　　世界总有遗憾，她们常被批判，理解与冰释总是姗姗来迟，于是她们变得越发坚强。发声者不是观念和标准的代言人，她们接受，但不盲从;她们世俗，但不取悦。透过浮光，看到世事的沧桑，感受内心的满足：在光怪陆离的世界里，不屑于站队道德立场，只做纯粹的自己。有梦，但无需太大，要成功，但美在更多可能性。任由心动，凝视人生。
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.

　　女性需要一种全新的生存文化，让她们的生命之旅享有更多机会，和多样性。那么，该如何打造这种文化?相信最重要的，是必须与朋友、同事、家人携起手来，共同打造一个全新的文化社区——既认可现有文化提出的远大目标，又承认实现目标的途径不止一条。无论如何，当下社会对女性的要求都要更高。有一个故事，一个5岁的小女孩参加完课外活动后，沮丧地回到家，跟妈妈说她和她喜欢的男孩都想当宇航员，妈妈不明白为什么这会让她困扰。小女孩回答说，如果我们一起上太空了，谁来照顾我们的孩子呢?一个5岁的孩子，就已经认为飞上太空最大的挑战就是如何照看孩子了。女孩在很小的时候，就明白今后要在发展事业和照顾家庭之间做出选择，这种想法，将决定女性在事业上是否能够全力以赴。养儿育女，就是养育社会本身，是一项崇高但是没有收益的事业。社会由家庭组成，使家庭和谐，女人起到重要作用，社会因此和谐。女性的特质，使她们更崇高，并成为一种宗教：女性是爱情的火种，是家庭的根基，是未来的摇篮。即便如此，社会一方面对女性是宽容的，另一方面也是苛责的，她们常感进退两难。
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，但拒绝完美主义。自我克制，但不隐藏真实的自我。不为迎合他人的肯定目光，而去学习自我伪装。即使她们明明知道，女性哲学、女性语言学、女性宗教和女性政治，都需要女性即要考虑男性的感受，又要照顾内心的需求，来建构属于自己的独特文化。
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.

　　世界需要艺术，艺术需要女性。女性具有与男性同等的智力和创造能力，女性情感细腻，沟通能力更强，而为了成为艺术家，女性需要坚持不懈，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来自外界，更多的是自己制造的内心障碍。来，让我们一起，向前一步，找到可以安放内心的群体，彼此轻松惬意的相处，以沙龙的形式自由探讨艺术、文化、时尚、哲学等话题，让更多的人了解女性和女性艺术家，从而更好的平衡事业和生活，这是本次展览的意义所在。
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.

　　一方面接受世俗禁锢，一方面肩负社会期望，女性们迎难而上，毫不退缩。所谓岁月静好，即是冷暖自知，悲欢自渡。这，也是《逆光与凝望》所表达的精神内核。
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.”