ON\OFF策展小组
石玩玩近来尝试着把艺术实践抛入社会关系的偶然性中去完成，这使的他工作成为了一种社会测试。
《伊斯坦布尔画家》是石玩玩根据自身所想象出的一个身处异邦的镜像，在石玩玩的设定中，“他”是一个三十岁左右的叫做“阿里”的年轻画家，居住在一个他毫不了解城市，如伊斯坦布尔。经过了各种可能的途径与漫长的过程，石玩玩找到了那个伊斯坦布尔的画家，展览中的55张文件与邮件呈现了这个经历，而素描肖像则是根据阿里的自我描述所画。但实际上，石玩玩的出发点并不是为了验证个人的想象，而更多是在观念中建构一种可能性的社会关系，并在其中实验几率的可能。
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本文为《伊斯坦布尔画家》参加“ON\OFF-中国年轻艺术家的观念与实践”展览中，策展团队撰写的作品介绍。
发表于同名展览画册。
by ON\OFF Curators team
Shi Wanwan attempts to insert his own artistic practice into the arbitrary flow of social relations. his work itself becoming a social survey.
An Istanbul Painter is a foreign individual of Sui Wanwan`s own imagining-a young painter, around 30 years old, named Ali. Although She Wanwan knows nothing of a city like Istanbul, he eventually locates the individual through a long process of exhausting all possible channels. The 55 pages of email correspondence shown here are the result of his effort, as the portrait he draws of the artist, based entirely from a written explanation from Ali himself. Shi Wanwan undertakes this process not to test his imagination, but to realize a probability.
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This is an introduction to An Istanbul Painter at the ON/OFF: China’s Young Artists in Concept and Practice, prepared by the curation team
Also published in the exhibition book