異色眾生 Variety of Beings
2024.12.28 – 2025.02.09
開幕： 2025年1月5日，星期日，16:30
藝術家分享會： 2025年1月5日，星期日，14:30
藝術家導賞：2025年1月18日，星期六，16:00
藝術家：羅雪寶
地點：光影作坊｜九龍石硤尾白田街30號賽馬會創意藝術中心L2-02
開放時間：星期二至日 11:00-13:00, 14:00-18:00，逢星期一休館（公眾假期除外）
展覽簡介
異色眾生 Variety of Beings
作為一個異性戀常態同時獲得精神病診斷的殘疾女性，羅雪寶進入跨性別群體並策劃了一項攝影企劃，運用攝影與跨性別群體建立聯繫，學習 ta 們的知識與文化。透過攝影與訪問，她記錄了跨性別人士的生命旅程。企劃期間，羅氏以攝影作為方法，深入探討跨性別人士面對二元性別廁所的困擾、ta 們個人的身體抉擇和性別表達形式、身份政治的參與，以及邊緣群體中的年輕人在社會污名化影響下，自殺問題日益嚴重。
跨性別者的性別不安不能等同精神病，但跨性別者所承受的精神壓力，的確需要社會的理解和正視。
這一系列相片不僅記錄了跨性別群體的文化表現方式和僵化的二元社會系統，也交織了羅氏自身因獲得精神病診斷而遭受污名化的個人靈性經歷。羅氏獨自一人所感受到的異域空間或許無法得到現世的證明；然而，誰又可以斷然否定世間千萬生命體的無數可能性呢？
人世間，生命本就多元多樣。鏡頭內外，誰能真正稱得上「正常」？
As a heteronormative woman with a disability who has also been diagnosed with a mental illness, Kathleen Lo embarked on a photography project within the transgender community. She established connections with the transgender community through photography, learning about their knowledge and culture. She documented the life journeys of transgender individuals through both photography and interviews. Using photography as her methodology, Kathleen delved deeply into the challenges trans-gender individuals face with binary gendered restrooms, their personal bodily choices and gender expressions, their participation in identity politics, and the increasing issue of suicide among young people in marginalized communities under social stigma.
Transgender gender dysphoria cannot be equal to mental illness, but the mental stress that transgender people has been shouldering definitely needs the society’s understanding and attention.
This series of photographs not only captures the cultural expressions of the trans-gender community and the rigid binary social system, but also intertwines with Kathleen’s personal spiritual experiences that contributed to her own mental illness diagnosis stigma. The foreign spaces she experienced alone may never be validated in this world; yet, who can definitively deny the countless possibilities among millions of living beings?
In this world, life is inherently diverse and varied. Inside and outside the lens, who
can truly be deemed “normal”?
關於藝術家
羅雪寶
自2020年，羅雪寶自學攝影，此後一直運用攝影作為探討邊緣社群知識文化的工具。其作品涵蓋攝影、詩歌、寫作、實驗音樂和影片。2023年，發起為期兩年的「異色眾生」藝術出版項目，成功訪問了香港20位跨性別者，並為他們拍攝肖像。她的作品獲選入圍「藝無疆2024：新晉展能藝術家視覺藝術比賽」及「吉隆坡國際攝影獎2024」。
Self-baked photographer since 2020, Kathleen has been using photography as a tool to explore cultural knowledge of marginalised communities. Artworks include photography, poetry, writings, experimental music and videos. Initiated the two-year art publication project “Variety of Beings” in 2023 and successfully executed interviews and portrait photo shootings for 20 Transgender people in Hong Kong. Her work has been shortlisted in Cross All Borders 2024 : Hong Kong Competition Showcasing New Visual Artist with Disabilities and selected as finalist for Kuala Lumpur International Photo Awards 2024.
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本計劃由香港藝術發展局資助
Supported by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council