麦勒画廊 · 弦 xián荣幸推出PING的项目展“日出时间”。

Galerie Urs Meile · 弦 xián is pleased to present PING’s project exhibition Time of Sunrise.

或许时间并不等同于它的度量单位。将时间视为线性流逝，是一种对自身与自然关系的人类想象，一种对世界的共同虚构。

Perhaps time is not equivalent to its units of measurement. Thinking of time as elapsing linearly is a human imagination of our relationship with nature, a common fiction about the world.

记忆中的时间在疫情的封控与隔离中发酵得粘稠而模糊，有些日子被拉长至难以忍受，而另一些则消失得无影无踪。或许这反倒更接近它本来的状态——混沌、循环、持续存在。当人造秩序开始崩解，PING的镜头在三亚的海滩开启了另一种时间叙事：他开始捕捉每一场日出，并持续记录了三年。这是一种近乎仪式化的重复——在动荡之中抓住某种稳定，在无常之中锚定某种秩序，在不安之中构建某种希望。

In the midst of pandemic lockdowns and isolation, time fermented in memory, sticky and blurry; some days felt unbearably long, while others vanished without a trace. This might be closer to its true state—chaotic, cyclical, and permanent. As the man-made order began to crumble, PING’s lens captured another narrative of time on Sanya’s beaches: he started capturing every sunrise and continued for three years. It was a ritualistic repetition—grasping stability amidst turmoil, anchoring order in uncertainty, and building hope in unease.

然而日出从来不是重复的。仔细端详瑰丽的云层，或流光的海浪，那些层叠的褶皱里透出诡谲的沉默。一如琥珀光洁的表层之下，封存着生命的暗涌。PING的摄影，是一种个体对时间的凝视；而通过观看，每个个体的经验与记忆也在这些影像前被悄然激活，并得以辨认时间在自己身上的形状。

However, sunrise is never repetitive. Examining the magnificent clouds or shimmering waves reveals mysterious silences within their layered folds. Like the smooth surface of amber concealing life’s undercurrents beneath it. PING’s photography is an individual gaze at time; through viewing these images, each individual’s experiences and memories are unconsciously activated, allowing them to recognize how time shapes themselves.

当世界停滞，虚构的体系失灵，太阳照常升起，却也不尽相同。日出是循环的象征，也是变迁的隐喻——时间没有流逝，它叠加，交错，无限展开。而我们，正处于它的中间。

When the world stands still and fictional systems fail, the sun rises as usual but differently each day. Sunrise symbolizes cycles and change—a metaphor where time does not pass away but accumulates, intersects, and infinitely expands. And we find ourselves right in the middle of it.

PING

PING于疫情期间被派往三亚工作，驻岛的三年间，他持续用摄影的方式记录日出的变化。

During the pandemic, PING was assigned to work in Sanya and spent three years on the island, continuously documenting changes in the sunrise with his photography.