Installation/Film

 

I am creating a worldview for L’Inferno, which revolves around memory and my dreams. In this process, my family history, especially my complex and tangled relationship with my family and my own characteristics, has become an important part of my inner exploration. In order to discover the years of mental trance, synesthesia and depression, I keep looking back. Every time I call up a specific picture from the ”hard drive“ in my mind, the appearance is different. So, is it still the same memory? Is it really just a one-time experience? Is the memory being tampered with by my brain over time? Or is each time I recall it, I am actually visiting another different and similar dream?

 

In L'INFERNO II, I try to repeatedly explore the concept of ”archive“ in a direct way. It is no longer possible for me to fully reconstruct the past moments that are crucial to me. Those unknown objects that are similar to those in dreamscan be touched and collected, and become essential to my accumulation of memories. Through these objects, I create a fragment of reality with a mythical color, allowing memories to be concrete in the world. Although the installation records my own troubled dreams, it touches on a wider range of resonances: memories that span different cultural backgrounds and eras, the design and practical value of everyday objects, and where the things we leave behind will eventually go. Many viewers can find shadows of objects that once belonged to them, which evokes dusty memories.

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In the creative process, I am dominated by dreams and memories to express a kind of illusion that manipulates the past, repairs the present, and preserves the future. I have an almost obsessive obsession with revisiting the same memory over and over again. In my dreams, these images are constantly changing and evolving. Every time I go back to the past, the details and scenes will change subtly or dramatically. And in this process, a series of imagined coincidences and accidents allow these installations to emerge and become reality.

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