有的社会本能和习惯中，呼吁更多的女性走向自我意识的觉醒！我们希望通过“她者变奏曲”的展览，让更多人了解女性生为女性最本真的面貌。此次展览我们邀请了十三位艺术家的近二十件（组）作品，她（他）们将通过绘画、装置、雕塑、影像、行为等不同的创作方式，诠释女性为之女性的觉醒之路。

此时，当我们谈论“她者”的时候，不可避免的与女性主义相关联。诚然，我们这里所强调的“她者”不是单纯的性别关系；不是利益、权利的平均分配；不是社会分工的绝对一致；更不是性别属性的完全消失。我们谈论关于女性的问题，不是在做性别的斗争与对抗，而是提倡女性意识的自觉。在我看来，女性意识的觉醒不仅需要社会环境意识的转向，更需要女性自我认识的转变，以及对自我认知的肯定。与波伏娃不同的是，如果我要定义我自己，首先强调我是我自己的，这种“我是我自己的”不是同意话语反复的空洞能指，而是有着深刻的自我认知意识，我不仅仅是个女性，我更是我自己，只有这种明确的社会性的突围，才能得到一个真正的关于女性的公平。

女性意识觉醒的第二步是女性对自我认知的解放，是从自我肯定中实现的，是对他者质疑目光的正面回复。上世纪的妇女解放运动，虽然使妇女的社会地位得到了提升，但女性与生俱来的独特气质也在革命中被割掉了，那种所谓的“男女”平等是一种去性别的差异化，是着装、行为上的一致性。实际上，我们从未有过女性主义的运动，当西方女性在为自己的权益作斗争时，我们那看似在轰轰烈烈的革命，其实质是使女性与所有被压迫人民一起翻身做了主人，这与西方女性通过斗争获得权益相比，我们似乎安逸于这种幸福。但必须指出的是，这绝不是女性对自我认知的解放。真正的自我解放是当面对诸如家庭、职场等现实问题时，如何能在饱受历史偏见与习俗排斥的局面下，保持自我的独立。女性应该走出自我预设的道德囚笼，释放女性自身的尊重需求，勇敢地去捍卫自己内心的声音，去为自己的欲望呐喊，去正视自我，去建立属于我们的她者目光。

自我认知的解放在我看来是一种深层次的突围，它主要存在于意识形态层面，这种突围最本质、最深刻、也最艰难。尤其是在现有的社会体制中，依旧遵从了男尊女卑的社会现实。如今，一个成功女性的标配是将时尚精致、身型健美、经济独立合而为一，在这一系列的概念中去描绘女性形象，同时试图营造一种女性的日常更胜于男性的美好图景。她们上的厅堂、下得厨房，精致而富有诗意，一切都是享受且惬意的模样。但问题是，这种女性叙事并不完全是女性自己所想要表达的诉求，也并不能从整体上代表现实女性的生存状况。同样的，这种美好的女性形象是通过男性的目光来审视，并最终通过男人的话语来提出。因此，这些形象难以避免地反映出男人的一种新的愿望和要求。女性形象在这里依然以男性为主导的话语权的操纵和支配，依然没有摆脱“角色”话的书写方式。

那么，女性该如何拥有自我的书写方式呢？在我看来就是“我是我自己的”、是自然而然，是没有一个决定者，不依他起，具有自在的、自源的、自己而然（self-so-ing）的生命状态。女性对于自我认知的解放不关乎于性别本身，是使个人意识走出传统道德所捆绑的囚笼，是在一个没有他者建构的环境中放飞自我。青山自青山，白云自白云，自己就是自己的决定者。进而回归到一种自已而然的状态。

2022年3月13日于北京

“The Other (Female) Variations”

By Han Yali

“The Other (Female)”, not “The Other (Male)”, is our manifesto,“Variations” rather than“concertos” is our attitude.

"The Other", as a postcolonial theoretical term, was often mentioned by Husserl, Sartre and other philosophers at first. When translated into Chinese, it naturally became “The Other”. Here we can easily see that it is their right to establish the existence of “The Other”. Simone De Beauvoir once said in The Second Sex that a man will never take gender as a starting point to show himself. He does not have to declare that he is a man, but if I want to define myself, I must first say that I am a woman, and all discussions must be based on this premise. In Beauvoir's opinion, women are constructed, and this construction comes from men's watch and needs.

