关注石头，废旧衣物这些平凡材料的日常属性，反抗现代性对历史记忆的消除，反思机械理性主义，倡导回归自然，打破艺术与生活的界限，唤起关于传统的、本土的感知和记忆。所以最终捡拾了一些被自然冲刷消磨之后的小石头，螺蛳壳，人类遗弃物。将上述物品放大，用漆器工艺做出来将其悬浮于林间水面。制作作品的大漆来源于漆树内部的汁液，棉纱来源于棉花，都是自然生长之物，人类应用已有几千年的历史；而被冲刷消磨的小石头，螺蛳壳等物体则有着更长的时间磨砺，其实这两者均为时间之物。漆树内部的汁液成为漆器之后放置到了树外林间，以悬浮的姿态使 “内与外”、“消磨与放大”、“沉与浮”都达成和解、重获平衡，同时以此重新拾回人与自然与历史的关系并展开对话。
The artist has been thinking about the everyday properties of such ordinary materials as stones and discarded clothing, about resisting modernity’s obliteration of historical memory, reflecting on mechanical rationalism, advocating a return to nature, a knocking down of the boundaries between art and life, and a reawakening of perceptions and memories of tradition and place. These led him to forage stones and shells that have been washed and polished by nature, as well as discarded human objects. He magnified these objects and used lacquer crafting to turn them into objects that float on the water among the trees. The lacquer used in producing this artwork comes from the sap of the lacquer tree, while the gauze comes from cotton plants. Both are natural materials that have been used by humans for thousands of years. Meanwhile, the eroded stones and shells have been polished for an even longer time. All of them are actually products of time. When the lacquer sap has been extracted from inside the lacquer tree, turned into lacquerware, and placed in the forest outside of the trees, a floating reconciliation occurs between “interior and exterior”, “polishing and magnification”, “sinking and floating,” reaching a new balance, thus recovering the historic relationship between humanity and nature, and initiating a new dialogue.
艺术家、斫琴师、馥慈山房主人。其作品以综合媒体环境下的空间图像叙事为主体，致力于图像生成和意识生成的质疑，关注意识与图像之间的阈值，以及图像对幻觉的固有影响和视觉文化要素在历史文脉演释过程中的研究。作品曾在美国沃克艺术中心，巴黎大皇宫，荷兰FOMA摄影博物馆，瑞典乌普撒拉美术馆，台北美术馆，浙江美术馆，天津美术馆，昆明博物馆，深圳何香凝美术馆，四川美术学院新媒体艺术中心，昆明当代美术馆等机构展出。
Guo Peng is an artist, Qin maker, and the proprietor of the Fuci Mountain Abode. His works mainly take the form of spatial image narratives within mixed media environments, striving to cast doubt on the ways in which images and awareness are generated, focusing on the threshold between image and awareness, as well as the influence of image on illusion and on research of the development of visual cultural elements within historical threads. His works have been exhibited in the Walker Art Center, the Grand Palais, Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam, the Uppsala Art Museum, the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, the Zhejiang Art Museum, the Tianjin Art Museum, the Kunming Museum, the He Xiangning Art Museum, the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute New Media Art Center, and Contemporary Gallery Kunming.
