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这是来自于现居纽约，出身1973年的瑞典艺术家Simen Johan的系列作品—–国王到来之前：描绘了一个不安的，诡异的，幻象的不稳定自然世界。
Simen Johan将传统的摄影和雕塑，以及数字化处理手段结合起来，造就了这些作品。他到自然保护区，动物园，农场进行广泛取景，
然后回自己工作室加工处理出这些张弛有度，模糊，怪诞，不平衡的宁静且冲突新世界。两只交织的火烈鸟是深情拥抱还是相互制约着对方；两只冰上较量的驯鹿，气氛残酷的宁静着。矛盾无处不在，这是一个让人不安的理想世界，因为这世界背后有着欲望，恐惧，邪恶的交织。艺术家认为这个饱含宗教幻想性的议题指向了生活中永远不可到来的那一个时刻，而他就要释放自己，去描述那一个时刻。
Photographs from Simen Johan’s ongoing project, Until the Kingdom Comes, depict an unsettling natural world hovering between reality, fantasy and nightmare. Johan merges traditional photographic and sculptural techniques with digital methods. Having originally photographed a variety of plants and animals in natural preserves, zoos, farms, museum dioramas or his own studio, the artist then resituates them digitally into new environments constructed from images photographed elsewhere.
In his work, Johan creates tension and blurs the boundaries between opposing forces, such as the familiar and the otherworldly, the natural and the artificial, the serene and the eerie. In one photograph, two black-beaked flamingos intertwine in an embrace that seems at once affectionate and restricting. In another, two hapless caribou lie glazed with ice, frozen in a scene that is both tranquil and brutal. Exploring the paradoxical nature of existence, the artist situates his images between an ideal paradise and a reality complicated by desires, fears and darker instincts.
While some photographs in the series reference Biblical motifs, Johan says that his choice of title, Until the Kingdom Comes, “refers less to religious or natural kingdoms and more to the human fantasy that one day, in some way, life will come to a blissful resolution. …In a reality where understanding is not finite and in all probability never will be, I depict ‘living’ as an emotion- fueled experience, engulfed in uncertainty, desire and illusion.”
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