读懂艺术家 | 广州影像三年展2025——曾繁杨
编者按
广州影像三年展2025以 “感知生态学” 为主题,集结全球 25个国家和地区的80 余位影像领域创作者,呈现一场聚焦生态、感知与媒介创新的艺术盛宴。
参展艺术家立足多元文化背景,以摄影、影像装置、数字艺术等丰富媒介,从自然生态、城市生态、人文生态等维度展开创作,用镜头记录环境变迁,以作品探讨人类与自然的共生关系。
这些创作者既是影像艺术的实践者,也是时代议题的回应者。接下来,让我们逐一走近他们,解读其作品背后的创作逻辑与思想内核。
艺术家简介
Artist Biography
曾繁杨(1994年生)是一位横跨摄影、行为艺术及场域特定介入艺术的艺术家与历史学者,他通过基于研究的实践,对不同权力场域展开深入探讨。他的作品揭示了历史叙事是如何被构建和扭曲的。他拥有伦敦大学伯贝克学院与伦敦国家美术馆合作授予的艺术史博士学位。
曾繁杨的作品曾于多个国际知名机构展出,包括伦敦ROSL(2025)、伦敦萨奇画廊(2025)、布莱顿法布里卡画廊(2024)、新加坡DECK摄影画廊(2020、2015)、柏林B-Part展览空间(2020)、韩国金浦CICA美术馆(2018)。他亦是广州影像三年展(2025)、威尼斯建筑双年展(2021)、亚的斯亚贝巴摄影节(2018)、兰斯克鲁纳摄影节(2018)的参展艺术家。他曾获新加坡艺术博物馆(2025)、新加坡边缘艺术节(2019)、“我们过去的未来”艺术节(2019)以及新加坡国立大学艺术中心(2019)委任创作。
曾繁杨曾荣获LensCulture评论家选择奖(2025)、ROSL摄影奖(2025);入围第166届国际摄影展览奖、法国+新加坡摄影艺术奖(2019)、亚洲隐形摄影师奖(2018);入选Aesthetica艺术奖长名单(2025)以及OD摄影奖长名单(2024);同时获得世界新闻摄影6×6全球人才奖提名。
此外,他曾担任新加坡DECK摄影画廊的联合创意总监,并是第九届新加坡国际摄影节的策展人之一。
曾繁杨现工作与生活于伦敦和新加坡两地。
Sean Cham (b. 1994) is an artist and historian working across photography, performance, and site‑specific intervention. Through a research-based practice, he interrogates different sites of power. His works reveal the ways in which historical narratives are constructed and distorted. He has a PhD in History of Art from Birkbeck, University of London in collaboration with London’s National Gallery.
Cham’s works were exhibited in ROSL, London (2025), Saatchi Gallery, London (2025), Fabrica Gallery, Brighton (2024), DECK, Singapore (2020, 2015), B-Part, Berlin (2020), CICA Museum, Gimpo (2018). He is also a participating artist in the Guangzhou Image Triennial (2025), Venice Architecture Biennale (2021), Addis Foto Fest (2018), and Landskrona Foto Festival (2018). His works had been commissioned by Singapore Art Museum (2025), Singapore Fringe Festival (2019), The Future of Our Pasts Festival (2019), and NUS Centre For the Arts (2019). Cham was a winner of LensCulture Critics’ Choice Award 2025, ROSL Photography Award 2025; shortlisted for 166th International Photography Exhibition Award, French + Singapore Photographic Arts Awards 2019, Invisible Photographer Asia Awards 2018; longlisted for Aesthetica Art Prize 2025, OD Photo Prize 2024; and a nominee for World Press Photo 6×6 Global Talent.
Cham was also an Associate Creative at DECK, and one of the curators for the 9th Singapore International Photography Festival.
He is based between London and Singapore.
