陶艾民 《女書》裝置 2007年
陶艾民以搓衣板為原版，用拓印的方法和傳統(tǒng)線裝書的形式創(chuàng)作了一件題為《女書》的作品。搓衣板上那些被磨損的瓦楞和鼈裂的痕跡就是用歲月搓洗出來的‘文字’，也是用生命“書寫”的“文字”。這是一種更具人生底蘊的“文字”，是一種可以直觀的生命語言。陶艾民嘗試將宣紙鋪在一排搓衣板上，或拓印，或揮灑，在水墨的自然滲化中凸顯出搓衣板的斑駁痕跡。
當她想到用線裝書的形式來顯現搓衣板所固有的生命語言時，想到與“江永女書”的結合。這樣，她從搓衣板中發(fā)掘出的生命語言，與江永婦女所創(chuàng)造的符號語言十分自然地匯流在一起。而對女書文字的理解，如她所說，“它的特有形式，陰柔中暗藏著銳氣，尖而斜的字體仿佛將矛頭指向天空，發(fā)出另類的聲音。它是一個個獨立而向往自由的靈魂，它為我的《女書》增添了神秘氣息。既含蓄而又深邃，呈現的完全是一種不可閱讀的視覺語言”。
搓衣板本身已經是一件完美的藝術作品——因為它是用女人一生的經歷磨礪出來的一個生命的“物證”，藝術家通過這種極富傳統(tǒng)文化氣息的線裝書形式，將這個普通到不屑一顧的生活用品提升為一種富有象征意義的女性文化！從而強有力地呈現出“永恒之女性”（歌德語）這一偉大母題，并借以體現出陶艾民“重塑女性精神”愿望。
Commendation
By Jia Fangzhou
The recent work of Tao Aiming is his Female Text Only which is a device with garment board, rice paper and text rubbed on, thread-bound book alike. The garment board is used so directly to show the uncorrectable life tragedy of Chinese women.
When he strived to the fix lives on the board, he thought of the Jiangyong Female Character, combining it in his work, the most mysterious characters perhaps on the world for women only, a character system, gentle but sharp, and free and far-reaching, subtle but profound, plus, there is an excellent visual effect.
The garment washing board, daily used in Chinese family, already a perfect art piece, for it is the very right testimonials of women’s live. On the other hand, thread-bound book is another thing symbolizing the traditional official culture and cultural hegemony that used to relate nothing to a common female, which indicates profoundly. Goethe once said, “Eternal female” is a great topic forever.
【編輯：姚丹】
