标题Title: 爱情宾馆Love Hotel / 白雪饭店 White Snow Hotel
艺术家Artist: 孟瑾&方二 Meng Jin & Fang ER*
尺寸Size: 140x 140 cm
材质Medium: C-Print


这组作品拍摄于城市中的某一类小旅馆，也被称为“爱情宾馆”的隐秘场所， 爱情宾馆从前
称作茶屋， 始于公元六O年代，主要作为妓女和嫖客使用的空间。然而经过多年企业化的
发展，这类的空间已从地下化慢慢浮出台面。 并广被夫妻或男女朋友提供短暂寻欢的空
间。这类宾馆一般都集中在市区车站附近，有些靠近公路的城市郊区，甚或在工业区。他
的建筑有时是非常的夸张，建筑形状像城堡，船或飞碟，并与霓虹灯点燃照明。同时，也有
许多爱情宾馆从外观上是非常普通的建筑物，他甚至在位置上很隐蔽，有的甚至没有窗户。

爱情宾馆给人一种脱离现实的解放感，许多人在爱情宾馆中得到了精神上的慰留及庇护。
宾馆所布置下的梦幻、想象、与甜蜜结合了平常世俗中无法的那部分满足，也只有爱
情宾馆可以填补都市人生活所失落的那份爱！

爱情宾馆通常提供两种收费：一种“休息”所收取的利率约3小时 ，另外一个就是“过夜”的
计算，通常时间和计价方式会比一般的旅馆饭店稍微便宜。由于价格的优惠，这空间
有时也会吸引一些因经济条件而以此为家的客人。在拍摄的过程中，我们就曾遇过一住十
几年的老房客。

2008年的尾声，我们因为有了新的生命即将诞生而重新调整生活的脚步，并因为这样我们
有了机会一起拍摄第一组以两人合作方式的摄影作品“爱情宾馆”。捆绑是整体视觉的线
索，而他本身“休息”所规定的“3小时”，便是每一个空间跟时间的一个交叉点。在房间里面
找到的物品，对我们而言存在着双重属性：既属于爱情宾馆的那个特定的房间，也只属于我
们出现之后的3个小时。 捆绑的努力是在企图打破这种既有的相互关系，牙刷和拖鞋的拥
抱，椅子脚和枕头相遇，这些被重新聚集的物品对话虽然还是在房间里面表演，但同时也形
脱离了它们各自原有的属性：偶然，而短暂的一次超凡脱俗。

一直以来，我们对建筑与记忆的关系很感兴趣，探讨建筑，家具和物品的存在方式所具有的
社会属性，和历史的关联，以及它们的物理特性是如何影响了个人记忆。这组作品延续了
这方面的思考，同时也通过摄影的手法来质疑我们观看的方式。


标题Title: 爱情宾馆Love Hotel / 正安大旅社 Center Peace Hotel
艺术家Artist: 孟瑾&方二 Meng Jin & Fang ER*
尺寸Size: 140x 140 cm
材质Medium: C-Print


The work is focus on “Love Hotel”, a type of short-stay hotel, many of which
run subterraneanly for the purpose of allowing couples to have sexual
related activities. It first appeared in 1960’s primarily called ‘Tea
House’, often were used by prostitutes for their business. After many years
development, those hotels became popular by public, especially for love
couples. Typically, they located in city districts close to stations, near
highway on city suburbs or in industrial area. Their architecture may be
garish, with buildings shape like castles, boats or UFOs and lit with neon
lighting. However, some of them come with very ordinary looking buildings,
distinguished mainly by having small, covered, or even no windows.

Love hotel could extricate people from their pressure in reality and many
people found mentally comfort and protected by staying in love hotel. Some
hotels may feature fanciful rooms decorated with anime characters, equipped
with rotating beds, ceiling mirrors. Even without that, for many love hotel
users, love hotel creates fantasy and satisfaction feeling which their
routine life cannot provide.

Love hotels usually offer a room rate for a "rest" ranging of 3 hours, as
well as for an overnight stay. In general, love hotel is a bit cheaper than
normal hotel excepting a few high-end ones. Perhaps because of the room
rate, it may attract poor single men for their accommodation. During working
on the project, we met an old man who actually lives in a love hotel for
more than 10 years.

The last half of year 2008, we are slowing down our life because our first
baby is going to be born. It is became a chance for us to start working
together on this project: ‘Love Hotel’. Both of us have been interested in
urban life, architecture, memory and found objects. Many of our work discuss
the interrelationship between physical building, objects and their social
context.

The visual clue in this project is about tie up the objects we found in
the room, while the entire process including photo shooting was within 3
hours, a period of ‘rest’. The physic room, furniture and objects as well as
3 hours were all became performers who we worked with. Love Hotel inspired
us maybe because it was being used for intimate human relations, maybe just
because of the mixed impression of garishness, pornography and a little
mysteriousness.