参展作品
Exhibited Works





《人物研究》选自《东西望》系列
曾繁杨
新加坡
摄影,喷墨打印、装裱并装框
17cm x 12cm x 12
2024
作品由艺术家提供
Figure Study, from the series Eastern Promise
Sean Cham
SGP
Photography, inkjet print, mounted and framed
17cm x 12cm x 12
2024
Courtesy of the artist
《东西望》系列的《人物研究》部分聚焦于殖民档案中华工身体的"姿势研究"。不同于第一部分的空间叙事,这里的图像回归摄影棚式的简洁背景,艺术家以不同姿势重新演绎档案中的标准化身体姿态。这一策略揭示出殖民摄影术如何通过姿势的规训,将活生生的个体转化为可供比较、分类的视觉数据。然而,当这些姿势被艺术家的身体重新执行,它们不再是被动的服从,而是转化为一种"姿势的政治学"——每一个刻意的回望、每一次姿态的微妙偏离,都在宣示主体性的回归。
曾繁杨的实践因此构成一种独特的"身体-档案方法论":不是将档案作为需要被保护的历史遗产,也不是简单地批判其暴力性,而是通过身体的物质性介入,将档案转化为一个可以被重新进入、重新体验、重新书写的活性空间。这种方法论深植于东南亚华人离散群体的双重位置——既是殖民历史的受害者,又是在帝国中心重新获得发言权的当代主体。作品拒绝将感知坍缩为对历史的怀旧或愤怒,而是通过身体-空间-影像的三重编织,在物质-历史的触感中,共同守护一种标注着正义、复数性与主体尊严的感知方式。
Figure Study focuses on "gesture" of Chinese laborers’ bodies in colonial archives. Unlike the spatial narrative of the first part, these images return to studio-style minimalist backgrounds, with the artist re-enacting the standardized bodily postures from the archives through different gestures. This strategy reveals how colonial photography, through the disciplining of gesture, transformed living individuals into visual data available for comparison and classification. Yet when these gestures are re-executed by the artist’s body, they are no longer passive submission but transformed into a "politics of gesture"—each deliberate gaze back, each subtle deviation in posture, declare the return of subjectivity.
Sean Cham's practice thus constitutes a distinctive "body-archive methodology": not treating archives as historical heritage requiring protection, nor simply critiquing their violence, but through bodily material intervention, transforming the archive into an active space that can be re-entered, re-experienced, and rewritten. This methodology is deeply rooted in the dual positioning of Southeast Asian Chinese diasporic communities—both victims of colonial history and contemporary subjects who have regained a voice at the imperial center. The work refuses to collapse perception into nostalgia or anger towards history, but through the triple weaving of body-space-image, within the tactile sense of material history, collectively safeguards a mode of perception marked by justice, plurality, and the dignity of subjectivity.

《照相馆(棕榈)》,选自《东西望》系列
曾繁杨
新加坡
摄影,喷墨打印、裱铝塑板、外覆木框
80cm x 120cm
2024
作品由艺术家提供
Studio (Palm), from the series Eastern Promise
Sean Cham
SGP
Photography, inkjet print, mounted on aluminum compositepanel, wooden frame
80cm x 120cm
2024
Courtesy of the artist

《照相馆(洋车)》,选自《东西望》系列
曾繁杨
新加坡
摄影,喷墨打印、卷材、c型展架、沙包
200cm x 300cm
2024
作品由艺术家提供
Studio (Rickshaw), from the series Eastern Promise
Sean Cham
SGP
Photography, inkjet print, mounted on scroll, c-stand support,sandbags
200cm x 300cm
2024
Courtesy of the artist
在殖民档案的视觉地层中,华工的身体曾被相机固化为“人类学标本”——正面、侧面、标准化姿态,服务于帝国的分类学凝视。曾繁杨通过双重策略的影像实践,将这一被殖民化的身体从档案的沉积层中挖掘出来,在当代伦敦公寓的私人空间中重新激活。
《照相馆》采用“档案-身体-空间”的三重叠加方法: 艺术家将殖民档案中的华工影像放大为真人尺度的照片背景,在自己的居所中精心置景——植物、家具、织物等日常物件构成一个充满个人记忆温度的剧场空间,然后以自己的身体介入这个历史-当代的交界面。这种创作方法论不同于其他艺术家对档案的直接挪用或对传统工艺的复兴,而是通过“身体的在场”将历史图像转化为一种可被重新体验的物质-空间装置。
当艺术家的当下身体与档案中的历史身体在同一画面中相遇,殖民凝视的单向性被彻底打破。这不是简单的历史再现,而是一种"反向的人类学研究"——曾经被测量、被分类、被凝视的华工身体,如今通过艺术家的主动扮演获得了回望的权力。伦敦公寓这一空间选择本身即构成批判性的地理-政治隐喻: 作为前殖民地移民,艺术家在帝国中心的私人领域中重演殖民档案,这一行为将历史的暴力从公共档案馆拖入个人的日常空间,迫使观众在亲密与疏离的张力中重新审视殖民主义的持久遗产。
Within the visual strata of colonial archives, the bodies of Chinese laborers were once fixed by the camera as "anthropological specimens"—frontal, profile, standardized poses—serving the taxonomic gaze of empire. Through a dual-strategy photographic practice, Sean Cham excavates these colonized bodies from archival sediment and reactivates them within the private space of a contemporary London apartment.
