「新安樂園」—多媒體影像展
8月28日 - 9月11日
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「新安樂園」—多媒體影像展
New Promised Land
– Video and installation exhibition
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「新安樂園」對照舊約聖經中的「應許之地」，英文是「Promised Land」：神向猶太人立約，只要他們遵從神的旨意，儘管路途艱辛，最終仍能走到一片屬於他們的豐饒之地。
●展覽日期 08/28 - 09/13
●開幕 8/28 7:00pm
●地點 綠屋仔（美副將大馬路55－59號）
●開放時間：中午12:00-晚上7:00
●免費入場
「新安樂園」同時也是澳門一間緬甸餐廳的名字，他們有號稱全澳最好吃的椰汁雞瀨粉。一碗小小麵食，代表了上一代來自東南亞的異鄉人，千辛萬苦來到澳門尋找一片安樂之地。
多年來，澳門成為不同族裔的「安樂園」。五百年前，葡萄牙人把澳門這片豐饒土地變成殖民者的樂園，但人民不甘服從，推倒過統治者的石像，渴望爭取屬於自己的樂園。四百多年後，中國重新定義這片樂園，高度自治，經濟發展成了這個樂園的新承諾，這片土地漸漸成為不少人心中最富裕的「新」安樂園。
樂園裡的人過著無憂無慮的生活，直至看到另一個樂園的崩壞，承諾一夜間變成謊言，美好表象下危機深藏，「樂園」不過是善意的想像嗎？
如果神的承諾沒有兌現，我們可以放棄信仰，如果「樂園」的承諾者或政權沒有遵守諾言，生活在這裡的我們該怎麼辦呢？
本展覽邀請三位本地藝術家，聯同三位與澳門關係密切的外地藝術家，以澳門為題，一名澳門藝術家配對一名外地藝術家的形式，探討「承諾」在「樂園」中的意義：
- 新生代的葡萄牙藝術家João Garcia Neto 試圖找尋殖民地過去的承諾，而本地藝術家區雁華則嘗試解構澳門已知及未知的「承諾」。
- 台灣藝術家張巧玉與本地藝術家邱逢霖透過不同的宗教信仰來探討「樂園」，以- 及神對人民的「承諾」；
- 身處同為特區的香港，香港藝術家白瑋琪與澳門藝術家劉景愉用影像對談，分享各自對「樂園」與「承諾」逐漸改變的感受。
我們邀請大家走進三組樂園，感受它們與現實社會的種種對照。現今的「樂園」究竟帶給我們什麼「承諾」？我們身為澳門這座城市的一員，又該如何回應？
●參展藝術家：
區雁華（澳門）X João Garcia Neto （葡萄牙）
邱逢霖（澳門）X 張巧玉（台灣）
劉景愉（澳門）X 白瑋琪（香港）
●Credit:
- 主辦單位：閒人公社
- 展覽及宣傳統籌：黃小雅
- 展覽助理：梁慧明，何烱元
- 展覽主視覺及冊子設計: Weronika JAŹWIŃSKA
- 策展顧問：林鍵均
- 文字翻譯：馬慧妍
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“New Promised Land” refers to the “Promised Land” in the Old Testament. God promised the Jewish people as long as they were obedient, despite all the torments, there would be a land of fertility for them in the end.
●Exhibition Period：08/28 - 09/13
●Opening：8/28 7:00pm
●Venue：N.º 55-59 Avenida do Coronel Mesquita （Mong-Ha Villas）
●Free Admission
“New Promised Land” is the name of a Burmese restaurant in Macao, it’s said that it serves the best coconut curry noodles in town. This small bowl of noodles represents the previous generation of immigrants from Southeast Asia. They came to Macao with all their hardships, just looking for a place of peace.
Macao has thus become the “Promised Land” for different ethnic groups over the years. Five hundred years ago, the Portuguese turned the fertile land, Macao, into the colonizer’s “paradise”, but the people refused to give in. They toppled the colonel’s statue, longing to fight for their own paradise. After more than four hundred years, China redefined this “paradise” then gave it new promises: a high degree of autonomy and economic development. This land has gradually become the richest “New Promised Land” for many people living here.
People in the “Promised Land” used to live without a worry in their lives until they saw the collapse of another “Promised Land”, in which promises became lies overnight, and the crises were all hidden under the beautiful appearance. Is “Promised Land” just a well-intentioned imagination?
If God doesn’t fulfill his promises, we can just give up our faith. What if the promisers or the government don’t keep their promises? What should we do living in this place?
The exhibition invites three local artists, together with three non-local artists who are closely related to Macao, to search for the answers. Under the theme of Macao, each local artist is paired with a non-local artist. They are to explore the meaning of “promises” in the “Promised Land”:
As one of the new generation of Portguese, Artist João Garcia Neto seeks the promises of the former colony, meanwhile the local artist Ao Ngan Wa deconstructs the known and unknown “promises” in Macao.
The Taiwanese artist and the Macao artist delve into the “Promise Land”, to question the “promises” from gods to people, through different religions and beliefs.
Living in Hong Kong, which is also a special administrative region of China, the artist shares her feelings about the gradual change of “Promised Land” and “promises”, and starts a conversation with the Macao artist through videos.
We encourage you to walk into the three groups of “Promised Land”, to feel the various contrasts between the lands and the society, and to reflect on the “promises” given by the current “Promised Land”. As a citizen of the city of Macao, how should we respond to these “promises”?
●Participating Artists
Kate, AO Ngan Wa (Macao）X João Garcia Neto (Portugal）
Reade, IAO Fong Lam (Macao）X CHANG Ciao Yu（Taiwan）
LAO Keng U（Macao）X Veronica BASSETTO（Hong Kong）
Organizer： Comuna de Han-Ian
Exhibition Coordinator：Peeko, WONG Sio Nga
Visual and Booklet Designer: Weronika JAŹWIŃSKA
Exhibition Consultant：Penny, LAM Kin Kuan
Translator： Galilee, MA Wai In
Exhitbition Assistant：Kiyu, LEONG Wai Meng, Ebenezer HO
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