Portraits that transform people into whatever they want to be | Uldus Bakhtiozina

翻译人员: 校对人员: Yolanda Zhang

I'm often asked

我常被问起

why I do art,

为什么要从事艺术行业

我对于艺术摄影的观点

what do I want to say with my art photography,

and what is the use of it?

以及艺术摄影的用处

Once in a while I start to worry

我偶尔会担心

how to actually measure the impact from the art

如何实际地衡量艺术的影响力

like we do with medicine or technology,

正如我们衡量医疗以及科技一样

where we can see the results and calculate it.

那些结果显而易见 可以衡量

Then I would finally be able to explain to my mother my art

那么我就可以向我的母亲用实际的

with real numbers.

数字来表达艺术

But my art is so far from metrics,

但是我的艺术难以度量

and moreover, my photography is widely exposing the theme of escapism.

而且我的摄影多是 以逃避现实为主题

My theory is that all of us

我的观点是

我们所有人有时会努力逃避

struggle sometimes to escape

in order to analyze our reality,

为了更好地分析现实

appreciate it or change.

欣赏它或是改变它

I don't work with daily life as it is,

我不描绘日常生活本来的样子

and I'm not a documentary photographer

我不是通常意义上的

in the common sense.

纪实摄影师

But I am a documentary photographer

但从另一种意义上来说我确实是

in a different sense.

一个纪实摄影师

I document dreams.

我记录梦想

I work with daily life as it could be,

我描绘日常生活的无尽可能

as I imagine it.

如我所想

I am a daydreamer, but at the same time I love things that are authentic

我喜欢做白日梦 但同时我也喜欢真实的事物

and deal with our innermost nature,

并和我们内心最深处的天性交流

which I would never want to escape from.

我永远不想逃避内心最深处的想法

I adore complicated personalities,

我欣赏复杂的性格

and real life inspires me to create my images.

现实生活会启发我创造作品

Real life inspires our escape,

现实生活鼓励我们去逃避

and sometimes that escape is very needed.

有时那些逃避很重要

I believe heroes are not created easily,

我认为英雄的养成绝非易事

and I choose to work with individuals

我选择和个人合作

who are survivors

那些幸存者

and facing everyday routines

面对着日常工作

that are not always full of color,

并不丰富多彩的工作

people who are on their way to a better life,

那些追求更好生活的人

fighting against life circumstances.

与现实生活斗争的人

Why do I choose people like that for my models?

为什么我选这些人做我的模特呢

Because I've been in that position myself,

因为我原来也是这些人中的一员

when I had to learn how to survive in real life.

我不得不学会 如何在现实生活中生存下来

I was a student living abroad in London.

我是一个在伦敦生活的留学生

I was working at two places at the same time as a waitress.

我同时在两个地方当服务员

Obviously that wasn't my dream job,

显然 那不是我的理想工作

but I decided to play a game

于是我决定玩一个游戏

where I imagined that I am taking a role in a film,

在游戏里我想象自己在演一个电影

and in the film I am a waitress,

我在电影中是一个服务员

and I need to act great.

我需要演得很棒

I used to dye my hair and brows to gingerette,

我曾经把头发和眉毛染黄

I changed my hair to curly perm,

把头发烫卷

I lost weight

减肥

and made myself believe

使我自己相信

I am just a character acting in a film.

我只是在演电影中的一个角色

That isn't forever,

不是永久性的扮演

that is all just temporary.

只是暂时的

That helped me a lot.

这在很大程度上帮助了我

It motivated me to change my life

它鼓舞我去改变生活

and take a hard time as a game.

像做游戏一样 度过了一段艰难的时光

Now, as an artist,

如今 作为一个艺术家

I am creating different lives for my models

我为我的模特创造不同的生活

in order to give them the experience of being someone else in reality.

为了让他们体验 他人在现实中的生活

Through the photographic process,

经过摄影过程

all of my models become like silent movie actors.

