Where are you now?
Where do you live? Where is your live?
Where Are You Now?,2022
Rubbing on Chinese mulberry paper
35cm x 250cm
This is a construction site near my apartment (in China) and I have been following it since it started construction. I have been watching it almost since it started. In the city whereI live, there are many construction sites, mostly housing estates and subways, but there are few opportunities to observe the construction process of a tall building for a long time.
I took hundreds of photos of the changing lights of the apartment building opposite my bedroom, and then sifted them into a single photo. In these photos, each one was a composite of about 150 photos. They end up looking like patterned and mechanized circuit boards, creating a surreal visual effect. And I mixed in some photos taken through a window that reflected the light in my room and even a partial silhouette of me. They show the location of the photographer, which I think is a kind of reality and presence (Anwesen).
Where Are You Now?,2022
Digital Print, 69*96cm
The work is made up of 156 photographs and also includes some digital paintings.
These photos were taken of the residential building opposite my bedroom, and I have long recorded its changes at night, including lights and people. The digital painting in the picture records the construction process of the nearby construction site.
I'm bringing these two together, trying to create a kind of internal correlation between what's already built and in use and what's under construction. People who live in buildings that are already built may rarely think about where their present reality came from. I was intrigued by the implicit relevance of reality.
Where Are You Now?,2022
Moving Images
This video is made up of a number of still photographs.
The lights change seemingly controlled by the noise in the background, but in reality we all know that the lights in a room turn on because someone has gone home and turn off because someone has left.
Hidden in the patches of light and the scattered buildings are specific people.