Déjà vu

2023-24, loop, mixed media installation

16mm film, sound, clay, iron oxide

Thirty meters of metal wire were directly exposed onto thirty meters of film negative. Here, the metal wire may be read in all its ambivalence: as a device for entrapment, or as a tool of contact...

The booming bass rhythm derived from 2022 protest chants in China—erased of words—interrupts the narrator’s voice, which interweaves memories of physical injury and other embodied experience...

Like a déjà vu of sorts, this question also resurfaces in a clay replica of a precious Qing dynasty calligraphy brush rest that sits on the window frame.

Commissioned by Kevin Space and Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo