藝術家Artist
李翔Lee Sean
藝術家簡介Artist Profile
藝術家李翔，本名李松樺，1979年生。現任於中華郵政，負責投遞信件包裹，年資至今為13年。
2014年接觸攝影，主要紀錄在工作同時所看見的人、事、物，而後將照片放置在 Instagram上，並將其紀錄內容命名為「差差工作記錄」
Lee Sean, born in 1979, has served as a postman in Chunghwa Post Company for 13 years.
As a postman, he rides his postal service motorcycle 40 to 60 kilometers every day to deliver mails in rural Tainan. In 2014, he started to record his work, people he encountered, and sceneries he saw with cameras. Later, he uploaded various photos on Instagram account with hashtag “Postman Diary” and generated sensation immediately.
創作論述Work Text
差差工作日誌
李翔，一位臺南地方郵局的郵務士。配備著他的手機以及最為信任，並且伴隨著他到街頭巷口遞送郵件的夥伴—他的綠色檔車。
李翔作為一個郵務士得天獨厚的身份促使他用一個不只是週而復始的工作循環，而是永保好奇且被驚艷的心去見證他的工作，與他周遭的環境。在過去的五年間，不論風雨，抱著溫柔且善解人意的心情去拍下工作途中遇到的各種建築、稻田、蔬果園或是人的互動等等城郊區文化景觀的演進。漸漸的，他與這群可能沒離開過，或選擇，或被迫待在偏遠鄉鎮的人們更靠近了。要被從未接觸過的群體接受並創造連結是需要時間的，而“理解”地景，理解自己正在經歷什麼樣的歷史亦同。
藉著工作的種種機會，李翔直覺性地增加了他對於人群、臺灣歷史的認知以及敏銳程度。他不只是靠著郵務發送創造了連結，而是向每一位台南市民分享他真誠的笑容以及相片。以人類學或者公共服務的角度來看，一天又一天，李翔積累了無數能作為研究基礎的資料，那些能展現出臺灣正重振士氣向著世界表現他在疆域以及主權上的位置；不是回望向過去，而是正視當下面臨的挑戰。
李翔的照片，間接代表了那些在主流媒體中缺席的地區，吸引了無數台灣人的目光。當它開始在網路社群上分享自己的作品時，有非常多的受眾認出了那個在相片中他們所愛的、中意的那個臺灣—那個沒有被花時間正視或分享就容易被忽略的臺灣。至今他在Instagram上有著將近四萬六千名的追蹤人數，在臺灣也同時成為了許多攝影愛好者的偶像。這次在臺南國際攝影節是他第一次在臺灣的正式藝術展演空間或機構展出。展覽中連結了藝術展演空間與Instagram兩個呈現影像的平台，兩個不同的受眾群、關注事件甚至時間。而這兩個互不相容的世界，同時卻又彼此餵養著。李翔出版過一本書《李翔（2017)：差差工作日誌，臺北市：有鹿文化》，同時也在2018年的法國波威的Les Photaumnales攝影節展出。而他的Instagram帳號：rookie030，李翔保有一顆雀躍的心持續每日的更新照片。也許各位會想花點時間追蹤他的帳號，一步步的深入他對臺南的探索，或者有可能在臺南的街頭巷口碰到他也說不定！
尼古拉斯・海文／策展人
A Postman Diary
Lee Sean works as postman in Public Post Company in Tainan. Armed with a smartphone and his true companion : his green motorbike, he everyday delivers mails from urban streets to remote countryside areas.
His privileged position pushed him to witness about his work, his environment : Not as a routine but with a constant curiosity and amazement. With a kind and caring attention he takes pictures of the evolution of urbanity, architecture, agriculture, vegetal and human life which he meets on his way, during all the past 5 years, during all seasons. He slowly by slowly became closer to the population which stayed, or decided, or was pushed, to live in remote and countryside areas. It takes times to be accepted, to create links with unknown population. It takes times to « understand » a landscape, to understand the history you are going threw. Lee Sean, in instinctive way succeeded to use his job to increase his attention and knowledge about people, about Taiwan history. He creates links, not only in spreading mails but by sharing his images and his smiles with Tainanese citizen. As an anthropologist or a social survey, day after day he accumulates documents which could be used as a research base in a time where Taiwan is reinforcing the will to express his own identity and territorial identities : not turned to the past but aware of contemporary challenges.
His images, representing places which are absent from main medias, seduced Taiwanese citizen. When he began to share his pictures on social networks, a very large audience recognized in his pictures a Taiwan that they like, that they love, a Taiwan that they could ignore if someone didn’t take the time to look at it and share. Today he has nearly 46 000 followers on his Instagram account, he became a popular figure for photography in Taiwan. His exhibition during the Tainan International Photography Festival is his first
exhibition in an Art space and institution in Taiwan. The show creates links between two platforms which spread images : Instagram and Art Spaces : different audiences, different attentions, different time… two worlds which are not irreconcilable, two worlds that need to feed each others. He published a book (Uniqueroute, A Postman Diary, Jan 2nd 2017). He exhibited his work during the Festival Les Photaumnales in Beauvais, France in September 2018. He continues to remain surprised and cheerful and take daily pictures on his account : rookie030. Maybe you might take the time to follow him going deeper and deeper in his exploration and survey of Tainan time, or maybe you will cross his way on Tainan roads.
Nicolas Havette / Curator