2021

Close, Closer, 2020-21
Single channel HD video
Colour, sound
10:00 mins

Drawing from the artist’s mother Wang Qingli’s 1993 expedition to Lugu Lake in Yunnan, China, the video overlays drawings, archival images, historical paintings, texts and sounds to reimagine Wang’s Lugu Lake Paintings (1994), which were later sold and unable to be found. Structured as an intimate conversation between the artist and their mother, the film weaves together narratives around intimacy, settler colonialism, matriarchy, tourism and art market, accompanied by a soundtrack of construction noise, folk music and pop songs made by the artist. As the video tries to turn Wang's paintings from low res JEPGs to livingness, we also experience an uneasy interrogation of the complex notion of motherhood and motherland, both personal and collective.

The work was made after the artist and their mother stopped speaking to each other for almost two years. The artist approached their mother about making the work as a way of initiating a conversation in order to repair their relationship. During the period of preparation, the artist interviewed Wang through text message; meanwhile, the artist wrote notes about their mother and the art world from the artist’s childhood memory on a daily basis. 

Banal Objects/DIY Aesthetics: A Continuation of Decentralized Reality with Expanding Intimacy, 2021
OCAT Institute, Beijing
Installation view


Close, Closer, 2020-21
Single channel HD video
Colour, sound
10:00 mins

Banal Objects/DIY Aesthetics: A Continuation of Decentralized Reality with Expanding Intimacy, 2021
OCAT Institute, Beijing
Installation view


Close, Closer, 2020-21
Single channel HD video
Colour, sound
10:00 mins

Banal Objects/DIY Aesthetics: A Continuation of Decentralized Reality with Expanding Intimacy, 2021
OCAT Institute, Beijing
Installation view


Close, Closer, 2020-21
Single channel HD video
Colour, sound
10:00 mins

The Dwelling Place of the Other in Me, 2021
Power Station of Art, Shanghai
Installation view


Close, Closer, 2020-21
Single channel HD video
Colour, sound
10:00 mins

The Dwelling Place of the Other in Me, 2021
Power Station of Art, Shanghai
Installation view


Close, Closer, 2020-21
Single channel HD video
Colour, sound
10:00 mins


Close, Closer, 2020-21
Single channel HD video
Colour, sound
10:00 mins

Close, Closer, 2020-21
Single channel HD video
Colour, sound
10:00 mins


Close, Closer, 2020-21
Single channel HD video
Colour, sound
10:00 mins


Close, Closer, 2020-21
Single channel HD video
Colour, sound
10:00 mins

Close, Closer, 2020-21
Single channel HD video
Colour, sound
10:00 mins

Close, Closer, 2020-21
Single channel HD video
Colour, sound
10:00 mins

1815, 2019-20
Single channel HD video
Colour, sound
8:35 mins
 
The Perfect Flaw: Huayu Youth Art Award, 2021
Huayu Foundation / Sanya Art Centre, Sanya
Installation view

1815, 2019-20
Single channel HD video
Colour, sound
8:35 mins

The Perfect Flaw: Huayu Youth Art Award, 2021
Huayu Foundation / Sanya Art Centre, Sanya
Installation view