在所见与所知之间

Between What We See and What We Know

日期: 30.09.2026
地点: 中国景德镇

展览介绍 / 中文

我们常常以为，知道先于看见。但更多时候恰好相反：我们先被一束光、一段距离、一个人的停留吸引，过后才慢慢明白，自己究竟看见了什么。

这次展览无法站在一个位置读完。观众需要靠近、后退、转身、上楼，穿过门窗，绕过柱子与墙面的转角。观看不只发生在照片内部，也发生在身体穿过空间的途中。

这些照片来自道路、街道、房间、亲近的人，以及一些后来已经很难说清的时刻。拍下它们的时候，我们未必知道自己为什么举起相机。在语言出现以前，画面已经先一步留了下来。

九位摄影师大多处在读书、毕业、工作或准备前往下一个阶段的途中。摄影不是生活之外的另一件事，而是在旅途、关系与日常的不确定中慢慢发生的。我们一边生活，一边拍照，又在回头整理时，认出那些当时没有意识到的线索。

这些作品来自不同的时间和个人经验，也并非围绕同一个主题拍摄。这一次，我们暂时放下原有的作者顺序，用照片的大小、间距、疏密和位置，重新建立它们之间的关系。排版不再只是展示照片的方式，也成为另一种观看。

一张原本沉默的照片，会因为另一张照片的靠近而产生回声；两个互不相关的场景，也可能在并置之后彼此补充、打断，改变原来的方向。于是，一条公路与一个陌生人的房间相遇，一片阴影落在某段关系之后，一道背影唤起一段并不属于他的记忆。照片没有改变，目光却重新安排了它们的位置。

摄影无法完整保存生活。它留下的只是其中很小的一部分：一个动作、一段距离、一处被光照亮的表面。画面以外发生过什么，我们未必知道；画面以内所看见的，也不只有一种解释。所见与所知之间，始终留着一段无法填满的空隙。

人会离开，关系会变化，当时的情绪也会慢慢消失。但照片被留下，又在新的顺序里获得不同的意义。

这次展览不是为了寻找最后的答案，只是让这些照片暂时在这里相遇。

照片留在原地，观看也许在离开以后才真正开始。

Exhibition text / English

We often assume that knowing comes before seeing. More often, the opposite is true: we are first drawn to a shaft of light, a certain distance, or the pause of a person, and only later begin to understand what it was that we saw.

This exhibition cannot be taken in from a single position. Visitors need to move closer, step back, turn, climb the stairs, pass through doors and windows, and move around columns and the turns of the walls. Looking happens not only within the photographs, but also as the body moves through the space.

These photographs come from roads, streets, rooms, people close to us, and moments that later became difficult to explain. When they were made, we may not have known why we raised the camera. Before words could take shape, the image was already there.

The nine photographers are mostly at different points between studying, graduating, working, and preparing for whatever comes next. Photography is not something separate from life; it takes shape slowly amid journeys, relationships, and the uncertainties of the everyday. We live and photograph at the same time, recognising only in retrospect the clues we did not notice then.

These works come from different times and personal experiences, and they were not made around a shared theme. For this exhibition, we have temporarily set aside their original sequences, using scale, spacing, density, and placement to establish new relationships between them. The arrangement is more than a way of displaying photographs; it becomes another way of seeing.

A photograph that once seemed silent begins to echo when another is placed beside it. Two unrelated scenes may complement, interrupt, or redirect one another. A road meets a stranger’s room. A patch of shadow follows a relationship. A figure seen from behind summons a memory that does not belong to them. The photographs have not changed, but the gaze has rearranged their positions.

Photography cannot preserve life in full. It leaves only fragments: a gesture, a distance, a surface touched by light. We may never know what happened beyond the frame, and what we see within it does not belong to a single interpretation. Between what we see and what we know, there is always a gap that cannot be completely filled.

People leave, relationships change, and the emotions of a particular moment slowly fade. Yet photographs remain, taking on different meanings within a new sequence.

This exhibition does not seek a final answer. It simply allows these photographs to meet, briefly, in this place.

The photographs remain where they are. Perhaps looking truly begins only after we leave.