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裂隙岩|Into the Rift

高清影像 / Hd video / 17:05 / 2019-2023

影像作品《裂隙岩》通过图像、文本与数字化材料，探讨记忆在媒介与时间尺度下的断裂与重写。影片由三个连续递进又往复的层级构成，每一段都对应着不同的时间尺度与感知层级。作品的起点源于我在追踪一名越狱逃亡者-徐洪慈所遗留痕迹的过程中产生的思考转向。与其试图还原事件经过，不如关注这些痕迹如何在媒介与时间中被保存、偏移与失效。

作品中的部分图像选用了徐洪慈平反后回到苦役所在地拍摄的照片。在这儿，摄影与文本作为存留记忆的基本媒介手段显露出其本身的脆弱，就像我用三维扫描所获得的公园影像。数字化残片在这里既指向技术对空间的重构，也暗示记忆本身的碎片化状态。

作品中个体生命经验的再现退居为背景，逃亡故事不再作为叙事的主题，而成为了一个触发点，使影像从具体事件滑向抽象的时间问题。影片中的航拍图像记录了广袤的地质景观，也记录了近在咫尺的记忆痕迹。化石，盐湖，戈壁与火山遗迹无不在提醒着我们人类记忆的短暂与不稳定性。《裂隙岩》并不试图给出结论，而是通过影片结构本身，使得记忆在不同的媒介与时间尺度中相互碰撞，不断重写又被不断拉开。

裂隙岩 / 截图/Into the Rift / stills

裂隙岩 / 截图/Into the Rift / stills

裂隙岩 / 截图/Into the Rift / stills

裂隙岩 / 截图/Into the Rift / stills

The video work Into the Rift explores the rupture and rewriting of memory across media and temporal scales through images, text, and digital materials. The film is structured in three consecutive yet recursive layers, each corresponding to a distinct temporal and perceptual level.The project originates from a shift in my thinking while tracing the traces left by an escaped prisoner, Xu Hongci. Rather than attempting to reconstruct the course of events, the work focuses on how these traces are preserved, displaced, or rendered ineffective through media and time.

Some of the images in the work are drawn from photographs taken by Xu Hongci upon revisiting the site of forced labor following his posthumous rehabilitation. Here, photography and text, as primary means of retaining memory, reveal their inherent fragility, much like the park imagery obtained through my 3D scanning. These digital fragments simultaneously point to the technological reconstruction of space and the inherent fragmentation of memory itself.

Individual life experiences recede into the background, and the escape narrative no longer functions as the story’s primary subject. Instead, it serves as a trigger, allowing the imagery to move from specific events toward abstract temporal questions. Aerial footage in the film captures both expansive geological landscapes and close-range traces of memory. Fossils, salt lakes, deserts, and volcanic formations collectively highlight the transience and instability of human memory. Into the Rift does not seek to provide conclusions; rather, through the structure of the film itself, memory is made to collide across different media and temporal scales, continuously rewritten and continuously expanded.

裂隙岩 / 截图/Into the Rift / stills

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“每一次沉默都是隐蔽空间” 美凯龙艺术中心“花厅计划”现场

All Silence Is A Hidden Space, exhibition view at The Cloisters Project support by Maclline Art Center

摄影：叶枫荻

Photo by Fengdi Ye