Agatha Ma

《记忆》Memories 2022
《环》Rings 2019

生活中最大的错觉是时间是有序的。我们把小时、分钟和秒放进钟表的刻度中,通过我们居住星球的旋转将白天与夜晚分开。时区、经度、太阳历和阴历——这些只是构造,是人类试图捕捉时间的努力。

确实,降生于世就像是跳入海洋。以我们为中心,时间像波浪一样向外辐射。当我们审视“记忆”时,会发现生活以两种形式存在:碎片,以及看似坚固却实际上是碎片化的东西。“环”描绘了这些围绕我们的碎片,像土星的尘埃和冰环一样不断变化。“葬礼”捕捉了我祖父去世之夜的场景,几年后,这一场景比昨天的事情更加鲜明——更清晰、更真实、更冷。一些碎片更为尖锐,穿透了有序时间的表象,重新进入我们的视野,迫使我们更长时间地凝视这些神秘的瞬间。

The greatest illusion of life is that time is orderly. We place hours, minutes, and seconds into the scales of clocks, dividing day from night by the rotation of our dwelling planet. Time zones, longitudes, solar and lunar calendars—these are mere constructs, human attempts to capture time.

The greatest illusion of life is that time is orderly. We place hours, minutes, and seconds into the scales of clocks, dividing day from night by the rotation of our dwelling planet. Time zones, longitudes, solar and lunar calendars—these are mere constructs, human attempts to capture time.

Indeed, being born into the world is like plunging into the ocean. With us at the center, time radiates outward like waves dispersing. Upon examining “MEMORIES,” we find life exists in two forms: fragments, and what seems solid yet is actually fragmented. “RINGS” depict these fragments encircling us, ever-changing like Saturn’s rings of dust and ice. “FUNERAL” captures the night of my grandfather’s death, a scene that, years later, emerges more vividly than yesterday’s events—clearer, truer, colder. Some fragments are sharper, piercing through the facade of orderly time to re-enter our view, compelling us to gaze longer at these mysterious moments.

Agatha Ma是一位出生于中国的女性摄影师。多年来,她专注于以摄影的形式记录人们和生活的细节。她毕业于南洋理工大学,获得信息工程与媒体学位。毕业后,她决心逐渐将这些细节公之于众,并以艺术家的形式发展这些细节。她的作品侧重于细微的细节以及人与人、人与物之间的关系和痕迹。

Agatha Ma is a female photographer born in China. Over the years, she has specialised in documenting the details of people and life in the form of photography. After graduating from Nanyang Technological University with a degree in Information Engineering and Media, she was determined to gradually make these details public and develop them as and in the form of an artist. Her work focuses on minute details and the relationships and traces between people and people, people and artefacts.