当我们第一次访问海晏村，有两件事吸引我们注意：一是村里的老屋后面藏着许多小院子小花园，这些小花园有一种特殊的魅力，他们没有古代古典园林的精致，但它们带着日常生活的气息，里面的植物都长得很好。这些院子里往往有一些不可预料的配搭：斑驳的油漆桶，用旧的锅子，各种生活中不舍得扔掉的锅碗瓢盆，物尽其用，自然而然，都可以成为盛放土壤和鲜花的容器。从艺术家眼光来看，这里能够令我们想象一个当下最有趣味的花园。所以我们的创意是对这些充满生活智慧的小花园之致敬。另一个是，村里的主要道路上经常有摩托车呼啸而过。摩托，滇池，落日，据说已经成为时髦的网红密码。这些穿着皮衣，戴着头盔的年轻人空降到这个传统村落，恍惚间有点像太空人，又或是外星人造访。这令我们想到，可以将作品命名为 “飞行花园” 。
When we first visited Haiyan Village, two things caught our attention: one is that there are many small courtyards and gardens hidden behind the old houses in the village. These small gardens have a special charm. They are not as exquisite as ancient classical gardens, but they have the flavor of daily life, and the plants grow well in them. There are often some unexpected matches in these courtyards: mottled paint buckets, used pots, and various pots and pans that we are reluctant to throw away in life. They make the best use of them and naturally become containers for soil and flowers. From the perspective of artists, this allows us to imagine the most interesting garden at present. So our idea is to pay tribute to these small gardens full of life wisdom. The other is that there are often motorcycles roaring along the main road in the village.Motorcycles, Dianchi Lake, and sunset are said to have become the fashionable code of Internet celebrities.These young people in leather clothes and helmets parachute into this traditional village, a bit like astronauts or aliens visiting. This made us think that we could name the work "Flying Garden".
我们设计了一个用摩托车头盔做花盆的雕塑。我们选择村长母亲家的小院子来搭建我们的花园。这里离看落日的 “网红打卡点” 不远。我们希望到此一游的人们有兴趣进入这个奇怪的小花园，绕道自拍，能够发现这个村子除了美丽的夕阳，还有很多需要保护的传统小巷、老屋。这也是一种向当地村长和村民致敬的方式，感谢他们促成这个当代艺术节在海晏村顺利举办。在头盔里种花，当然可以被理解为是要求停止使用你的头盔，也就是停止燃烧化石能源。但没有什么是那么简单的，感谢艺术，让我们能够诗意地提出问题。因此，也向一路狂奔到此迎接海边落日的摩托骑士们，献上我们的 “飞行花园”。
We designed a sculpture using motorcycle helmets as flower pots.We chose the small courtyard of the village head's mother's house to build our garden.It is not far from the "Internet celebrity check-in point" to watch the sunset. We hope that visitors will be interested in entering this strange little garden, take selfies detour and discover that the village has many traditional alleys and old houses that need to be protected in addition to the beautiful sunset. It is also a way to pay tribute to the local village head and villagers for making this contemporary art festival successfully held in Haiyan Village. Planting flowers in your helmet, of course, can be interpreted as asking you to stop using your helmet, which means stopping burning fossil fuels. But nothing is that simple. Thanks to art, we can ask questions poetically. Therefore, we also dedicate our "flying garden" to the motorcyclists who rush all the way here to meet the sunset by the sea.
Paul Devautour is an artist and art teacher. He has been a professor at Villa Arson (Nice National Art School), director of Bourges National Art School, and head of the post-graduate program "The Invisible Collège" at Marseille Art School. From 2008 to 2023, he created and directed "offshore school" in Shanghai, an "art and globalization" research program at Nancy National Art School.
保罗-德沃图（Paul Devautour），法国艺术家，大学教授。他曾任法国尼斯国立高等艺术学校Villa Arson教授、法国布尔日国立高等艺术学院院长, 马赛艺术学院“隐形学院”研究生项目负责人。2008年至2023年，他在法国南锡国立高等艺术设计学院创建并主持上海“离岸学院”，一个“艺术与全球化”的研究项目。
夏意兰毕业于上海戏剧学院戏剧文学专业，并于巴黎高等文化艺术管理学院深造文化产业管理。曾先后就职于中法政府文化、旅游、教育等相关部门，现为上海得译文化艺术交流咨询有限公司负责人，致力于推动发展中法文化艺术交流工作。
Xia Yilan graduated from Shanghai Theatre Academy with a major in dramatic literature, and cultural management in IESA （Institut d'Études Supérieures des Arts ）in Paris. She has worked in the relevant departments of Chinese and French governments in culture, tourism, education and other fields. She is now the head of Shanghai DeYi Culture and Art Communication Consulting Co., Ltd., committed to promoting the development of Sino-French cultural and art exchanges.
得译工作室由夏意兰女士和保罗-德沃图（Paul DEVAUTOUR）先生2008年在上海一起创立。旨在立足上海，作为文化推手不定期组织各种文化讨论及艺术活动。探索当代艺术“兼容”的概念，以及今日艺术在非展示状态下进行的可能性。
DeYi Studio was founded by Ms. Xia Yilan and Mr. Paul DEVAUTOUR in Shanghai in 2008. It aims to organize various cultural discussions and art activities as a cultural operator based in Shanghai. It explores the concept of "compatibility" in contemporary art and the possibility of art in a non-exhibition state today.
