Single channel 4k video, color, stereo channel, 06’58’’, 2025

 

These gestures, rooted in the craft of handmade papermaking, have, through the gradual decline of labor and the continual reinterpretation and fading of memory, become echoes of history. Like rhythmic remnants of melodies dispersed across different historical moments, these movements are preserved through generational repetition, and gradually become abstracted in the act of repetition itself.

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By capturing gestures shaped and polished by time, the work uses the movement of hands as a passage to explore how individuals store and transmit knowledge within the fissures of history. It seeks to construct a non-verbal sense of time and an abstract narrative through a form of memory that resides deep within the body.