So how do you break this situation of being watched and constructed? I think the first is the awakening of female consciousness, the realization that we are being watched, constructed, and given this and that “shoulds”， which are as the invisible shackles that bind us. So if you want to break this situation, someone has to speak up, someone has to fight and start a revolution. We should break away from this constructed role, turn from the watching logic of The Other to the perspective of “The Other (Female)”, and appeal to more women to awaken their self-consciousness from the inherent social instincts and habits! We hope that through the exhibition of “The Other (Female) Variations”, more people will understand the most authentic appearance of women born as women. In this exhibition, we invite nearly twenty works (groups) of thirteen artists, who will interpret the road of awakening for women through painting, installation, sculpture, video, behavior and other different creation methods.

At this point, when we talk about “The Other (Female)”, it is inevitably associated with feminism. Admittedly, “The Other (Female)” we emphasize here is neither a purely gender relation，the equal distribution of interests and rights, the absolute uniformity of the social division of labor, nor is it the complete disappearance of gender attributes. When we talk about women's problems, we are not fighting against gender, but advocating female consciousness. In my opinion, the awakening of female consciousness not only needs the transformation of the consciousness in the social environment but also needs the transformation of female self-knowledge and the affirmation of self-knowledge. Unlike Beauvoir, if I want to define myself, first of all, I will emphasize I am myself, this kind of “I am myself” is not agree with the empty signifier of rhetoric, but is with a deep sense of self which I am not only a female but also I am myself, thus, I will get a real impartiality about women by this kind of specific social breakout.

The second step of female consciousness awakening is women's liberation of self-cognition, which is realized from self-affirmation and positive response to the questioning eyes of others. Women's Liberation in the last century promoted women's social status, but the unique temperament that women were born with was also cut off in the revolution. The so-called “equality between men and women” is a kind of gender-free differentiation, which is the consistency of dress and behavior only. In fact, we never had a feminist movement, when western women were in the fight for their rights and interests, the essence of the seemingly vigorous revolution we were in was just to make women turn over to be the masters just as all the oppressed people, then, compared with western women to struggle for and obtain their rights, we seem to be comfortable in this kind of happiness. But it must be noted that this is by no means a liberation of women's self-cognition. The true self-liberation is how to remain self independent in the face of historical prejudices and conventions when faced with practical problems such as family and work. Women should get out of the moral cage preset by ourselves, release our own demands for respect, bravely defend our inner voice, shout for our own desires, face up to ourselves, and establish our own vision of the Other (female).

In my opinion, the liberation of self-cognition is a kind of deep-seated breakthrough, which mainly exists in the ideological level. This kind of breakthrough is the most essential, the most profound and the most difficult. Especially in the existing social system, the social reality that men are superior to women is still followed. Today, the standard for a successful woman is a combination of being fashionable, sophisticated, fit and financial independent. Under these series of concepts that portray women, people try to create a rosy picture of women's daily lives being superior to men's. They can switch freely between the hall and the kitchen, they are delicate and poetic, they always keep the enjoyable and comfortable appearances. However, the problem is that such female narration is not exactly what women want to express, nor can it represent the real living conditions of women as a whole. Similarly, this beautiful female image is examined by the eyes of men, and finally put forth through the words of men. Therefore, these images inevitably reflect a new desire and demand of men. The female image here is still manipulated and dominated by the male-dominated voice, and still has not got rid of the writing way of “role-playing”.

So how can women own their way of writing? It seems to me that “I am myself”, that it is natural, that there is no decision maker being relied on, and that there is a state of being that is at ease, self-originating, and self-so-ing. Women's liberation of self-cognition is not related to gender itself, but to make individual consciousness get out of the cage bound by traditional morality and to release themselves in an environment without the construction of others, every mountain is its own decider and every cloud is its own decider, and then, it returns to a state of its own spontaneousness.

March 13, 2022 in Beijing