展览日期：2024年11月6日-2025年4月27日

展览地点：H18，当代艺术展厅

平面与展陈设计：协调亚洲

作曲与音效设计：娜塔莎·杜布勒

视频编辑：黄淑安

投影技术顾问：illuminart

支持单位：上海对外文化交流协会

特别致谢：该项目得到了Creative Australia——澳大利亚政府艺术资助机构和新南威尔士州政府通过 CreateNSW 和 InnerWest 委员会的支持。

Venue: H18, Contemporary Exhibition Hall

Graphic and Exhibition Design: Coordination Asia

Composition and Sound Design: Natasha Dubler

Video Editor: Su-An Ng

Projection Mapping Consultants: illuminart

Support Organization: Shanghai International Culture Association

Acknowledgements:

This project is proudly supported by Creative Australia – the Australian Government Arts Funding Body and by the NSW Government through CreateNSW and InnerWest Council.

《曲径幽知：凯特·贝克个展》不仅是贝克在中国的首次展出，亦是她三件沉浸式装置作品的全球首发。展览通过体量庞大的作品探讨个人与集体在面对复杂和不可控的现实时的情感冲突与潜藏力量，旨在引导观众反思那些超越简单认知的存在。贝克的作品结合影像、声音与玻璃的跨媒材设计，以打破传统的媒材界限，创造了一个触及“难解的知识”核心的沉浸式空间。

作品《小鱼》聚焦儿童在当代社会环境与历史遗产交织中的命运，通过象征性的镜头语言展现了他们在成人期望、传统负担和未来挑战中的微妙处境。作品《向鲍什致敬》关注女性在情感关系中的地位，以流动的情感和肢体语言表现出女性在亲密关系中复杂的力量与不平等，探讨了女性在关系中的挣扎和妥协，及其在权力与依附之间的微妙平衡，揭示了女性在情感纽带中的潜在力量与隐形束缚。在作品《焦虑的肖像》中，贝克将四位表演者置于风、土、火、水四大基本元素之中，象征性地演绎出不同的“焦虑”状态。作品不仅关注个体的焦虑情绪，也揭示了自然环境对人类内心产生的不可抗力影响。贝克提示观众焦虑不仅是个人的情绪体验，更是人类共同面对的深层情绪波动。

此外，贝克的代表作《物质之间#3》也将展出。该系列作品探索了人类身体边界的模糊性，激发观众思考物质与非物质的微妙关联。这一作品系列作为贝克后续创作的前奏，进一步探索了“影像-光”的概念。通过玻璃与影像的创新性互动，将捕捉光线的瞬间延展为一个“激活的环境”，使观众的体验从视觉深化为时间与空间的融合，赋予影像多维度的感知体验。

在展览现场，观众可穿行于贝克的装置之中，感受其中超越语言的情绪层次。这些沉浸式装置不仅引导观众直面人类对不安现实的多样应对方式，更为复杂的跨时空对话提供了可能性。

本展览亦得到上海市对外文化交流协会的大力支持。

Jointly organized by the Shanghai Museum of Glass and Australian artist Kate Baker, Difficult Knowledge debuts after more than five years of dedicated preparation. This exhibition marks Baker’s first solo presentation in China, featuring the global premieres of three large-scale immersive installations. Through these expansive works, Baker explores the emotional conflicts and latent strengths within individuals and collectives when confronting complex, uncontrollable realities, inviting visitors to reflect on forces beyond mere understanding.

The work Little Fish focuses on the fate of children in a world where societal expectations, cultural legacies, and environmental challenges intersect. Through a symbolic lens, it unveils the nuanced position of children, who carry both adult aspirations and historical burdens while navigating an uncertain future. In Homage to Bausch, Baker examines women’s roles in intimate relationships, drawing on emotional expression and movement to highlight the tension between power and inequality. This work honors German choreographer Pina Bausch by delving into women’s struggles, compromises, and the subtle balance between autonomy and dependency, revealing hidden strengths and limitations within emotional bonds. In Portraits of Anxiety, four performers embody “states of anxiety” amid elemental forces of wind, earth, fire, and water, symbolizing anxiety’s various dimensions. Here, Baker explores both personal and collective anxieties, capturing the inexorable impacts of the natural world on the human psyche. She suggests that anxiety is not solely an individual experience but a shared response to the uncertainties we all face.

Additionally, Baker’s notable work, Between Matters #3, is featured in this exhibition. This series examines the blurred boundaries of the human body, prompting visitors to contemplate the tenuous connection between material and immaterial forms. Serving as a prelude to her latest creations, it further delves into the concept of “image-light.” By ingeniously intertwining glass and imagery, Baker transforms moments of captured light into an “activated environment,” allowing viewers to experience images beyond the visual, in a synthesis of time and space, granting them a multi-dimensional presence.

凯特·贝克是一位当代澳大利亚艺术家，她的工作室研究和实践将摄影、印刷和动态影像技术与玻璃工艺相结合。作为澳大利亚国立大学艺术与设计学院的博士候选人，贝克的研究探索了数字图像如何通过玻璃的物质性转化为被激活的对象和环境的新方式。

贝克的作品在国内外广泛展出，包括华盛顿特区的史密森尼美国艺术博物馆、纽约的康宁玻璃博物馆、日本的富山玻璃博物馆、加利福尼亚的棕榈泉艺术博物馆、圣菲的新墨西哥艺术博物馆以及意大利威尼斯的玻璃双年展。贝克曾多次获得国家和国际艺术奖项、奖学金和资助，是多项艺术奖项的入围者和获奖者，她的艺术作品在全球的博物馆中展出

Kate Baker is a contemporary Australian artist whose studio-based research and practice merges photo, print and moving image technologies with studio glass. A PhD Candidate at the Australian National University School of Art and Design, Baker’s research explores new ways digital imagery can be realized as activated objects and environments, through the materiality of glass.

Baker’s work has been widely exhibited both nationally and internationally including at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC, the Corning Museum of Glass, New York, the Toyama Museum of Glass, Japan, the Palm Springs Art Museum, California, the New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe and the Glass Biennale, Venice, Italy. Both a finalist and winner of national and international art prizes, scholarships and grants, her artworks are featured in museums globally.