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<p><span style="font-size: 20px;"><em>La dépossession</em>, 2014</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 20px;">《剝奪》（2014）</span></p>

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Latifa Echakhch 拉蒂法•艾霞克茜

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<div>Born 1974 in El Khnansa, Morocco</div><div>Lives and works in Martigny, Switzerland</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div><div>1974 年生於摩洛哥El Khnansa</div> <div>現於瑞士馬蒂尼生活及工作</div></div><div>&nbsp; &nbsp;</div>

<p><span style="font-size: 16px;"></span></p><div><table><tbody><tr><td><em>La dépossession</em></td></tr><tr><td>2014</td></tr><tr><td>1000 x 1000 cm</td></tr><tr><td>Theater canvas, painting, steel tube and straps</td></tr></tbody></table>&nbsp;</div><p><span style="font-size: 16px;">In line with works presented at the Kunsthaus&nbsp;Zurich (2012) and for the Marcel Duchamp Prize&nbsp;(2013), Latifa Echakhch presents a ‘ghost show’,&nbsp;a performance deserted by both audience and&nbsp;performers after some unknown disaster. <em>La&nbsp;</em><em>dépossession</em> evokes the latest landscape of&nbsp;<em>The Divine Comedy</em>: perhaps a decomposing&nbsp;sky glimpsed through the foliage of a strange&nbsp;blue forest. Here, the sky seems to have fallen:&nbsp;a theater backdrop painted blue and dotted&nbsp;with clouds has slipped to the floor like a dress&nbsp;left at the foot of the bed. Standing before this&nbsp;crumpled, unfinished canvas, too large for the&nbsp;space, one’s thoughts might turn to the skies&nbsp;of 17th-century paintings, the works of Nicolas&nbsp;Poussin, and to the golden age of theater. A&nbsp;melancholic sense of non finito hangs over the&nbsp;abandoned scene.</span></p><div><span style="font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 16px;">&nbsp;</span></div><table><tbody><tr><td>《剝奪》</td></tr><tr><td>（2014）</td></tr><tr><td>1000 x 1000 厘米</td></tr><tr><td>劇院帆布、畫作、鋼管、捆帶</td></tr></tbody></table><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><div><div><span style="font-size: 16px;">拉蒂法‧艾霞克茜的《剝奪》，跟她先後</span>於2012年在蘇黎世美術館展出及2013年杜象獎的得獎作品如出一轍，想像一場表演由於遇上不明的災難，觀眾及表演者從此一去無蹤的情景。《剝奪》展現的場景猶如《神曲》所描繪的最後景象，看似是從一個奇異森林的樹葉之間，瞥見正在瓦解墜落的天空。藍色的舞台佈景繪上朵朵白雲，就像丟在床邊的一條裙子，裙腳散落在地上。這皺摺重重呈未完成狀態的巨大畫布，擠在小小的空間中，令觀者聯想到十七世紀法國畫家普桑筆下的天空，以及戲劇的黃金年代。被遺棄而未能圓滿落幕的演出，透出一股淡淡的哀愁。</div></div>

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