MINUIT
在法語中，MINUIT表示午夜：日落到日出間的過渡期。一天在此時轉變，犯罪發生、轉換四起。城市的白天和夜晚樣貌不同；白天，台北是一個喜怒無常而又繁忙的都市，有著過時的現代化，它暗藏的美絕非讓人一見鍾情。到了晚上，當MINUIT悄悄來臨，微弱閃爍的霓虹燈下，台北的臉漸漸轉移，從黑暗中慢慢浮現。在這個獨特的時刻，沒有什麼比身處在那裡這件事更有意義了，現實正在萎縮，時間停止正常運行，聽得到城市的呼吸。它的牆壁和小巷、它的窗戶和林蔭大道，紛紛演變成跳動的陰影和傷感的氣氛，為台北揭開不為人知的一面。
從2010年開始，余白花了很長的時間，每個星期在台北市和新北市的夜晚街頭行走，追蹤這個城市的靈魂，捕捉它在黑暗中的魅力，這次的展出呈現我對於這個主題的著迷。幾個夜間生物，是在影子劇場裡的演員，為這原始的、夜出的生活方式提味，包括睡在被時間遺忘的小店老闆，在街角館子休息的夜班工人，街頭迷失的靈魂，或只是信步閒逛的人們。正是這些人，讓台北成為世上最迷人和詩意的夜都之一，又如此輕巧而慷慨地和我分享了這個珍貴的秘。
余白，駐台北的法國記者。1996年開始了他的攝影歷程，在過去的二十年中，持續拍攝記錄城市居民與環境之間的關係。透過這個與城市交流的時刻，他試圖揭示這種時間似水流逝和產生的印記間的戲劇性潛力。台北是他最喜歡的題材之一，他花了很多時間，在每一個角落，記錄人們的生活方式和捕捉對過去的追想與消失中的記憶。他的作品曾在巴黎、台北和印尼萬隆發表，並於一些法國和台灣雜誌出版品中可見。在他個人網站 www.huberkilian.com將可欣賞他個人的更多的攝影作品。
MINUIT
In
French, MINUIT means midnight: the transitional period between sunset and
sunrise. It is a time when the date changes, crimes are committed and
transformations occur. Cities offer a different spectacle by day and night. By
day, Taipei is a moody yet busy city characterized by an obsolete modernity of
which the beauty is never obvious at the first sight. At night, when MINUIT is
stealthily approaching, Taipei’s face is shifting, slowly emerging from the
dark in the weak, flickering neon lights. At that unique moment, when nothing
matters more than the fact of being there, reality is shrinking, time stops
running normally and the breath of the city can be heard. Its walls and lanes,
its windows and boulevards are evolving into a spectacle of dancing shadows and
heavy atmospheres, revealing the secrets of Taipei’s hidden side.
Starting
2010, HUBERT KILIAN has spent long hours each week walking the streets of
Taipei and New Taipei at night. The collection of images presented here shows his
desire to track down the souls of the city and to capture its after-dark charm.
A few night creatures, bit players in this shadow theater, include shopkeepers
sleeping in stores that time forgot, tired night workers resting in anonymous
eateries on street corners and lost souls or casual walkers savoring an
original, nocturnal lifestyle. All these people have gently and generously
shared with me those precious secrets that make Taipei by night a very
fascinating and poetic city.
HUBERT
KILIAN is a Taipei-based French journalist. He began his photographic odyssey
in 1996 and, for the past two decades, has been photographing cities to
document the relationships between inhabitants and their environment. Through
this urban momentum, he seeks to reveal the dramatic potential of the great
spectacle of time and people passing by, and of the stones that remain. Taipei
is one of his favorite subjects. He has spent many hours visiting every corner
to meet people, to record their ways of life and to capture reminiscences of
the past and vanishing memories. His work has shown in Paris, Taipei and
Bandung, as well as being published in several French and Taiwanese magazines. At
www.hubertkilian.com can be seen a more extensive selection of photographs.
