Artist Statement



Since 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic has spread globally. A young woman quarantining at home lights a candle on her palm in order to fight against the numbest caused by virtual online interaction. After this intimate contact with flames, she thinks that she has fallen in love with fire. And then, she started a series of practices to get closer to fire.

However, when she burns her hand in order to keep the fire in her hand longer, she puts off the flame because she can not conquer her fear. Therefore, she finds out the love that she has claimed towards fire is a statement to shields and mitigates her desires and selfishness. Her desire object has already deviated from fire. Her real purpose is to use the beauty and power of fire to escape from her own mediocrity as a mortal. Then, after realizing this, she starts to reflect on herself and to make her confession.
Through The Deviation of Desire: Fire, I create a space for revealing desires. The character in the film talks to herself about her fear and selfishness like making a confession. Giving up on maintaining a good image, instead, she exposes her disgraceful thoughts, dissecting a kind of "lip servicing” love. (false love?) Because, as you know, if you want to hear others’ secrets, you have to share your secrets first. I want to create films like creating dreams because, In dreams, we discover our deep and even disgraceful desires. And I also want to invite the audience to join the dream, but I’ll join it first, and the rest is up to you.








艺术家阐述



一位居家防疫隔离中的年轻女子，为了抵抗虚拟网络交流带来的情感麻木，在手心点燃了蜡烛。而在这次与火的亲密接触后，她认为自己爱上了火，并开始一系列使自己与火更亲近的行为。

然而，当她为了让火更长久地停留在手中而点燃手掌后，她因为无法战胜恐惧扑灭了火焰。因此，她发现她声称的对火的爱，是为开脱自身自私的借口，她的欲求早已偏离了火，她真正的目的是凭借火的强大脱离自身凡人的平庸。于是，她开始叩问自己的内心，开始她的忏悔。




我用短片《欲望的偏移：火》营造了一个欲望袒露之地，让主角忏悔一样地自言自语出自己的恐惧和自私，放弃维持看上去美的景象，转而暴晒不那么高尚的念头，解剖一种「叶公好龙」的爱。你知道，想要听到别人的秘密，就要先说出自己的秘密。我用作品造梦，因为在梦里各种隐秘都现形。我也想对观众发出入梦的邀请，不过我先干为敬，你随意；我先说出秘密了，你随意。