　　世界總有遺憾，她們常被批判，理解與冰釋總是姍姍來遲，于是她們變得越發(fā)堅(jiān)強(qiáng)。發(fā)聲者不是觀念和標(biāo)準(zhǔn)的代言人，她們接受，但不盲從;她們世俗，但不取悅。透過浮光，看到世事的滄桑，感受內(nèi)心的滿足：在光怪陸離的世界里，不屑于站隊(duì)道德立場，只做純粹的自己。有夢(mèng)，但無需太大，要成功，但美在更多可能性。任由心動(dòng)，凝視人生。
The world looms with regrets. She, the tar-get of crit-i-cisms, is forged strong by her con-stant encoun-ters of belat-ed under-stand-ing. The one who speaks, is not emblem-at-ic of con-cepts and stan-dards. She acknowl-edges but does not con-form. She lives in the mun-dane but remains unseized. Look-ing-be-yond the vicis-si-tudes of the world and through its glis-ten-ing lights, she-feels her heart graced by seren-i-ty. She stands unhinged on moral grounds,attests to her-self in this tan-gled world. She embraces all aspirations,regardless of the mag-ni-tude; and looks for-ward to suc-cess for the wealth ofprospects it car-ries. The heart stirs unat-tached while the gaze rests upon-life.

　　女性需要一種全新的生存文化，讓她們的生命之旅享有更多機(jī)會(huì)，和多樣性。那么，該如何打造這種文化?相信最重要的，是必須與朋友、同事、家人攜起手來，共同打造一個(gè)全新的文化社區(qū)——既認(rèn)可現(xiàn)有文化提出的遠(yuǎn)大目標(biāo)，又承認(rèn)實(shí)現(xiàn)目標(biāo)的途徑不止一條。無論如何，當(dāng)下社會(huì)對(duì)女性的要求都要更高。有一個(gè)故事，一個(gè)5歲的小女孩參加完課外活動(dòng)后，沮喪地回到家，跟媽媽說她和她喜歡的男孩都想當(dāng)宇航員，媽媽不明白為什么這會(huì)讓她困擾。小女孩回答說，如果我們一起上太空了，誰來照顧我們的孩子呢?一個(gè)5歲的孩子，就已經(jīng)認(rèn)為飛上太空最大的挑戰(zhàn)就是如何照看孩子了。女孩在很小的時(shí)候，就明白今后要在發(fā)展事業(yè)和照顧家庭之間做出選擇，這種想法，將決定女性在事業(yè)上是否能夠全力以赴。養(yǎng)兒育女，就是養(yǎng)育社會(huì)本身，是一項(xiàng)崇高但是沒有收益的事業(yè)。社會(huì)由家庭組成，使家庭和諧，女人起到重要作用，社會(huì)因此和諧。女性的特質(zhì)，使她們更崇高，并成為一種宗教：女性是愛情的火種，是家庭的根基，是未來的搖籃。即便如此，社會(huì)一方面對(duì)女性是寬容的，另一方面也是苛責(zé)的，她們常感進(jìn)退兩難。
Women need a new liv-ing con-struct; one-suf-fice of oppor-tu-ni-ties and diver-si-ty for their life jour-neys. The ques-tio-n-is, how? It is cru-cial to enlist help from fel-low peers, col-leagues, and kin-sto estab-lish a new com-mu-ni-ty for this cul-ture— one which iden-ti-fies with thecom-mon goal pro-posed by our cur-rent cul-ture and agrees that there are mul-ti-plepath-ways to real-ize this. After all, the mod-ern every-woman is des-tined with-overt-ly high expec-ta-tions from soci-ety. There is an anec-dote to this— afive-year-old girl appeared deject-ed after return-ing home from her school-cur-ric-u-lar activ-i-ty. She told her moth-er about her and her crush’s dreams tobe-come astro-nauts. Her moth-er did not under-stand why that would upset her. Towhich the girl replied, “if we are in space togeth-er, who would be there-to look after our child?” At the ten-ta-tive age of 5, the girl fig-ures the-great-est chal-lenge that awaits her in space is actu-al-ly her role of parental-re-spon-si-bil-i-ties. At a young age, girls already under-stand that their deci-sion-be-tween career and fam-i-ly would ulti-mate-ly deter-mine the extent of theird-e-vo-tion toward their career. The aspect of rais-ing a child is equiv-a-lent torais-ing soci-ety itself; it is a noble task for a non-com-pens-able cause. When welook at our soci-ety, the fam-i-ly func-tions as its basic unit, and since wom-en-hold the key to cul-ti-vat-ing fam-i-ly har-mo-ny, they are the ones who ensure our-so-ci-ety’s sta-bil-i-ty and well-being. In essence, it is their inher-ent fem-i-ninequal-i-ty that makes them noble and divine. They are the spark to pas-sion, the-foun-da-tion to fam-i-ly, and the cra-dle to the future. Nev-er-the-less, soci-ety’s-para-dox-i-cal treat-ment toward women— being benev-o-lent and crit-i-cal— has ren-deredthem into a state of immo-bil-i-ty.

