#take me somewhere nice

「六歲時我與父母到海邊出遊，我獨自在沙灘上堆沙，父母親坐在我正後方的長椅上休息，十五分鐘後我回過頭去，我的父母、包括海灘上的整排長椅，一切都消失了。這段離奇而無從考究的記憶，因此串連了一些平行的想像。」

以兒時在海灘時空轉換之經驗展開，透過當時事件據點的重組與想像，將個人經驗、意識上的斷裂轉化成「夢」與「現實」之間移動的過程。當世界的運作方式逐漸改變，並建立了不同的觀看方式與經驗認知時，今日的我們究竟身處想像的真實，亦或現實的真實？當物質介面改變了，「在場」與「不在場」是否存有差異性？而時間所累積的記憶，最終是否只是一場虛空？

本書為王湘靈2020年於台北市立美術館所舉行的「快要降落的時候 Take Me Somewhere Nice」個展專刊，其中收錄了展覽影像作品，及藝術家於展覽期間在展場拍攝再製的影像。本書採套繩裝訂，折疊分為內外兩面，讓觀者在閱讀時除了左右翻，亦有正反、部分及全幅等不同的閱讀方式。

At the age of six, I went on a trip with my parents to a seashore. I piled up sands on the beach on my own as my parents sat and rest on a bench at my back. Fifteen minutes later, I turned back. My parents, the row of benches on the beach, and everything disappeared. Such strange memory with no reference thus strings up some parallel imaginations.

Unfolded with the experience of space-time conversion at the beach in the childhood, the fissures in the personal experience and in mind are transformed into the moving process between “dream” and “reality” via reconstruction and imagination of the places in the past events. As the world evolves and establishes different means to viewing and experience recognition, where are we exactly, the imagined reality or the realistic reality? In the event of a change in the material interface, is there a difference between “presence” and “absence”? Will the recollection accumulated in time end up a liquid dream eventually?

This album is the collection of Take Me Somewhere Nice, Hsiang-Lin Wang’s solo exhibition at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum in 2020, in which the exhibited image works as well as images recaptured and reproduced by the artist in the exhibition venue during the exhibition are collected. Take Me Somewhere Nice is a string-binding album that is folded and divided into two facets inside and outside, granting readers reading experiences not just turning leaves horizontally, but also reading invertedly, partially, and in full width.

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