沈少民
《退出市场的魚》
2026年1月23日至2月20日
游廊画廊很高兴地呈现艺术家沈少民的系列作品《退出市场的魚》（Withdrawn from the fish market），展览将于2026年1月23日展至2月20日。
鲤鱼是一种在不同文化中承载着丰富意涵的生物。在沈少民的家乡中国，鲤鱼被尊为国鱼，是富足、繁荣与健康的象征。然而在澳大利亚，这种鱼却远没有那么受人爱戴。数十年前，出于改善河流水质的误判，将中国鲤鱼引入包括澳大利亚在内的多个国家；与此同时，为让来自欧亚的移民重温故土风光，鲤鱼还被赋予多重功能：是池塘里的怀旧装饰，是垂钓运动的对象，又作为食物来源。
然而，由于极强的适应能力和惊人的繁殖力，鲤鱼种群很快呈爆发式增长，给河流生态系统——尤其是墨累-达令流域（Murray–Darling Basin）——带来了毁灭性的打击。它们的泛滥引发了一系列耗资巨大，但往往徒劳无功的清除计划。其中一个方式是给鲤鱼植入微芯片，并悬赏捉拿，试图以人为干预去管控一股早已失控的自然力量。
这种奇特的干预逻辑启发了艺术家持续多年机械鲤鱼系列作品的创作。该作品由工作室团队批量制作，每一条鲤鱼都被高度写实地手工上色，装配晶莹的玻璃眼睛，并通过内部微型机械装置模拟呼吸。如真实的鲤鱼一样，艺术家所创作的鲤鱼不断迁徙繁衍，渗透进新的环境，出现在世界各地的画廊、美术馆和艺术博览会中。该作品与悉尼鱼市场的新址空间产生关联，在画廊空间被重新构筑。
鲤鱼以“吸尘式”的进食方式不断搅动河床和湖底沉积物，加剧水体浑浊，减弱了阳光的穿透水层的能力。擅长营造神秘氛围与诗性隐喻的艺术家，将这种对环境的扰动，比作移民群体融入新环境的过程：他们以既具创造性又具破坏性的方式重塑着所在之地。该装置亦映照着鱼市自身的转型，当它迁入全新的建筑与商业语境时，一场由资本与劳动力驱动的全新“进食狂潮”随之展开。
如同其所指涉的物种，这件作品近乎“寄生” 在栖居的每个新场所汲取养分，同时催生出新的意义。在此次展览中，当鲤鱼与最终成为罐头食品的结局并置呈现时，它作为沉睡的隐喻从零售现场中被再度唤醒。此次展览邀请我们思考变革是如何蔓延的：一个决定、一个物种或一个结构如何像涟漪般向外扩散，以一种难以预测且绝非中立的方式重塑整个系统。
About The Artist
Shen Shaomin was born in 1956 in Heilongjiang Province, China and initially was acclaimed for his woodblock prints, a technique he had learned outside the formal art academy system. During the 1980s he went to Beijing and became part of the experimental avant-garde. In 1989 he became part of an artistic diaspora who left China and dispersed across the globe: Shen came to Australia where he lived and worked until returning to China in 2001, motivated by the excitement of a growing contemporary art scene and by the availability of materials and labour for his transgressive and ambitious multimedia works. He created a series of still and kinetic sculptures using bonemeal and animal bones sourced from slaughterhouses that question advances in science, biotechnology and genetic engineering.
In 2012, aiming to further develop the cultural relationship between China and Australia he established a residency program in his studio complex outside Beijing, in conjunction with Sydney’s 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art. Shen Shaomin works across media and forms, from sculpture to painting, from video and installation to performance art. He intends to conclude his ‘bone’ series with an installation made with his own bones after his death.