故乡之抽象，不是一个静态的地理坐标，而是一个在意识边界中持续变形的一个器官，呼吸时间，吸收情感，过往的美好记忆，在充斥的信息与影像不断喂养之后，这样的故乡，早已不属于我，而是被社会、科技与集体记忆共同塑形。
大塊之形 2017.1, The Great Clod 2017.1, 油彩、畫布 Oil on canvas, 130 × 180 × 5 cm, 2017
在这里，集体意识的每一次回望，都以 “既视感” 的方式浮现：似曾相识的带着陌生，每个人都以为自己托在心上的故乡独特私密，但事实上，这些经验正被同样的影像、数据与叙事模式架构，更甚，当新时代来临，人工智能参与图像记忆的再造，它不只是重播过去，而是透过算法将片段重新组合，制造出 “仿佛曾经发生” 的瞬间。既视感不再只是心理错觉，而成为技术塑造的体验，一种由 0 与 1 喂养的幻象熟悉感。
不仅生成既视感，它还生成 “预言”。
五花肉系列－肉山水－恆遠之丘 The Streaky Pork Series -Flesh Landscape - The Hill of Eternal Distance, 油彩、畫布 Oil on canvas, 91 × 72.5 cm, 2025
透过庞大的数据预测与模拟，将未来场景以影像或语言的形式引导呈现，这座 “故乡” 同时包含了失落的昨日与尚未发生的明天。它让我们仿佛置身于一种 “双重幻象” 之中：在 “人类权” 被 “非人类” 默默夺取的过程中，既视感的闪现让我们怀疑过去是否真实，预言则让我们怀疑未来是否已经被写好。“假如故乡”，将之前 “大玄玄社会” 的虚幻更聚焦在慢慢描述的双向沉溺，艺术家常陵邀请观赏者一起投射幻象的粼光，在这过度喂养的时代里，企图留下能够提醒我们仍然鲜活的痕迹。
瀕臨樂土－植物園 On the Brink of Paradise - The Botanical Garden, 油彩、畫布 Oil on canvas, 90.8 × 117 cm, 2024
假如故鄉 — 芭蕉園 5 If My Homeland – Banana Grove 5, 油彩、畫布 Oil on canvas, 91 × 117 × 3 cm, 2025
Hometown, in its abstraction, is not a fixed geographical point. It resembles an organ at the edge of consciousness, constantly shifting form, breathing through time, and absorbing emotion. What once held beautiful memories has, after being endlessly fed by images and information, become something no longer mine. It is now shaped by society, technology, and collective memory.
In this space, every act of collective remembrance surfaces as déjà vu: a strange familiarity that feels deeply personal, yet is structured by shared visuals, data, and patterns of storytelling. We each believe our hometown is uniquely ours, yet it is built from the same cultural materials. With the rise of artificial intelligence, even memory itself is reconstructed—not by recalling the past, but by algorithmically rearranging fragments to create moments that feel like they might have happened. Déjà vu is no longer just a psychological slip; it becomes a crafted experience, a sense of familiarity produced by digital patterns.
But it does not stop at memory. It also generates prophecy.
Through massive datasets, prediction models begin to guide us toward visions of the future—rendered in image, in language, in ambient suggestion. This "hometown" now contains both the yesterday we’ve lost and the tomorrow not yet lived. It places us in a double illusion: as non-human systems quietly take hold of the narratives that once belonged to humans, we begin to question whether the past ever truly existed—and whether the future has already been written.
If My Hometown continues the inquiry that began in Illusion Society, shifting focus from the spectacle of the unreal to a slow, immersive duality. Here, I invite viewers to project their own visions alongside mine and to follow the shimmer of memory, however artificial. In this age of relentless stimulation, I hope to leave behind subtle traces that remind us what it means to remain alive.
【艺术家简介】About Artist
1975 年生于台湾花莲，2004 年法国国立巴黎高等学院取得 D.N.S.A.P 硕士文凭，2006 年加入台北《悍图社》。常陵的近年个展包括 2023 年《战前准备》于台北 MOCA 当代艺术馆、2022 年《花开在时间不存在的瞬间》于上海东画廊、2019 年《大玄玄社会 — 历史日常》于高雄市立美术馆等，近年联展则包括《时代记忆 — 典藏精选展》于国立台湾美术馆。
【关于ODRADEK】
ODRADEK Résidence画廊由Simone Schuiten女士于2014年成立，位于比利时布鲁塞尔市中心，与著名的Horta美术馆为邻。十年来，ODRADEK致力于欧亚地区的文化交流，代理和驻留过的艺术家过百位，多数来自于比利时、法国、德国以及中国（包括中国内陆、香港及台湾）、日本和韩国。画廊既为众多知名艺术家举办有传播性和交流意义的展览，同时鼓励年轻新锐艺术家在异域文化中激发创作，并与当地艺术生态进行对话。
为寻求发展远东美学与西方美学之间的对话，ODRADEK于每年夏季提供艺术驻留项目。受邀艺术家在布鲁塞尔居住期间得以充分融入欧洲的文化和生活。一直以来，ODRADEK与欧亚地区的艺术院校和当代艺术机构广泛合作，定期举办展览、工作坊与研讨会。
画廊在2023年拓展了ODRADEK的第二空间ODRADEK XL。展览基本遵循两条策展路线：对于书写和笔触踪迹的探究；和对跨文化的实践与创作。
【About ODRADEK】
Founded in 2014 by Ms. Simone Schuiten, ODRADEK Résidence Gallery is located in the heart of Brussels, Belgium, next to the popular Horta Art Museum. Over the past ten years, ODRADEK has been committed to cultural exchanges between Europe and Asia, and has represented and cooperated with more than one hundred artists, most of whom come from Belgium, France, Germany, as well as China, Japan, and South Korea. The gallery organizes exhibitions of communicative significance for many renowned artists, while encouraging young emerging artists to inspire their creations in foreign cultures and to engage in a dialogue with the local art ecology.
Seeking to develop a dialogue between the aesthetics of the Far East and those of the West, ODRADEK offers an art residency program every summer. Invited artists are able to fully immerse themselves in European culture and life during their residency in Brussels. ODRADEK has been collaborating with a wide range of art schools and contemporary art institutions in the European region, organizing regular exhibitions, workshops and seminars.
In 2023, the gallery expanded into ODRADEK XL, the second space of ODRADEK, with exhibitions following two fundamental curatorial lines: the exploration of writing and the traces of the brush; and cross-cultural practices and creations.
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