傅文俊 Fu Wenjun

在《哥德巴赫猜想》系列作品中，我选用了货币符号、头部CT片、以及骰子和科学公式为主要元素。以此表现在金钱制约下人类思想如何把握现实与未来，以及金钱诱导下后现代社会中“自我”的分崩离析。

In the Goldbach’s Conjecture series, I employ currency symbols, CT scans of the human head, as well as dice and scientific formulas as the principal elements. Through these, I explore how human thought, constrained by money, attempts to grasp reality and the future, and how, under the inducement of capital, the “self” in postmodern society undergoes fragmentation and disintegration.

我之所以选取货币这一元素，是因为货币指代着一种社会关系，它是最能直接表征人性的社会符号和文化载体。货币是政治的母乳，社会地位、权力结构、国际威望都与货币相关。无论是人民币、欧元还是美元，在铸币的形式象征上，都具有一定的民族性、政治性，并且在不同的国家操作着不同的语言。而三者的连带关系又表明世界的总体政治格局。正如马克思所言：货币是对未来需要的保障，又是超出需要的财富形式。它以国家的权力为依托，是最具纯粹象征意义的符号。无论是哪种货币，他们都扮演着同样的角色，即以自身千篇一律的形式兑换世界上任何一种生活物品，金钱的神话就是在于它可以把任何东西联系在一起，成为所有事物价值的衡量尺度。我们不难发现，金钱已成为评价个人属性的关键标准。货币本身并不代表什么，关键是人类对它所采取的态度。那么货币是怎样作用于人类的思想以及客观世界的呢？每个人都有不同的心里世界，人类的精神即无法回避、无法重设，又不能在现实时空中加以界定。现今有很多技术可以检测出人们的心理活动，而我就是想通过大脑的CT图像（CT是电子计算机X射线断层扫描式的探测仪器），把人们形而上的、不可见的思想转换成形而下的、可视的图像。货币推进了人类理性思维，在人脑中的骰子以及科学公式正是理性思维的产物。我想借助这些元素展现一个受金钱控制的理性的狭隘的心里流程。金钱把人们引向对数量规定性的审视之中。每个人头脑中都有一个骰子，骰子所呈现的数字可能意味着未来的走向，因为骰子在发源之初是为占卜之用。它既是不确定的，因为任何思维的颤动都可能影响到骰子的点数，但是它又是受限的，就像骰子任意相对的两面之和都是七一样。同时那些代表真理的科学符号把生活的客观化为数理结构，并充当骰子的调节器。但一切事物都在为赢得最大的点数而努力，即渴望成为赢家（获得更多的利益与金钱）。

I chose currency as a key element because it signifies a form of social relationship; it is the social symbol and cultural medium that most directly embodies human nature. Money is the lifeblood of politics: social status, power structures, and international prestige are all intertwined with it. Whether the currency is the renminbi, the euro, or the US dollar, each carries national and political attributes in its symbolic form, and each operates through different linguistic systems in different countries. Taken together, their interrelations also reveal the overall political configuration of the world. As Karl Marx observed, money is both a guarantee of future needs and a form of wealth that exceeds those needs. Anchored in state power, it is a symbol of the purest kind. Regardless of the specific currency, all play the same role: through their uniform form, they can be exchanged for virtually any object of life. The myth of money lies precisely in its ability to connect everything, becoming the universal measure of value. It is not difficult to see that money has become a key criterion by which individual attributes are evaluated. Money itself signifies nothing in isolation; what matters is the attitude human beings adopt toward it. How, then, does money act upon human thought and the objective world? Each person possesses a distinct inner world. The human spirit can neither be avoided nor reset, nor can it be clearly defined within concrete time and space. Today, many technologies are capable of detecting psychological activity. Through CT images of the brain (CT being computerized X-ray tomography), I seek to transform metaphysical, invisible thought into images that are physical and visible. Money has propelled the development of rational thinking, and the dice and scientific formulas embedded within the brain are precisely products of such rationality. Through these elements, I aim to present a narrow psychological process of reason controlled by money. Money guides people toward an obsession with quantitative determination. In everyone’s mind there is a die; the numbers it shows may suggest the direction of the future, for dice were originally used for divination. They are uncertain, since even the slightest fluctuation of thought may affect the outcome, yet they are also constrained—just as the sum of any two opposite faces of a die is always seven. Meanwhile, scientific symbols that claim to represent truth objectify life into mathematical structures and serve as regulators of the dice. Ultimately, all things strive to achieve the highest number—that is, to become winners, to obtain greater benefit and more money.

人的思想成为货币的附属物，货币使人内化，使人只能如此看、如此听、如此想。所有这些具有普遍原理的公式超量的塞入接受者的脑中，从而将不同人的思想体验、价值认同和心理欲望都整合为同一频道，统一思考模式，统一价值认同。就像作品一样，不同的CT片不同的金钱符号，不同的骰子点数，不同的原理公式，却是同样的结构与形式。
除此之外，我在创作作品的时候都在刻意寻求抽象绘画的感觉，我想以抽象性彰显未来的不确定性、与神秘性。同时与后现代主义“自我”的分崩离析的状态相呼应。其实，人在生活中普遍缺乏对人自身的理解，也缺乏对世界以及真理的理解，所以我选择直白的利用CT片让人们逼近现实。另外我采用镜面材质，是想让人们在审视作品的同时，也在审视自我。感受我们生命、未来、思想运转的瞬间及其幽暗的空白，感受到自己并领悟自身之亲在的模糊和不定。

Human thought becomes an appendage of money; money internalizes itself within people, conditioning them to see, hear, and think only in prescribed ways. These formulas, which claim universal validity, are excessively implanted into the recipient’s mind, thereby integrating the diverse experiences of thought, systems of value, and psychological desires of different individuals into a single channel—unified modes of thinking and unified value systems. As in the works themselves, different CT scans, different currency symbols, different dice numbers, and different theoretical formulas all lead to the same structure and form.
In addition, throughout the process of creation I have deliberately sought a painterly quality akin to abstract painting. Through abstraction, I aim to highlight the uncertainty and mystery of the future, while echoing the postmodern condition of the fragmentation and disintegration of the “self.” In reality, people generally lack an understanding of themselves, as well as of the world and of truth. For this reason, I chose to use CT scans in a direct and unmediated way, bringing viewers closer to reality. I also employed mirror-like materials so that, while contemplating the work, viewers are simultaneously compelled to examine themselves—to sense the fleeting moments of our lives, our future, and the workings of our thoughts, along with their dark, indeterminate voids, and to perceive and apprehend the blurred and unstable nature of one’s own presence.

货币获得了任何一种其他事物都不具备的穿透力，抹去任何事物的特殊性，就像科学公式一样具有普遍套用性。货币使人们摆脱各种实物的羁绊，展示出人类自主性发展的努力，但同时也陷入自设的陷阱。它的效应似乎理所应当，就其原由再简单不过，正如萧伯纳所说，对金钱的共同关心，是我们文明中一个充满希望的真相。但是它正像哥德巴赫猜想一样，内容十分简洁，但它的证明却异乎寻常的困难。

Money has acquired a kind of penetrative power unmatched by any other thing, erasing the particularity of all objects and, like scientific formulas, possessing a universal applicability. It frees people from their attachment to concrete things and appears to demonstrate humanity’s striving toward autonomous development, yet at the same time it entraps us in a snare of our own making. Its effects seem self-evident, and its causes deceptively simple. As George Bernard Shaw once observed, the shared concern for money is one of the hopeful truths of our civilization. And yet, like Goldbach’s Conjecture, its premise is strikingly simple, while its proof is extraordinarily difficult.