Study / Photography
Photography studies
Studied photography at the School of Design, Central Academy of Fine Arts, took part in the Sino-Dutch photography exchange exhibition Tangled, and completed Mountain Beyond Mountains in 2012.
2008—PRESENT / CHRONOLOGY
A chronology from2008 to the present
Photography studies, Gewu Studio, P4 Theatre, live projects and Human Surrender Faction, arranged by year. Entries with arrows open project pages.
Photography
Mountain Beyond Mountains
The work recomposes many partial photographs into landscape. Mountain Beyond Mountains — Red and White entered the CAFA Art Museum collection.
Studio
Gewu Studio
He Fa participated in co-founding Gewu Studio, working on the market side and contributing to design discussions. The studio-period 3D-printed lighting work Twelve Water Lamps was created by Song Bowen.
Theatre
P4 Theatre founded
Beginning in Beijing, P4 organizes performances, workshops, filming, writing and collective production in non-standard sites.
Study / Collective project
Intermedia advanced-study program
Participated in the advanced-study collective project The Great Chain of Being: Planet Trilogy at the School of Intermedia Art, China Academy of Art.
Study / Fine Arts
Fine Arts MFA-stage study, California College of the Arts
Undertook Fine Arts MFA-stage study at California College of the Arts and participated in the 2018 MFA Thesis Exhibition.
Solo exhibition
fafalish library
Simpson Library, San Francisco, USA.
Exhibition
MFA Thesis Exhibition, Part 1
Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, USA.
P4 project
Howler on the Rooftop
Beginning with workshops, personal narratives and role rehearsal, the project brings private emotion onto a rooftop and into the city’s field of view.
P4 project
Iceberg
Eight makers and fifteen spectators enter a close, cellular relation inside a sixteen-square-metre office. He Fa served as producer.
P4 project
Purple Action
A boxing-gym project combining bodily action, immersive theatre and public participation.
P4 project
Love Theatre / Accusing the Love Centrists
Reality format, documentary, live filming and audience feedback meet in one live situation. He Fa served as co-producer.
Film
Human Surrender Faction
An approximately 156-minute film drawn from P4’s long-term rehearsals, shared life and filming process; semi-finalist at Boden International Film Festival.
Publication
P4 Theatre: A Generative University, a Winding Labyrinth, a Hard Drive Inscribed with Life
Published in Humanities China, Issue 1, 2025, looking back on a decade of P4’s sites, performances, learning and shared life.
After the film
Sound, frames and short films from Human Surrender Faction
Continuing to work with voices, dialogue, film frames, Logic sessions, short films and writing drawn from the completed film.
In progress