由全艺社举办之「不朽」－郭倩齐摄影展将於本年四月一日至五月十五日於全艺社展览厅举行。「不朽」系列由二十张与主题互相呼应的相片组成，充分反映了作者的艺术才能、认知和技巧。

「不朽」是一组动物标本和枯花系列作品，属另类的后观念艺术作品。相片主要以塑胶「猴哥」(Holga)相机和经典的哈色勃莱德(Hasselblad )相机拍摄而成，像真度极高，具有强烈的视觉和合成效果。拒絶以今日流行的数码相机镜头捕捉影像，作者透过作品表达了一种反传统的独特风格。

由相机镜头造成的含糊深度和高质素影像的对比度，比喻成我们日常面对生死时的脆弱和不安感。作者透过大量的特别拍摄技巧和高层次的表达手法，大大地提高了作品的整体效果、内容和联繫。个人智慧往往与我们的喜恶有关，但在艺术层面上说，它却能推动艺术家创作一种独特的体验。

或者动物与花卉本来就没有「自由」，而这个「实验测试」亦并非来自简单的细心观察，它包含了一个丰富的含义。在现实中，动物和花朵的「不朽」，就像一个陷阱，被喻為「美」的象徵。艺术创作及其意义的不断詮释和重新詮释从不休止；这个充满诗意的观点，就是以生和死这个复杂的密码和比喻作為主题。然而，我们的质疑，价值观和对生死的看法，也就是作品欲暗示和表达的「分离」。

「不朽」是本土艺术家郭倩齐於澳门的首个个展，展品内容连贯一致。郭倩齐生於澳门，接受美国教育，现於英国工作。她欲表达的是一种偽装和支配的艺术，透过一个鱷鱼标本和一棵凋谢的水莲花，与我们作出思想交流之餘，同时显示了其在个人实践和兴趣方面的认真和认知。「不朽」予人的印象往往是后话，也许直到那一道光芒闪过的瞬间，它的形象才会被看见。

是次展览将於四月一日(星期五)下午六时叁十分於全艺社开幕。全艺社位於澳门啤利喇街45至49号联兴针织厂叁楼。展期至五月十五日，开於时间為每日上午十时至晚上七时。

“Immortality”, photography by Carol Kwok, organized by Art For All Society (AFA), will run from April 1 to May 15, 2011 at AFA showroom. A group of 20 photographs, which are very coherent display of artistry, knowledge and technique, will showcase during the exhibition.

“Immortality”, presented as a collection of taxidermic mountings and decaying flowers portraits, is a maverick post-conceptualist body of work. These strong images, despite their life-like results, have a synthetic flavor. A ‘seasoning’ that is mainly provided by the use of the plastic Holga and classy Hasselblad photographic cameras. The objective refusal on obtaining images through digital camera lens, most popular in our days, shows how nonconformist these depictions are and how unique they turn out to be.

The ambiguities of depth, created by the camera lens and the contrasting high quality of the prints, have a strong relationship with the fragility and precariousness of position found in the way we deal with the idea of mortality and immortality in daily life. This lavish artistic gesture of using an unusual method of capturing images along with an elevated presentation maximizes the overall effect, adding substance, as well as intimacy. There’s a personal wisdom that has much to do with the qualities that we find desirable, or undesirable, in a work of art, in the sense that is able to create an experience of its own.

Perhaps animals and flowers are never ‘free’ and this ‘lab test’ is not derived from a simple circumstantial observation and reveals a wealth of meanings. In reality the animals and flowers in “Immortality” seem to be booby-trapped, framed as objects of ‘beauty’. The aspect of the artistic endeavor and the importance of constant interpretation and re-interpretation, for meaning, are never static, and these are poetic views that use the subjects as cryptograms as much as metaphors for the composite issue of life and death. As thoughts of questioning, of placing ideas, of what is mortal and immortal spring to mind, however, so do the departure that they imply.

“Immortality” is a startlingly consistent first solo exhibition of an artist born in Macau, educated in USA and worked in UK. It’s an art of disguises and maneuver, where a stuffed crocodile share our mind space with a decaying water lotus, which shows a precise and conscious style in a specific practice and interest. Always a delayed addition the impression of “Immortality” is difficult to see until a sudden flash of light obscures what was not visible before.

The opening of this exhibition will take place at 6:30pm on Friday, 1 of April at AFA Macau, which located on Rua. Francisco X. Pereira No.45-49. FL-3, Ed. Lun Hing Knitting Factory, Macau. The exhibition period will last till 15 of May and the opening hours are from 10 am to 7 pm every day.