Yifei Gong

HD video projection with sound, Acrylic tubes, LED Lights
09'55"

//
Time, space and identity are collapsing.
People live, perform, interact, be watched and manipulated.
The real becomes unreal.
The fantasy becomes reality.
The only thing that make sense is the absurdity.
What’s the connection between the past and the present?
what’s the way to the future?
If there is one.
 
//
Focusing on the environment of shipping mall, the work Images falling to the other side explores ideas of uniformity, connection, emptiness, artificiality, memory, performative identity and capitalism. The shopping mall, treated as a meeting point, reflects the current living condition of human beings. It is an intersection that all kinds of people get entangled with each other and also the connection between memory and fantasy.
 
The video, an audio-visual collage of found and shot footage together with VHS footage filmed by the artist's family more than twenties years ago, takes viewers travel back and forth through the past, the present and the future trying to understand how self-presentation is manipulated by cultural and social context. As the identity become fluidity, the way to the future is unknown.