救生员

Chinese artist Hai-Biao Cai offers a delicate, haunting piece, The Lifeguard. One of the most figurative pieces in the exhibition, two male figures appear to be underwater, both fondling the breasts of a female figure, also underwater. As if swimming up from this undefined situation, a series of Chinese characters takes up a wide portion of the painting, which is created on rice paper. We cannot understand what is happening in an empirical sense, yet we feel a strong desire to figure out the situation. Is the woman enjoying a menage a trois? Is she being attacked? Is she being rescued? We can study the image and never completely decide – much of life, the artist may be saying, depends on our interpretation of seemingly random events. ——Genie Davis评蔡海标作品《救生员》， 刊于北美文学-文化杂志Riot Material，《KAN Offers Up A Fresh Way ‘To Look’》。