傅文俊 Fu Wenjun

与人类的文明发展密切关联的有三只著名的苹果：
第一个苹果来自圣经创世纪与智慧有关。圣经开篇讲天地之始，人类的创生：上帝以自我形象造了亚当，又抽取夏娃的肋骨造了夏娃。在蛇的引诱下，亚当夏娃吃下苹果，人类获得了智慧与道德，但也被上帝逐出了伊甸园。第二个苹果与上帝之“力”有关：牛顿被苹果砸到，破解了来自“上帝”的神秘力量，发现了地心引力。而第三个则与乔布斯被咬一口的“苹果”有关。

There are three famous apples closely associated with the development of human civilization. The first apple comes from the Book of Genesis in the Bible and is linked to wisdom. At the beginning of the Bible, the creation of heaven and earth and the origin of humankind are described: God created Adam in His own image, and then created Eve from Adam’s rib. Tempted by the serpent, Adam and Eve ate the apple, through which humanity gained wisdom and moral awareness, but was also expelled from the Garden of Eden by God. The second apple is associated with the “power” of God: Newton was struck by an apple, unraveling the mysterious force attributed to God and discovering gravity. The third apple is connected to the bitten “apple” of Steve Jobs.

在象征体系中，苹果是智慧，又是诱惑。但归根到底，它是人类对未知探求欲望的象征。在作品《没有苹果的那天》中，关于“苹果”的隐喻是我创作的重要线索。英国科学家德斯蒙德·莫利斯曾发出这一疑问：尽管人类的基因充满了斗争与暴力等许多足以导致人类灭绝的品质，但为什么人类文明仍旧可以蓬勃发展呢？就这一本原问题，弗洛伊德认为是“原欲”，而德斯蒙德·莫利斯则认为是人类无止境的好奇与探究欲望，正是它们真正支撑着人类的发展。

Within symbolic systems, the apple represents both wisdom and temptation. At its core, however, it symbolizes humanity’s desire to explore the unknown. In The Day Without Apples, the metaphor of the “apple” constitutes a central thread in my creative process. The British scientist Desmond Morris once posed a question: although the human genetic makeup is filled with traits—such as conflict and violence—that could be sufficient to lead to humanity’s extinction, why has human civilization nevertheless continued to flourish? In response to this fundamental question, Freud attributed the answer to “primitive drives,” whereas Desmond Morris argued that it is humanity’s boundless curiosity and desire to explore that truly sustain human development.

在《裸猿》一书中，德斯蒙德·莫利斯以进化论的角度重新审视人类这一种“动物”。在他看来，人类与其他动物相比较最大的进化优势便是人类永无止境的探知欲望。正因为此，人类走出了伊甸园（德斯蒙德·莫利斯认为所谓的“伊甸园”乃是人猿从森林走向旷野，从“采摘猿”变作“狩猎猿”的原始记忆）。也正因为好奇和探索，牛顿发现了地心引力，将人类从对未知的神秘之“力”转向了现实地心之“力”。到了21世纪，人类更在对未知的好奇与探究中持续推进着文明与社会发展的进程。

In The Naked Ape, Desmond Morris reexamines humanity as a form of “animal” from an evolutionary perspective. In his view, humanity’s greatest evolutionary advantage over other animals lies in its endless drive to inquire and explore. It was precisely this impulse that led humans out of Eden (Morris interprets the so-called “Garden of Eden” as a primordial memory of apes moving from forests into open landscapes, transforming from “gathering apes” into “hunting apes”). It was also curiosity and exploration that enabled Newton to discover gravity, shifting humanity’s understanding from a mysterious, divine “force” of the unknown to the tangible force of gravity at the center of the Earth. Entering the 21st century, humanity continues to propel the progress of civilization and society through its persistent curiosity about, and investigation of, the unknown.

就作品创作手法来说，在《没有苹果的那天》中，我挪用了热成像这一器械的视觉效果，在此基础上又添加了绘画元素，最终画面有着类似于野兽主义一般绚烂而近乎于抽象的色彩。在日常景观之中，通过另一种技术化，许多日常事物获有崭新的形式与意义。这是技术之眼，是人类感官与知觉的延伸，而在好奇心驱动之下，人类正与科技一同走入进化新的纪元。

In terms of artistic approach, in The Day Without Apples I appropriate the visual effects of thermal imaging technology and, on this basis, incorporate painterly elements. The resulting images display colors that are Fauvist in their brilliance and almost abstract in character. Within everyday landscapes, through another layer of technologization, many ordinary things acquire new forms and meanings. This is the technological eye—an extension of human senses and perception—and, driven by curiosity, humanity is entering a new epoch of evolution together with technology.

观念作品《没有苹果的那天》创作于2011年初，几个月后，苹果的首席执行官乔布斯就去世了，没想到作品题目竟一语成谶。当乔布斯创立苹果之初，他竭力避免科技获有“神性”，而离距了人类自行发展。但历史如此吊诡，当苹果避免科技神化的时候，它却演变成为成就了消费的神化。

The conceptual photographic work The Day Without Apples was created in early 2011. Just a few months later, Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs passed away, making the title unexpectedly prophetic. When Jobs first founded Apple, he made every effort to prevent technology from acquiring a sense of “divinity” and drifting away from humanity’s own development. Yet history is full of irony: at the very moment Apple sought to avoid the deification of technology, it gradually evolved into a form of deification through consumption.