专访摄影师Matilde Soligno / Interview with Matilde Soligno
Matilde Soligno，1980年5月14日出生于意大利博洛尼亚。现居博洛尼亚。最近几年里经常待在纽约。在接受我们访问的时候她正在忙着筹划在纽约的展览，但是她的回答依然让人深思。（字太小，请用ctrl+，谢谢）
一、词语解释
假 – 当我们从充斥着常识的现实中脱离出来，对原本确定的事实产生动摇时，我们就开始质疑终极真相在哪里。
摄影 – 代表我们相信已然存在的事物。一块无论我们如何投入却依然有隔离之感的开放领域。
诗歌 – 练习使用出乎意料的、有质疑意味的比喻来描绘世界。
爱 – 带有鲜明标识的庇佑之所。能感受到最不可言喻的关联。
回忆 – 神经学家埃里克·坎德尔说：“回忆就是我们自身。”我们独特的外表特征造就了各自的个性，反过来亦然。回忆是一条迷人又神秘的地平线。
光 – 显然与时间、空间以及我们所知的每件物品相关。
二、问答
- 你何时开始对摄影感兴趣？是如何开始的？
- 我小时候父母给我买了第一台相机。记得那时候我觉得胶卷是承载感情的最珍贵的东西。父亲以前有许多好玩的光学仪器，像双筒望远镜，反射式照相机，后者我得以继续使用。以前家人会觉得很困扰，常常责备我，因为在旅行中我常需要花相当长的时间去拍摄甚至是最简单的纪念照。19岁的时候大家开始鼓励我认真对待摄影这件事，我想这是很重要的第二步。
- 说到“大师”，你马上会想起谁？请以一句话评价他/她。
- Luigi Ghirri。他能有意识地通过对某个日常物件、环境或者气氛作出贴近生活、唤起共鸣的阐释，表现出深层次的抽象想法，这些想法大多关于影像和意义的归属。
- 请说说最近带给你灵感的东西。
- 挑战总能带给我灵感。离开已知的区域去探索新的地方，比如旅行；遭遇挫折之后明白放手有意想不到的丰富意义；发现有比我所想更多的可以完全放弃的东西。
- 什么事物或事情让你感到恐惧？
- 幻觉。藏匿中的东西。我看不到的东西。脱离我控制的东西。影响巨大的自然现象。死亡。这些同样的事情让我觉得欣喜、着迷或者兴奋。
Matilde Soligno was born on May 14, 1980 in Bologna, Italy. The last few years she has spent long periods of time in New York. She was busy on her exhibition in New York when she answered these questions. Though, her answers are provoking.
1, Special Explanation
Fake- When we abstract ourselves from common-sense reality, our certainties appear to be untrue, and we start asking ourselves where the ultimate truth lies.
Photography- Stands for something we believe has existed. An open field we fill with ourselves, and still escapes us.
Poetry- The practice of using unexpected, problem-posing metaphors to describe the world.
Love- Shelter and recognition. Feeling a mostly unexplicable connection.
Memory- “Our memory is what we are”, by Eric Kandel, neuroscientist. Our unique physical features create our own personality’s features, but the contrary as well. A horizon of fascinating mysteries.
Light- Apparently related to time, space and every single thing as we know it.
2, Q&A
- When did you get interested in photography? How did you start?
- I started as a little girl, when my parents bought me my first camera. I remember considering my filmrolls the most precious and emotion-carrying objects in my possession. My father used to have all these interesting optical instruments, such as binoculars, and a reflex camera which I later obtained to use. My family used to get stressed out and pick on me, since it used to take me a long time to decide how to shoot even the simplest souvenir picture during our frequent trips. When I was 19 people started encouraging me to take my photography seriously, and that can be considered as a second important step.
- Speaking of “master”, who will you instantly think of? please give your comments on him/her in one sentence?
- Luigi Ghirri. He was able to consciously express deep abstract thoughts, mostly about images and meaning attribution, through a life-like and evocative representation of certain everyday objects, situations or atmospheres.
- What give you inspiration recently?
- Challenges always inspire me. Leaving known territories and heading to new ones, as in travelling; getting frustrated and learning there’s an unexpected richness in letting go; finding out there is more than what I thought to things I was about to abandon for good.
- Are there any things or affairs make you feel terrified?
- Illusions. Hidden things. Things I can’t see. Things beyond my control. Enormous natural phenomena. Death. Those same things make me feel ecstatic, fascinated, or thrilled.