上海外滩美术馆在展览“伟大的掩饰”展期内推出了一系列专家导览。这些导览汇聚了来自上海及国际的学者、研究人员和文化从业者，深入探讨展览的核心议题，包括黑人性、女性主义、革命历史，以及“黑人激进传统”与中国之间的跨文化交流，并为观众开辟理解展览作品的新路径。这些导览介于讲座与现场导览之间，为展览注入了动态的思辨能量，帮助观众看到展览的智性韵律。
第四期学者专场导览由上海外滩美术馆与拾壹基金会（Octone Foundation）合作策划，特别邀请策展人、文化学者与作家沈奇岚（Shen Qilan）担任导览学者。在本次导览中，沈奇岚博士将围绕掩饰与叙事这一核心议题。伟大的掩饰来自于被掩饰之物的品质，以及掩饰手段的含金量。艺术是一种掩饰与揭示并存的方式，本次专场导览意图与观众一同进入关于感知、记忆与叙事伦理的探讨。探讨审美实践与历史的关系——感知不是被动接收，而是训练自己去看见被美、被形式、被叙事遮蔽的历史，去看清记忆被塑造的过程。在叙事中，故事和暴力的关系互相博弈，重新书写有其巡回往复。这次导览中，我们将一同体验这份“伟大的掩饰”的方法论。艺术让我们重新感知，重新校准我们身处的历史时间。艺术是我们今天重新进入历史的方法和路径之一。
此系列学者专场导览由拾壹基金会特别支持。
Rockbund Art Museum is pleased to announce a series of specialist guided tours for The Great Camouflage. Bringing together academics, researchers, and cultural workers from Shanghai and internationally, these specialists will give tours that will expand upon the exhibition's key themes of Blackness, feminism, revolutionary history, and the intercultural exchange between the Black Radical Tradition and China, as well as open up new ways of engaging with and understanding the works on view. Somewhere between a lecture and a walkthrough, these specialist tours provide a dynamic discursive energy that punctuates, intensifies, and refines the intellectual rhythms of the exhibition.
For the fourth iteration of these tours, Rockbund Art Museum in collaboration with Octone Foundation, is pleased to welcomethe writer, curator, and scholar Dr Shen Qilan. In this tour, Shen turns towards thinking about camouflage and narrativisation as aesthetic and political methods, ethics, and ways of seeing. If the ingenuity of camouflage is found in how successfully forms of resistance are concealed, Shen asks us to consider how art is a tool that both shields and reveals; that is, how art can operate as both a veil and that which trembles beneath it. In addition, Shen will focus on the obfuscatory nature of beauty: what narratives it often seeks to forget, the memories it withholds, and the necessity of breaking open paths back into history.
This series of specialist tours is made possible through the generous support of the Octone Foundation.