符号·记忆·共情——博物馆展示中面孔墙的使用

Symbol, Memory and Empathy: The Use of Wall of Faces in Museum Exhibition

面孔墙是博物馆经常使用的一种展示手段,一般是将整面墙壁作为布景,在墙上有规律地铺陈群体或个体的肖像。通常,面孔墙在纪念馆中使用较多,往往以罹难者照片墙、名人肖像墙的形式出现,在其他类型博物馆中亦有应用的实例。在面孔墙中,人物的面孔被符号化,成为过去历史或社区当下的见证,观众通过想象构建自己的个人体验,完成与其表征群体的共情。但这一过程往往伴随着个体记忆的消解,重构的记忆被纳入博物馆自身的叙事体系。

The wall of faces is a means that is often used by museums to display. Generally speaking, the entire wall is used as a set, and a portrait of a group or individual is regularly arranged on the wall. Usually, the wall of faces is used more in the memorial hall, which is often displayed in the form of the photo wall of the victims and the portraits of the celebrities, and there is also the applied case in other types of museums. With regard to the wall of faces, the faces of the characters are symbolized to be the witness of the past history or the current community, and the audience can conceive their own personal experience by imagination and complete the empathy with the representation group. However, this process is often accompanied by the dissolution of individual memory, and the reconstructed memory is incorporated into the museum’s own narrative system.