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Letters From the Room

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Exhibition View

Surplus Space, Wuhan, 2024

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HD Single-channel video installation, no sound, black and white, 3h45min, 2020

The late return journey, the irretrievable experience, and the prolonged wait for an unknown evoked the artist's imagination of her hometown and a search for her own identity.

 

When the artist returned to her hometown, placing herself in a room without any reference to time or electronic communication, the windows were covered with tin foil, heavy curtains blocked out the outside light, and the faint sounds outside the window were her only basis for judging time. In this room, she repeated the routine of waking up, writing, reading, eating simple meals, sleeping, and waiting. Across the bed, an infrared camera set to January 1, 2020, continuously recorded her daily life in this isolated room for 14 days.

Within a room where no one talks, the artist writes a letter every day to an unknown recipient, tucked out through the door and sent by her mother to one of her friends at random.

 

In which I, you, and she appeared in these letters, entwined on the border between real memory and fictional illusion, hidden between the words and her inaccessible past.

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