Polemoscope, Key or Transparency 

2022 | video | 33’

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Toilet in the living room, external elevators, water pipes behind one’s wardrobe …
A space that encourages undressing and invites nudity, a reversal structure of an anthropomorphic architectural body, and a structure that reflects on a topological inversion of the human body…
Skin, skeleton, viscera …
The space we live in is full of secrets, obsessions, and forbidden pleasures that are hidden just behind its attempts to project the image of a new normality ... [read more]


Timeless Time (series)

2022 | installation, video | dimension variable

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In the 24/7 spectacle, the references of time invalidate themselves, presenting a continuous homogeneous time without rhythm or indications. And the pandemic enhances this situation.

Farcility

2021 | site-specific installation | dimension variable


By searching for the bizarre and dysfunctional facilities within the city, this series of works examines the violence and absurdity that lie in them.  At present, the Facility series includes two works: a metro entrance (ready-made) and circular tactile paving (site-specific installation) ... [read more]



Everything Solid will be Ground into Dust

2021 | site-specific installation, video | 34’14

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The work consists of two parts: a site-specific installation and a video. The site-specific installation is a small section of wall, its bricks made of the dust of the exhibition site (a unoccupied commercial space in Shanghai). The video work records the process of dust collected from the site being pressed into a brick, and eventually returning to the state of dust under the influence of wind.

Dust contains spatial memory, internalizing various events, objects, and processes of human activities. As a collection of “debris”, dust is also one of the symbols of modern cities in both social and environmental aspects... [read more]


19 Days

 2019 | video installation | 8’30

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A girl encountered the emergence and passing of an intangible life form within 19 days, feeling anxious and alienated, she couldn't help calling a stranger and wondering where the "ants" came from.

© 2024 by Jin  Qiaoer