Towards Evenings: The Restoration
A long-term project often requires the artist to collect a large amount of material, conduct extensive research, integrate multiple parts, and test different methods through trial and error over an extended period of time. Every step forward is usually followed by two steps back; this painstaking process tends to distort the artist’s sense of time, which could feel like an indistinguishable mass before the project is complete. By restoring the different stages of creation periodically, the artist is able to mark the critical points and even re-adjust her coordinates accordingly. This parallel project serves as a documentation of the artist’s constant self-adjustment throughout a long-term project.
The restorations completed to date: Peer to Peer, Shanghai Center of Photography, Shanghai, 2019; Anyball, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, 2017; Snacks, The Power Station of Art, Shanghai, 2016; Linguistic Pavilion, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, 2016
向晚六章：对创作现场的还原
长期项目的创作往往涉及持久且大量的收集、研究、整合与试错。在进一步退两步的折返跑中，创作者需要日常去克服时间感的失调，而其中最为典型的症状即，将作品完成前的所有时间一概视作没有区别的时间。为了给这些混沌的时间以区别，借以标记创作的进度、调校自己的坐标，艺术家不定时地在展览空间里对《向晚六章》的创作现场进行还原。此举亦记录了一个长期计划在自我修订过程里不居的面貌。
目前已完成：“后浪”，上海摄影艺术中心，上海，2019；“球场”，中央美术学院美术馆，北京，2017；“零食”，上海当代艺术博物馆，上海，2016；“语言亭”，民生现代美术馆，上海，2016
