“西南纪行”摄影展 与德国驻中国西南首任领事弗瑞兹·魏司影像对话

杨艳

走進浸染时代记忆的山城巷，百年前的影像、文字与音频，经过解构、重组带来非凡的感官冲击。这是一次跨越山海的相见，一场穿越时空的中德影像对话。

2021年12月4日，“西南纪行—穿越百年时空的中德影像对话”摄影展（重庆站）开幕式在渝中区山城巷举行。此次展出的百余幅照片不仅重现了百年前德国驻中国西南首任领事弗瑞兹·魏司镜头下的中国，更有中德摄影艺术家对当下的记录与对未来的探寻。本次展览展出至2022年1月4日。

德国驻成都总领事馆副领事邓森，重庆市渝中区政协副主席戴伶、市政府外办领事处处长范青、重庆永宏智造文化旅游有限公司董事长兼山城巷主理人黄恒等出席摄影展开幕式。

邓森表示，此次展览是中德文化的一次联合创作。通过图像解构历史人文和社会生态的发展与变迁，充分感受到百年来中德合作成果和中德艺术的融合互动，最终呈现了这场穿越百年时空的影像对话。

20世纪初，德国驻中国西南首任领事弗瑞兹·魏司携夫人海德维希在川渝滇等地游历期间，用镜头记录了中国西南地区的实景与风土人情。“展览的亮点是，我们有幸获取到了魏司夫妇的后代Tarama Wyss以祖父母的相片为线索在西南拍摄的纪录片。据纪录片《中国鞋子》记载，魏司当年也曾驻留在现今的山城巷仁爱堂。这部纪录片也将以影像装置的方式放置在防空洞内与展览呼应。”策展人王远凌介绍。

据介绍，今年8月，德国知名摄影师托尔思藤·舒曼和中国资深摄影师张晓，与4位从全国各地赶来的摄影爱好者共同在中国西南进行了为期3天的中德摄影家工作坊创作。沿着魏司作品的脉络，通过实地拍摄，再次用镜头记录大美西南。工作坊的优秀习作在本次展览中与魏司老照片共同呈现，展示中德文化的交流与对话。

在德国驻成都总领事馆的推动下，弗瑞兹·魏司夫妇19世纪末至20世纪初在中国西南地区游历时留下的大量影像、文献资料以“西南纪行”巡展进行展出。作为魏司曾经的驻留之地，“西南纪行”第二站来到了重庆。

在重庆厚重的历史中，有一个不可忽视的存在—防空洞。山城巷完整保留了重庆防空洞集群。据介绍，作为此次展览的又一亮点，除了地上的两层展陈空间，展览首次与地下防空洞结合。摄影展览延伸至防空洞，观众可以进行一场地下“洞子探险”的观展体验。

此外，参展的中德艺术家托尔斯藤·舒曼、张晓、刘晓烨、董亚林、刘星昊，以观片会的形式与大家分享自己的作品和创作理念，从而促进中德文化交流。

Walking into the Mountain City Lane impregnated with the memory of the times， the images， text and audio a century ago have brought extraordinary sensory impact through deconstruction and reorganization. This is an encounter across great geographic distance and a Sino-German image dialogue over time and space.

On December 4， the opening ceremony of the photography exhibition of "The Southwest Now and Then"-“ A Sino-German Photography Dialogue" （Chongqing stop） was held in Mountain City Alley， Yuzhong District. The 100-plus photos on display not only reproduce China in the lens of Max Friedrich Weiss， the first German consul in Southwest China a century ago， but also Chinese and German photographic artists' contemporary records and future explorations. The exhibition will last until January 4， 2022.

Sebastian Dern， Vice Consul of the German Consulate General in Chengdu， Dai Ling， vice chairwoman of the CPPCC Chongqing Yuzhong District Committee， Fan Qing， director of the Consular Division of the Foreign Affairs Office of Chongqing Municipal People's Government， Huang Heng， chairman of Chongqing Yonghongzhizao Cultural Tourism Co.， Ltd. and principal of Mountain City Alley， attended the opening ceremony of the photography exhibition.

Sebastian Dern said that the exhibition is a joint creation of Chinese and German culture. Through image deconstruction of the evolution and vicissitudes of history， culture and social ecology， the integration and interaction of Sino-German cooperation achievements and Sino-German arts in the past century could be fully savored and this image dialogue spanning a century has been eventually presented.

At the beginning of the 20th century， Max Friedrich Weiss， the first German consul in Southwest China， and his wife Hedwig recorded the real scene and local customs of Southwest China with cameras during their trips in Sichuan， Chongqing and Yunnan. "As the highlight of the exhibition， we were lucky to get the documentary filmed by Tarama Wyss， the offspring of the Weiss couple in Southwest China with the photo of their grandparents as the clue. According to the documentary Chinese Shoes， Max Friedrich Weiss also stayed in today's French Benevolence Hall in Mountain City Lane. The documentary will also be placed in the air raid shelter as a video installation to echo the exhibition." said curator Wang Yuanling.

It is introduced that in August this year， the famous German photographer Torsten Schumann and senior Chinese photographer Zhang Xiao， together with four photography enthusiasts from all over the country， conducted a three-day Sino-German photographer workshop in Southwest China. Continuing the logic of Weiss's works， through field shooting， they recorded the beauty of Southwest China again with their camera lens. The excellent works of the workshop are displayed together with the old photos of Weiss in this exhibition to display the cultural exchange and dialogue between China and Germany.

With the promotion of the German Consulate General in Chengdu， a myriad of images and documents left behind by Mr. Max Friedrich Weiss and his wife Hedwig during their tour in Southwest China from the end of the 19th century to the beginning of the 20th century were shown in the itinerant exhibition of "The Southwest Now and Then". As the place where Weiss once stayed， Chongqing is now chosen as the second stop of the "The Southwest Now and Then".

In the profound history of Chongqing， there is an existence that can never be ignored - air raid shelter. Chongqing air raid shelter cluster has been completely preserved in Mountain City Alley. It is said that as another highlight， in addition to the two-story exhibition space above the ground， the exhibition has combined with the underground air raid shelter for the first time. The photography exhibition extends to the air raid shelter， and the visitors may experience an underground "shelter exploration".

In addition， the participating Chinese and German artists Torsten Schumann， Zhang Xiao， Liu Xiaoye， Dong Yalin and Liu Xinghao shared their works and creative ideas via a photo viewing meeting， so as to promote cultural exchanges between China and Germany.