Writing, Drawing, Speaking - A Share of a Future, Beijing, 2019

Writing, Drawing, Speaking is a constellation of approaches which both examine and perform the relationships between the acts of speaking, writing and drawing.This item contains the work 'Que Sera Sera' by Stephen Dutton, exhibited as part of the large scale exhibition A Share of a Future, which took place at the library galleries at China University of Mining and Technology, Beijing, 9 March - 30 April 2019.The work is a digital print, approx 6ft x 4ft. It pictures an image of a small child (the artist's daughter, aged 2). A text overlays the image which reads "What was, What is, What will be, What is 'was', What is 'is', What is 'will be', What was 'was', What was 'is', What was 'will be', What will be 'was', What will be 'is', What will be 'will be'". The text plays on the curiosity of the child's questions, but also on the nature both of language itself and the entire of time. The text ends on the comforting tone of the parent calming the child but saying "what will be will be".Image courtesy of the artist. Used with permission.

写作、绘画、演讲构成了一组方法，旨在审视并演绎言语、书写与绘画行为之间的关联。本项包含斯蒂芬·达顿的《Que Sera Sera》作品，该作品作为大型展览《分享一个未来》的一部分展出，展览于2019年3月9日至4月30日在北京中国矿业大学图书馆画廊举行。该作品为数码印刷，尺寸约为6英尺 x 4英尺。图中描绘了一位年幼的孩子（艺术家的女儿，2岁）。图像上覆盖了一段文字，内容为：‘曾何在，现何在，将何在，何曾‘在’，何现为‘在’，何将‘在’，何曾‘曾’在，何曾‘现’在，何曾‘将’在，何将‘在’曾，何将‘在’现，何将‘在’将’。文字巧妙地玩味了孩童的好奇提问，同时亦触及语言的本质与时间的全貌。文字以家长安抚孩童的语气收束，却道出‘将来自有定数’。图像由艺术家提供，经许可使用。