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From a distance, a landscape. Up close, photographs made at different times and positions.
Selected works2011 / Photography, light box
Illusion
Six bodily gestures appear suspended against a white field.
- Artist
- He Fa
- Date
- September–October 2011
- Recorded dimensions
- 400 × 520 mm
- Recorded medium
- Light box
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Images and presentation
The portfolio presents Illusion as six vertical photographs, arranged in pairs across three pages. A continuous white background leaves no visible ground, support or clear spatial boundary. Hair, arms and bent legs indicate different directions of movement; changes in posture distinguish one photograph from the next.
Placed beside one another, the photographs allow one arrested gesture to be compared with another. They offer moments of movement, but the portfolio does not number them as successive steps. The title page dates the light-box work to September–October 2011 and records dimensions of 400 × 520 mm. All six photographs are presented here as separate images.
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Archive note
Based on pages 2–5 of the 38-page portfolio 何发-作品小汇. Title, date, dimensions and medium follow the original title page. Images were extracted independently from the PDF and retain their full compositions. The English title is a translation or transliteration for this website, not a verified historical English title.
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Work record
Illusion, 2011. Photography, light box. He Fa’s role: Artist: He Fa.
- Work / series
- Illusion
- Date
- 2011
- Medium
- Photography, light box
- He Fa’s role
- Artist: He Fa
- Catalogue section
- Early explorations
Cite this record: Illusion · 2011 · Artist: He Fa · https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/huan
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Body and presence
When the body’s background returns
Illusion removes a clearly defined ground and support against white; Cocoon’s records retain rehearsal, falls and fatigue. Bodies become visible in both, while their conditions of production appear in contrasting ways.
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- Work imageImages and presentation ↗
The body in the first portfolio image is set against white, with no support visible; the photographs are not labelled as successive stages of motion.
- Period documentHow the work took shape ↗
He Fa’s text of 29 October 2020 and the November conversations preserve production records of recruitment, continuous rehearsals and bodily strain.
- Work imageImages and presentation ↗
Spaces transformed
Between blankness and crowding
Illusion separates poses from a setting through a white background; Iceberg places performers and spectators in a small office. Spatial cues recede in one, while obstruction and proximity become unavoidable conditions in the other.
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- Work imageImages and presentation ↗
The body in the first portfolio image is set against white, with no support visible; the photographs are not labelled as successive stages of motion.
- Event recordProject statement ↗
The event record specifies 1 January 2022, an office, eight makers and fifteen audience members, including crowding and obstruction as conditions of viewing.
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Body and presence
A surface appears; a body is seen
Touch touching retains a medium specification of projection-suitable surfaces; Illusion presents bodies against white in light boxes. Both make images visible through light, but their titles establish neither touch interaction nor a continuous movement sequence.
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- Period documentFrom photographs to a projectable image ↗
The portfolio records any projectable material and venue-dependent dimensions; the title alone does not establish touch interaction.
- Work imageImages and presentation ↗
The body in the first portfolio image is set against white, with no support visible; the photographs are not labelled as successive stages of motion.
- Period documentFrom photographs to a projectable image ↗
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