One Day Distance

Video installation, Single channel 4k video, color, stereo channel, 34’01’’, 2024
In this work, the artist walks from the Houyang family to Niuzhuang, wearing a pair of high heels her grandmother never wore and her most commonly worn dress. In the anachronistic heels and the pain of continuous silence, the scenery at this moment is a silent witness of the past. The geographical changes of reality are reflected in the gaze of the imagination and the invisible history, while the back and forth of the music are the thoughts of ‘her’, whether far or near.
This twenty-eight-kilometer begins at sunrise at six in the morning and ends at sunset at six in the evening. The distance traveled is from the Houyang family in Tai'an County to Niuzhuang in Haicheng, which is also the distance from the artist's grandmother's birthplace in the 1930s to her future husband's home, whom she has never met. As she embarks on this journey, she has no imagination of the Central Plains of China over a thousand kilometers away, nor does she realize the different fates her family will face, scattered or lingering in various places.


Exhibition View
Ennova Art Museum, Beijing, 2025