This part of the Eastern Promise series employs a tripartite method of "archive-body-space" superimposition: the artist enlarges images of Chinese laborers from colonial archives to life-size photographic backdrops, carefully staging scenes within his own residence—plants, furniture, textiles, and everyday objects compose a theatrical space imbued with the warmth of personal memory—then intervenes with his own body at this historical-contemporary interface. This creative methodology differs from other artists' direct appropriation of archives or revival of traditional crafts; rather, through "bodily presence," it transforms historical images into a material-spatial installation that can be re-experienced.
When the artist's own body encounters the historical bodies within the archive in a single frame, the unidirectionality of the colonial gaze is fundamentally shattered. This is not simple historical reenactment, but a form of "reverse anthropological study"—the Chinese laborer's bodies, once measured, classified, and gazed upon, now reclaims the power to gaze back through the artist's active performance. The choice of a London apartment itself constitutes a critical geopolitical metaphor: as a migrant from a former colony, the artist restages colonial archives within the private domain of the imperial center, an act that drags historical violence from the public archive into personal everyday space, compelling viewers to re-examine colonialism's enduring legacy within the tension between intimacy and estrangement.




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展览信息
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感知生态学:广州影像三年展 2025
展 期:2025年12月19日至2026年5月5日
地 点:
新馆4/5/6/21号厅
总策划:
王绍强(中)
主题展策展人:
米歇尔·普瓦韦尔(法)
何伊宁(中)
陶丝·达赫玛尼(英)
主题展助理策展人:
张慧(中)
资料文献单元策展人:
高初(中)
大湾区版块策展人:
姚小菲(中)
学术委员:
亚历杭德罗·卡斯特略特(西)
崔银珠(韩)
樊林(中)
高初(中)
皮道坚(中)
施瀚涛(中)
王庆松(中)
(按姓氏首字母排序)
Ecology of Sensitivity: Guangzhou lmage Triennial 2025
Date: December 19th, 2025 to May 5th, 2026
Venue: Hall 4/5/6/2, Guangdong Museum of Art (BAIETAN)
Chief Director:
Wang Shaoqiang (CHN)
Theme Exhibition Curators:
Michel Poivert (FRA)
He Yining (CHN)
Taous Dahmani (GBR)
Theme Exhibition Assistant Curator:
Zhang Hui (CHN)
Archive Space Curator:
Gao Chu (CHN)
Greater Bay Area Special Section Curator:
Yao Xiaofei (CHN)
Academic Committee Members:
Alejandro Castellote (ESP)
Eunju Choi (KOR)
Fan Lin (CHN)
Gao Chu (CHN)
Pi Daojian (CHN)
Shi Hantao (CHN)
Wang Qingsong (CHN)
(Sorted by Surname Initials)
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新馆
BAIETAN Venue of GDMoA
开放时间:每周二至周日9:00至17:00(16:30停止入场),逢周一闭馆(法定节假日和特殊情况除外)。
地址:广州市荔湾区白鹅潭南路19号。
电话:020-88902999,020-88902888。
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本馆
Ersha Island Venue of GDMoA
开放时间:每周二至周日9:00至17:00(16:30停止入场,16:45开始清场),逢周一闭馆(法定节假日和特殊情况除外)。
地址:广州市越秀区二沙岛烟雨路38号。
电话:020-87351468。
Opening hours: 9:00-17:00 from Tuesday to Sunday, No admission after 16:30. Closed on Mondays (Excluding public vacation and exceptional situations)
Address: 38 Yanyu Road, Ersha Island, Yuexiu District, Guangzhou, Guangdong
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审校 / 曾睿洁
资料提供 / 叶舜
图片 / 杜悦儿 曾雨林
编辑 / 刘丹妮
开放时间——每周二至周日9:00至17:00(16:30停止入场,16:45开始清场)
逢周一闭馆(法定节假日和特殊情况除外)。
新馆(白鹅潭):广东省广州市荔湾区白鹅潭南路19号
前台电话: (020) 88902999
本馆(二沙岛):广东省广州市越秀区二沙岛烟雨路38号
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