《Mr.Jiao 的“艺术博览会”》

　　人们都知道罗素（Bertrand Russel）《心的分析》一书中提出的悖论：世界可能在几分钟之前被创造，但却拥有记得虚幻往事的人类。
　　关于这一点，大家可以重温19世纪英国自然主义者在其书《翁法洛》（英文Omphalos,意为“圆锥形神石”。此石位于古希腊特尔斐城阿波罗神殿中，古希腊人此石标志世界的中心。）中的假说，按照其假说，各种类包括人类起源和进化的所有地质和化石痕迹都可能是五千年前上帝按照《圣经》创造世界的一种当代的模拟。
　　所有似乎追溯到彼世直至时间隧道深处的东西都可能是上帝为赐予我们这个世界一个开端和一个历史而宽厚地想象出的一场演出，此演出是为了让我们产生时间消逝的幻觉。为了减弱与出自于一种高级愿望的现在这样的世界进行的令人难以容忍的对比，上帝赠给人类一个过去。我们甚至不再想象野蛮的创造行动，但上帝或许考虑过，作为补偿，它赐予人类一个模拟的历史以使人觉得自己的生存变得可以接受。
　　但是假如，我们说假如。
　　假如没有表面现象，万物就会是一桩完美的“罪行”，既无罪犯、无受害者，也无动机的“罪行”。其实情会永远的隐退，且由于了无痕迹，其秘密也永远不会被发现。
　　然而，恰恰此“罪行”从来不是完美的。因为万物由其表象漏出马脚，这些表象是其不存在的痕迹，也是虚无延续的痕迹。因为虚无本身、虚无的延续都留下痕迹。因此，万物暴露了自己的秘密，尽管它躲在表象之后，还是让人看出其真实面目。
　　艺术家也同样，总是距这种无意义的完美的“罪行”很近。但是他在摆脱此“罪”，而且他的作品就是此“罪”破绽的痕迹。艺术家是竭尽全力抑制这种不留痕迹的根本冲动的人，恰如《Mr.Jiao 的“艺术博览会”》来自于一次貌似偶得的1533平米“剩余”空间，艺术家便迫不及待的试图去营造一个“犯罪”现场。一个企图让符号与现实的关系更加疏远，一个以模拟取代真实，一个使人与世界的关系变得更加值得怀疑的“犯罪”现场，一个存留痕迹的现场。
　　幸好，我们是以一种必须的幻觉方式、一种不在场的方式、一种非现实的和一种与事物非直接的方式存在。
　　幸好，没有什么是瞬间的、同时的或当代的。
　　幸好，实在没有发生。
　　幸好，“罪行”从来不是完美的……

　　焦振予
　　贰零一四年十月于上海

　　No Entrance: Mr. Jiao’s Art Fair
　　One of the famous paradoxical predictions said by Bertrand Russell goes like this: the world can be created just a few minutes ago, yet humans who embody the illusory past have already existed. The hypothesis of Omphalos by the 19th century English naturalists assumed that all traces left in the process of species evolution, from fossils to geological structure on earth, are in fact a modern remodeling by God in accordance to The Holy Book.
　　So at the end of the day, God blessed us with a story about the beginning of the world and a stage for us to play the present. The stage performance creates illusions about time. God has mercy on us so the past He offered to us is not so entirely brutal and unbearable as it really was. As if God must have thought about it, as a compensation to our merciless creation, God offered us a history that was remodeled in the way that more or less is acceptable in our mindset.
　　As if, only as if
　　If all things were presented as how they really are without external surfaces, all things would construct the perfect crime: no suspected ones, no victim and no motivation. Truth will be forever hidden and secret will be forever secret as nothing will be revealed and no traces can be chased.
　　But there is nothing called perfect crime, because sooner or later all that have happened will leave traces in one way or the other, traces of non-existence yet they are extension of windy nothingness. Secret will be revealed, underneath surface, truth will emerge.
　　Artists are those who deliberately urge their instincts not to leave any traces and who are closest to create such perfect crime. The traces he left are in fact the art work itself. Mr. Jiao’s Art Fair comes from a 1533 square meters’ left-over space where a crime scene is constructed. It is a simulacrum of the reality where the signified is far away from the real thing. There are traces in this crime scene that made us wonder what indeed is our connection with this world.
　　As if our approach is merely an illusion, a presentation of the absence, a dislocated existence of non-existence.
　　Momentary and concurrence are non-existing.
　　Luckily it never has happened
　　Luckily the crimes are never perfect…