为什么马上信使一定要在马上?Why must the mounted messenger be mounted?

《为什么马上信使一定要在马上》是 Lucas Blalock 对自己二十年摄影实践的一次延展性回望与思考, 以近似 artist talk 与工作笔记的方式推进，让理论、故事与作品图像彼此牵引。对Lucas来说,摄影既是贯穿其生命经验的一条线索，也是一种我们共同使用的语言。沿着这条线索，他不断追问：在平台、数字工具与影像过剩的时代，照片究竟可以是什么，又如何承载真实的感受与经验。他反复回到“形式与即兴”的问题⸺借由戏剧、音乐、电影等例子，思考如何在既定形式中制造阻力、露出缝线，从而打开新的感受通道, 他也毫不吝啬的提起那些对他影响深远的艺术家及作品, 让观念的生成更像一张彼此缠结的生活之网，而不是一条线性的艺术史叙述。

Why must the mounted messenger be mounted? is a new book by Lucas Blalock offering an expanded meditation on the artist’s twenty-year involvement with photography. In it, Blalock charts the development of his photographic ideas as they run alongside a tangled web of accidents, influence, romance, anxiety, and work. It is a book about coming of age with a preoccupation alternately in full bloom and on its last legs. The volume also reproduces many of Blalock’s own photographs and artworks by his peers and influences. -Publisher

The Chinese edition is produced by Stasis Space and published in 2026.