
《解谜》
杰克·鲍尔
2026年5月22日 – 7月17日
游廊画廊荣幸呈现艺术家杰克·鲍尔(Jack Ball)的个人项目《解谜》(MYSTERY SOLVED)。此次展览将展出一场融合摄影、雕塑与视频的大型装置,构建出错综复杂的图像网络。艺术家通过拼贴和抽象的形式,以变幻的视线和充满趣味的视觉语言,就公众视线、媒体表述中的局限性叙事,以及塑造我们行动轨迹的建筑与基础设施,展开了一场无限对话。
此次展览的作品源于和澳大利亚酷儿档案馆(Australian Queer Archives (AQuA))所藏历史资料的持续对话,这些资料记录了跨性别者及性别多元群体的生命轨迹。近期,我被1960年代至1980年代的报纸剪报所吸引,这些剪报主要来自默多克旗下的出版物。在这些报道中,我们的身体被顺性别者物化、审视并受到不恰当的质疑。欺诈、隐秘与真相的主题贯穿始终。这些历史主题令人熟悉,因为反跨性别言论会周期性地卷土重来,被利用来制造分心与分裂。尽管我们的身体、欲望和关系显然受到压制,但在社区创建的档案材料中仍可见抵抗的痕迹,这些材料记录了社会运动、日常生活与人际联结。
空间内充满了表演性的路障与绊脚物。图像借鉴了机场跑道、防落石网、拱门、通风口和闸门等元素。建筑和基础设施的形式具有阻隔、约束和强制秩序的功能,塑造了我们穿行于空间的方式。展览以戏谑的方式,将这些看似晦涩且永恒的形态,重构为一种具身化、多孔且混沌的编织结构。
重复、叠加与运动映射出媒体传播本身的状态——图像在此不断被重新构图与置入新语境。展览中的物质参照既传递出滑腻与粗粝,也折射出消费与建构。鱼鳞、防水布、潮线以及被海浪侵蚀的金属等意象在空间中被拼贴呈现。色彩在这里变得浓烈起来——令人作呕、酸涩且人造感十足。
这些图像的集合是通过一种“阅读障碍式”的逻辑方式构建而成的,这是一种模糊不清的语法体系,在其中,图像受到质地、感觉以及黏稠、汗津津的情感的引导。尽管受到澳大利亚酷儿档案馆(AQuA)所收藏的历史媒介视觉语言的启发,但文字的引用却是松散且可变的。阅读障碍症,就像性取向一样,让词语、图像和想法不断流动、变形,并且始终处于待质疑的状态。
难以辨识虽可能充满风险,但也可以成为一种拒绝明确解释的策略。这件为画廊24 小时开放的玻璃立面设计的装置,将视线转向其展示的条件。玻璃既作为画框又作为屏障,在塑造可见之物的同时,也隐匿了某些事物。

Jack Ball with Heavy Grit in Ramsay Art Prize 2025, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide; photo: Saul Steed
About The Artist
Jack Ball works with photography, collage, and casting to create large scale sculptural installations that explore flexi and fluid materiality. Their work draws connections between geological, socio-historical, and bodily archives. Over the past few years they have engaged with community archives to explore trans histories through abstraction and sensory connections.
Ball was the 2025 recipient of the Ramsay Art Prize presented at the Art Gallery of South Australia. Key solo exhibitions include Heavy Grit, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art (2024); Wind Chill, Art Gallery of Western Australia (2021); and Tight Crop at Sydenham International, Sydney (2023), which led to a photo book publication with Heart of Hearts.
Their work has been shown in group exhibitions including Museum of Australian Photography, Melbourne (2024); Artspace, Sydney (2021); Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, Perth (2017); Art Gallery of New South Wales (2016); Queensland Centre for Photography (2014); and the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney (2013). They were part of Artspace One Year Studio Program, Sydney (2024). Ball’s work is held in the collections of the Art Gallery of New South Wales; Art Gallery of South Australia; Art Gallery of Western Australia; and University of Western Australia. Ball holds a PhD from Curtin University (2021). They are represented by AVA Gallery.
