本次展出的作品由2018年底執行至今,以臺北市七星山為軸心,外延展的創作計畫,所作的階段性呈現。計畫源於藝術家與朋友至七星山找尋傳說的「金字塔」(凱達格蘭山),多次走踏、尋找與迷路的經歷,所逐漸勾連出對於地方的想像。而真正促使計畫的展開,是在實地探訪過程裡,發現傳說的金字塔可能只是一座山丘,引發自身在觀看上的認知與詮釋之間所存在的落差與疑惑,這反而使藝術家產生極高的興趣。因而進行地方研究、資料搜集與田野調查。原先以為在經過調查與研究後,能明確描繪出地方歷史的輪廓。然而龐大的資料卻是讓藝術家深陷迷霧中,也逐漸無法理性分辨什麼是真實的狀態。因此,回溯整理此次創作的脈絡,或許藝術家要傳達的訊息並非是如何分辨真實,不是去探究真實性,「凱達格蘭山」到底是否真的是金字塔,或許已經不在如此的重要。對藝術家而言更重要的是,要如何撿拾這些被歷史洪流刪除的零落片段,擁有再討論的空間。
This project started from 2018 until now, it is a periodic presentation of the project that begins from the Mt. Qixing. It comes from Mao’s experience of searching for a pyramid on Mt. Qixing(Mt. Ketagalan) with friends. The experience of visiting, searching and getting lost brings up the artist's imagination to this place. But what really initiated this project is that when he found out that the so-called pyramid is probably just a hill, the gap and confusion between perception and interpretation during observation fascinated him. So Mao started to research, collecting information and field study. At first, Mao thought he could paint a clear picture of the silhouette of the local history by researching, but he ended up getting lost in the enormous amount of data. And gradually, he can’t rationally distinguish reality. So looking back at the progress of this project, maybe the message Mao wants to send is not about the authenticity, it’s not important anymore if there are pyramids on Mt. Ketagalan or not, for him, more importantly, is how to collect all the fragments of history and create a space to reopen the conversation.