Prospects, 2019
Digital Video, 4:20, 1920 x 1080px
Prospects is a combined installation of projecting a video on a painting.
I had a few questions for my friends three years ago(2016). I asked them how they grew up – what did they do when they were kids. What kind of games they played with siblings and childhood friends, and the food – what did they eat in their memories?
Many of us are from different regions, and now we are living in New York City. I was wondering what brought us to this moment and wanted to present them through Prospects.
Prospects is my personal opinion that we live as multiple-dimensional individuals. We keep the “old parts” of ourselves, which are from our “backgrounds”. At the same time, we are keeping developing “new parts” to adapt to this city life. This process creates forms. I’m wondering if we are reforming ourselves, or if it is the surroundings that make us be – If we created the forms, or if they had been there always.
《景色》是基于绘画和视频的组合装置。当我们想要知道自己是谁时,我冒出来一些想法:多面角色的独立体。
三年前我向身边的朋友们提出了一些问题。我问他们如何成长,年幼的他们都做些什么——他们都和兄弟姐妹及朋友们玩一些什么样的游戏,他们在家乡又都吃一些什么食物。有趣的是,我们来自不同的地方,但现在我们都生活在纽约。我很好奇是什么把我们聚集到了这一刻,并想通过《景色》来找寻一丝答案。
《景色》是我的关于“多面角色独立体”观点的探索和展示。我们既保留了来自过去的“旧的”自我,同时我们也在不断地生长出“新的”自我来适应周遭的变化。
我们存在于不同的形态里。此时此刻我想知道,使我们自己进行了这些“变形”,还是周围的环境使得我们“变形”。是我们创造了这些“形态”,还是这些“形态”从一开始就存在在那儿。
Exhibited:
INTERSTICE 夾縫, March 2019, Parasol Projects, New York, NY 10013, USA