A Zen garden slowly appears on a screen, whilst you can hear in headphones the sound of birds and music. Is it Heaven? Suddenly you can hear someone walking closer and closer and sitting next to you. At the same time, the camera slowly moves away, revealing that this so-called garden is in fact just a picture stuck on a wall, before revealing the room itself. The camera is still moving backwards and reveals another person, as the music stops. Then, in this slow movement the image shows a window and the walls of the old building where the flat is, a place located in Kowloo, Hong Kong. In this work called Radio Piece, Belgian artist David Claerbout plays with inside and outside, not only with regard to space but also in our mind. As the artist suggests it, “Radio Piece depicts a city where mental space has already become the new real estate”. Screened in Art Basel Hong Kong's Encounters sector, this piece is the first collaboration between the artist and Sean Kelly Gallery (New York). David Claerbout's work is always very sensitive and questions
the place of each of us in the world and society, in a suspended time, no matter if it is yesterday or today.
屏幕上緩緩浮現一座禪園，耳機同時傳來鳥鳴與音樂。這是天堂？突然聽到有
人走來，愈趨愈近，坐到了你身旁。攝影機同時緩慢移開，讓人恍然大悟：原來這座
花園不過是一張貼在牆上的相片，畫面之後呈現整個房間的情景。相機仍舊持續往後
拉移，這時出現了另一人，音樂同時剎然停止。隨著這個慢動作的進行，畫面出現
一扇窗戶，以及公寓所在的這棟老舊建築的牆面，地點是香港九龍。在題為《廣播之
作》的作品裡，比利時藝術家大衛·克拉耶博（David Claerbout）玩弄與穿梭於裡
裡外外，不只實體空間，同時包括我們頭腦裡的內外。誠如藝術家所指出，“《廣播
之作》描寫的是心理空間已然成為新興房地產業的一座城市”。在香港巴塞爾藝術展
“藝聚空間”展區放映的這件作品，是藝術家與紐約 Sean Kelly 藝廊的首次合作。克
拉耶博的作品向來極具感性，在一個懸置的時間裡，不論昨日今日，對我們每一個人
在這個世界和社會上的位置提出質疑。