　　追求完美，但拒絕完美主義。自我克制，但不隱藏真實(shí)的自我。不為迎合他人的肯定目光，而去學(xué)習(xí)自我偽裝。即使她們明明知道，女性哲學(xué)、女性語言學(xué)、女性宗教和女性政治，都需要女性即要考慮男性的感受，又要照顧內(nèi)心的需求，來建構(gòu)屬于自己的獨(dú)特文化。
Wom-en’s pur-suit ofthe ide-al is nev-er about per-fec-tion-ism. Nor is their sense of self-mod-u-la-tio-nan attempt to hide their true selves. Instead of oth-ers’ val-i-da-tion, they-choose to dis-guise them-selves despite know-ing all too well that in an effort tobuild a cul-ture unique-ly theirs, they face a rig-or-ous equa-tion of cater-ing tothe male ego and rein-forc-ing their own needs across the dis-course ofphi-los-o-phy, gen-dered lan-guage stud-ies, reli-gion, and pol-i-tics.

　　世界需要藝術(shù)，藝術(shù)需要女性。女性具有與男性同等的智力和創(chuàng)造能力，女性情感細(xì)膩，溝通能力更強(qiáng)，而為了成為藝術(shù)家，女性需要堅(jiān)持不懈，并付出比男性更多的努力。
The world need-sArt as much as Art needs women. Both men and women share the same lev-el ofin-tel-li-gence and inno-v-a-tive-ness; in any case, it is women who are moreemo-tion-al-ly sen-su-al and elo-quent in their com-mu-nica-tive abil-i-ties. Yet, unliketheir male coun-ter-parts, female artists are tried much more for their-per-se-ver-ance, resilience and hard work.

　　女性最大的阻力不是來自外界，更多的是自己制造的內(nèi)心障礙。來，讓我們一起，向前一步，找到可以安放內(nèi)心的群體，彼此輕松愜意的相處，以沙龍的形式自由探討藝術(shù)、文化、時(shí)尚、哲學(xué)等話題，讓更多的人了解女性和女性藝術(shù)家，從而更好的平衡事業(yè)和生活，這是本次展覽的意義所在。
Her biggesto-b-sta-cle comes not from exter-nal forces; rather, she is haunt-ed by her ownan-guish. Hence, in light of this exhi-bi-tion, let us come togeth-er and ven-ture-for-ward in the search for a warm and wel-com-ing col-lec-tive, where we can-con-verse at ease about Art, cul-ture, fash-ion, and phi-los-o-phy in the form of asa-lon, advo-cate a bet-ter under-stand-ing of the female iden-ti-ty and femaleartists for the pub-lic, and there-by achieve a fin-er bal-ance between career andlifestyle.

　　一方面接受世俗禁錮，一方面肩負(fù)社會(huì)期望，女性們迎難而上，毫不退縮。所謂歲月靜好，即是冷暖自知，悲歡自渡。這，也是《逆光與凝望》所表達(dá)的精神內(nèi)核。
Women arerisk-tak-ers who can bear the dif-fi-cul-ties of sec-u-lar con-fine-ments and soci-ety’-s-ex-pec-ta-tions with great for-ti-tude. In the tran-quil-ness of pass-ing time, per-hap-son-ly the indi-vid-ual who wit-ness-es his/her own eclipse could savour thebit-ter-sweet-ness that dwells with-in. Such is, thus, the spir-i-tu-al core of “Incan-des-cence and in Gaze.”