艺术家制作“瓷器”武器来探索作为一个女人意味着什么
艺术家制作“瓷器”武器来探索作为一个女人意味着什么
Helena Hauss is a 29-year-old French artist who was “bored and raised” in Paris, where she currently resides. While mostly known for her extremely detailed ball-point pen drawings, Hauss has recently branched out into the world of sculptures.
29岁的海伦娜·豪斯(Helena Hauss)是一名法国艺术家，她在巴黎“无聊地长大”，目前居住在巴黎。豪斯最出名的是她极其细致的圆珠笔素描，最近她又拓展到雕塑领域。
In an interview with Bored Panda, Helena detailed her decision to switch media. “There were some things inside me I wanted to express which I felt I couldn’t do with just a drawing, I wanted to go beyond that. I needed to create an actual object that would say it all once you saw it,” she explained. “Something allegoric, a metaphor where people could go, “Here. This is exactly how I’ve been feeling all this time”.
海伦娜在接受Bored Panda网站采访时详细介绍了她转行的决定。“在我内心深处，有一些东西我想要表达出来，我觉得我不能只用一幅画，我想要超越它。我需要创造一个真正的物体，一旦你看到它，它就会说出来，”她解释道。这是一种寓言，一种人们可以去的隐喻。这正是我一直以来的感受。”
Artist Helena Hauss created these sculptures as a way to challenge our perception of femininity
艺术家海伦娜·豪斯创作这些雕塑是为了挑战我们对女性气质的认知
She titled her ‘porcelain’ project ‘Hell Hath no Fury’. “It’s an approach to represent the inner strength and fury that comes with being a woman, in contrast to an appearance of delicacy we’re too often branded with,” the artist elaborated. “Women have repeatedly been construed as the “weaker sex” and are regularly being preyed on or diminished in some way or another,” Hauss continued on the inspiration behind her sculptures. “Too often portrayed as fragile and delicate, this project is an expression of the contrasting subtleties that come with femininity, as well as an attempt at vindication from a feeling of constant vulnerability that’s been forced upon us.” The ‘ceramic’ weapons are a symbol of ‘inner strength, fury, and empowerment’.
她将自己的“瓷器”项目命名为“地狱没有愤怒”。“这是一种表现女性内在力量和愤怒的方式，与我们经常被打上精致烙印的外表形成鲜明对比，”这位艺术家解释道。“女性一直被认为是‘较弱的性别’，经常被以这样或那样的方式掠夺或削弱，”豪斯继续她雕塑背后的灵感。“这个项目经常被描绘成脆弱和微妙的，它表达了与女性气质形成鲜明对比的微妙之处，也试图从强加给我们的持续的脆弱感中为自己辩护。”“这些‘陶瓷’武器象征着‘内在的力量、愤怒和力量’。
Even though the sculptures look delicate and bring out the images of precious china sets hidden in a cupboard, they are actually very sturdy. Hauss made polyurethane (a polymer that can be used for sculpting) look like porcelain, a very fragile material. “I wanted something strong that wouldn’t break easily, as a metaphor for its subject. Something that would look like Porcelain but actually isn’t,” the artist explained.
尽管这些雕塑看起来很精致，而且能让人联想到藏在柜子里的珍贵瓷器，但它们实际上非常坚固。豪斯制造的聚氨酯(一种可用于雕刻的聚合物)看起来像瓷器，是一种非常脆弱的材料。“我想要一些不会轻易断裂的坚固的东西，作为主题的隐喻。看起来像瓷器但实际上不是，”艺术家解释道。
When asked about the message behind her art, Hauss stated that she doesn’t want to make it political, she wanted her work to be a testimony of her personal feelings. “I think that’s when art works best: not with an agenda, but when done with sincerity,” she added. “It’s the difference between a song written for the masses and one written from the heart: where the lyrics hit you as something you can really relate to. That’s the human experience and in the end, it’s much more powerful than any political agenda: because that’s when we’ll all do better, when we actually truly understand each other”.
当被问及她的艺术背后的信息时，豪斯说她不想把它政治化，她想让她的作品成为她个人情感的见证。她补充说:“我认为这是艺术发挥最佳效果的时候:不是带着议程，而是带着诚意。”“这是一首写给大众的歌和一首发自内心的歌的区别:歌词打动了你，让你能真正体会到其中的感情。”这是人类的经验，最终，它比任何政治议程都要强大得多:因为只有到那时，我们才能做得更好，那时我们才能真正理解彼此。”
As for what’s next in her projects? Helena plans to continue working on art similar to “Hell Hath no Fury”. “I’m currently working on a special piece made all in embroidery, tackling the same kind of idea by using both decorum and cynicism,” she let us have an exclusive glimpse at her next project. “Most of my work explores that similar theme of Irreverence [,] it’s all about challenging imposed labels and reveling in one’s own identity rather than having to apologize for it.”
她的下一步计划是什么?海伦娜计划继续从事类似于《地狱没有愤怒》的艺术创作。“我现在正在做一件特别的作品，全部用刺绣制作，用高雅和玩世不恭来处理同样的想法，”她让我们独家看到了她的下一个项目。“我的大部分作品都探讨了类似的主题，都是关于挑战强加的标签，陶醉于自己的身份，而不是不得不为此道歉。”
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