对于翟倞没有什么是死知识，所有都是鲜活灿烂和对我们的生活意义非凡的。他通过精心挖掘自己和其他国家的历史，不断寻找那些还没有被照射在明亮光线下，而是拖影前行的图像，文字和瞬间。一个国王的无名侍从，一种气味，一位因改朝换代而名誉扫地的风流诗人，身无分文并且迷恋往日杭州的光辉岁月，那里的鱼味道最好。

即使还是孩子的时候，翟倞说，他感兴趣的就不是在铺天盖地的人群中得到的领悟，因为，他说，失败者活得像失败者，英雄活得像英雄。他勾画被遗忘的乡愁，覆盖着时间的痕迹，但超越忧伤。画里没有怜悯之心，虽然充满困苦的感受却没有个人主义的出现；他们似乎代表某物－－是人类肖像的象征物。

你可以说翟倞的作品是关于我们状态决定行为的人类，我们的处境和属性；关于我们中已经获得成功的一部分人，并通过他们的创造，力量或再生的可能来超越他人－－让那些人看起来更显苍白，注定消失在遗忘之中。

比安卡里格

Generic Life——About the work of Zhai Liang

To Zhai Liang nothing is dead knowledge, but all alive and brilliant and full of importance to our lives. Meticulously he digs through the history of his and other countries, constantly on the lookout for figures, words, moments, that have not been shone on by the bright light of remembrance but rather been dragged along in the shadow of the former. A nameless servant of some king, a smell, a playboy poet whose fame got swept away by the change of dynasties, leaving him penniless and reminiscing about his former glamorous life in Hangzhou, where the fish taste best.

Even as a child, Liang says, he was interested in figures not showered in the feedback of the crowd, because, he explains, losers live in unheroic details, whereas heroes live heroic lives. So he constructs his paintings out of a nostalgia for the forgotten, they are covered with the marks of time and yet beyond the sentimental. There is no trace of commiserating in the paintings, his figures might seem tribulating but not like individuals; they seem to stand for something - they are portraits of human beings in their symbolic quality.

You could say that Zhai Liangs work is about us humans who behave according to their status, their situation, their function; with some of us succeeding now and then through our creativity, strength or birth to excel above others - only to leave them looking even more pale and doomed to fade into forgottenness.

Bianca Regle