当我开始创作这组作品时,我一直在思考教育的意义,并决定对大约30位我在飞机上、画廊里遇到的人,还有朋友的朋友进行非正式的访谈,了解他们的人生历程,以及对他们而言接受教育意味着什么。
As I started working on this series, I was thinking a lot about what education means and decided to conduct around 30 informal interviews asking people I met on the airplane, in galleries, and friends of friends about their paths and what it means to receive an education.
《肉类市场》摄影、文本 2019
The Meat Market, Photography with Text, 2019



生活中有很多灰色地带,由于我们都是人,所以我们必须接受模糊性。如果你看到黑色,则可以更清楚地明白什么是白色。如果你看到白色,则可以更清楚地了解什么是黑色。清晰了解对立面(例如颜色),会更容易地接受灰色。因此,这组摄影作品以爱的音符结尾,是包容和接纳,是灰色,是动作和文字,是负片和正片,是极为平常的。
If you have seen black, you can be clearer in your definition of white. If you have seen white, you can be clearer about what constitutes black. Clarity about opposites, like colors, makes it easier to accept the grey. Therefore, the photography series ends on the note of love, it is inclusive and acceptance, it is grey, it is the action and the words, it is the negatives and the positives, and it is extremely ordinary.



我叫Maggie,中文名温馨。曾在中国居住,小学时移居丹麦两年,然后在上大学之前又回到了中国。我毕业于宾夕法尼亚州的一所小型文科学院迪金森学院,主修工作室艺术,辅修艺术史和东亚研究。大学期间,我以工作假期签证在新西兰度过了一个学期。我的艺术关注人际关系和充满活力的人们,这些人在语言和行为上来自不同文化,拥有不同的社会理念。对我而言,艺术创作的目的是为拥有不同归属和经历的人创建一个平台,联系起来、分享爱心并相信我们在一起。摄影和简短采访是我通常使用的媒介。这样,我可以对提出的主题进行研究,记录过程并收集适合展览的摄影作品。
My name is Xin (Maggie) Wen, and in Chinese it is 温馨. I have lived in China before moving to Denmark for 2 years during primary school, and then back to China afterward before college. I graduated in Pennsylvania from a small liberal arts college called Dickinson College majoring in Studio Art and two minors in Art History and East Asian Studies. I took a gap semester during my college years to New Zealand with a working holiday visa. My art focus on the relationship and dynamic people create with different kind of cultural or societal beliefs in both words and actions. My aim as I create art is to create a platform for people of different belongings and experiences to bond, share love, and trust that we are all one. Usually, my medium is photography along with a short interview. In this way, I am able to do research on the topic I initiated, document the process, and collect photography that suits the exhibition.