我的所有模特都好像变成了默剧演员

They are captured at the moment

把那些当他们相信自己

when they believe in being someone else entirely.

完全是另一个人的瞬间被捕捉下来

In order to create a new reality in its entirety,

为了创造一个全新的实体

I physically create every single thing in my work,

我工作中的所有东西都是我亲手做的

sometimes from outfits to the stage.

有时是外套 有时是舞台

Because I work with analogues,

由于我和志同道合的人一起工作

and I don't make any digital manipulations to my photographs,

我也从来不用数码设备 处理我的照片

I need everything to take place in reality,

我需要所有的东西都来源于现实

in spite of the fact that nowadays,

尽管如今社会

digitally, you can create pretty much everything.

通过数码设施可以创造很多东西

I don't like this path.

但是我不喜欢这种方式

Even if that reaches perfection,

即使那种方式近乎完美

I see the beauty in authenticity of making,

我仍然青睐真实制作的美

and that's impossible without flaws.

要达到无瑕是不可能的

A digitally manipulated photograph

一张经过数码处理过的照片

is not true for me.

对我而言是不真实的

It doesn't capture anything real.

它没有捕捉到任何真实的东西

It's not experienced, not motivating.

它既无内涵也不鼓舞人心

It's like, instead of going traveling,

就好像你不去旅行

you look at someone else's travel photographs.

而只是看看别人去旅行拍的照片一样

What I find so exciting

我觉得令人激动的

is the ability to make people's dreams of being someone else a reality.

是这种可以使他人梦想成真的能力

That's like a drug

就好像毒品一样

which pushes me to keep working,

激励我不停工作

even without metrics.

即使无法度量成就

One of my models

我的一个模特

had always dreamed of being seen as a warrior,

一直想以战士的形象示人

but she wasn't able to do sports because of her health problems.

但是她由于健康问题不能运动

Half a year ago, she passed away

半年前 22岁的她

from heart disease at the age of 22.

由于心脏病去世了

But two days before her death,

但是在她去世前的两天

the images we spent months working on together

我们合作了几个月的图片

of her as a warrior she dreamed of becoming

主题是她梦寐以求的战士

were published at a large exhibition in Milan by Vogue Magazine.

在米兰的一个大型展会上 由Vogue杂志展出

All her life was about overcoming.

她的一生都在克服困难

Before she died, she had known

她去世之前

她知道有数千人看到了她避世的照片

that thousands of people saw her image from the land of escapism

and believed in her as a brave and fearless warrior.

并相信她是一个勇敢无畏的战士

For my work, I invite people to play a game

我的工作是邀请人们来玩这个游戏

like we all used to as children

就像我们孩提时候一样

when we pretend to be someone else

我们假装自己是别人

and that process made us really happy.

这个过程让我们感到真正的开心

To my mind it is important for grown-ups.

我觉得这对成年人同样重要

We need these transformations

我们需要这些改变

to enact this in the name of art.

以艺术的名义来饰演这些角色

It gives us the very real feeling of being important and powerful

它给我们一种 十分重要而强大的真实体验

in order to influence our reality.

来改变现实

I know this from my own personal experience.

我是从自身经历中了解到这些的

I have had so many versions of myself

我是一个多面体

through my self-portraits

通过我的自画像

that I've been many different characters.

我饰演过许多不同的角色

Being someone else in the land of escapism

在逃避现实的世界扮演他人

doesn't exactly give us numbers that we can gauge,

不能给我们可以测量的数据

but it's like a real lost form of magic

但这就像失传的魔法

which exists but can't be measured.

存在但无法被衡量

There is a unique power in art

艺术有独特的魅力

to transform and lift our limits.

能改变并提升我们的极限

Art creates what I call a conjured life,

艺术创造了我称之为被召唤的生活

which helps our existence

帮我们生存

and pushes, motivates and inspires us to dwell

督促和鼓励我们更好地生活

and express ourselves

表达自己

without metrics or calculations.

即使无法度量和计算

Thank you.

谢谢

(Applause)

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