33’
5 channel video Installation
Sometimes, family photos are good triggers of communication, as they may encourage family members to express their love for each other or use the pictures to explain their special, intimate relationships. Some members naturally show their feelings of missing the others, which they usually keep inside themselves, in the photo taking process. The facial and bodily reactions of the people photographed are responses in communication, while their exaggerated, dramatic facial expressions and body language make them look particularly lovely in their families.
This project involves shooting family photos in open occasions. While evoking the manifestation of family love, confronting the members with their family memories, connections, previous sense of honour and changes in family statuses, the process aroused their emotions and prompted them to re-examine their feelings for one another. The pictures marking the individuals’ shared moments of life with their families are profound in meaning. Let us decipher the signs of the indescribable family love in these family photos!
Press the shutter and it will start flashing. The images are shattered into pieces, and then reassembled into the moments that we want to keep, just like there are ruptures in our families, yet we and the others are all willing to believe that we have perfect families.
Six families were invited to the project. They are Tsui’s, Kong’s, Tang’s, Sham’s, Choi’s and Lee’s
有時候，家庭合影可以是一種美好的交流媒介，能夠引導家庭成員一抒心中之愛，用照片講述他們之間非同尋常的親密關係。日常生活中人們習慣藏起的眷念，在照片中能流露得自然又輕鬆。人們身體和面部的反應正是對溝通和交流的回應，誇張和戲劇性的面部表情和身體語言讓他們在家庭中的形象尤其可愛。
拍攝不僅能喚起親情、促使成員們面對回憶、關係、榮譽感和家族淵源變故，而且調動人們的情緒，在公共場合推動對情感的反思。照片使個人和家庭命運休戚與共。合影雖短暫，意味卻深長醇厚。讓我們從家人照片裏的場景中得以目睹不可言喻的愛的秘密吧。
按下快門，閃光燈閃亮，畫面撕裂成碎片，接著重組成我們想留下的一刻——就像是每一個家庭當中經歷的撕裂，但在外人或自己眼中大家都願意相信自己是一個完滿的家庭。
整個專案邀請了6 個家處進行，當中包括：
Moling一家, Max 一家, Ping Ping 一家, Niki 一家, 高佬 一家, 我一家
當快門按下，閃光燈閃亮的一殺那。畫面撕裂成碎面，接著重組成我們想留下的一刻