2009 / Photography, light box

Gathering

Tables, rooms and snow-covered ground form circular arrangements of distinct everyday scenes.

Artist: He Fa
Date: September 2009
Recorded dimensions: 512 × 512 mm
Recorded medium: Light box

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Images and presentation

The four images in Gathering share circular or sphere-like arrangements but contain different scenes. One gathers food, people and a room around a dining table. Another retains the purple light of an interior. The remaining images turn to a snowy courtyard and a room containing a person. Displaced edges, cuts and repetitions remain visible throughout.

No single central object organizes all of these scenes. Tables, walls, floors and people acquire different orientations through the assembled photographs. The images retain recognizable things while rearranging their usual spatial relationships. The portfolio dates the light-box work to September 2009, records dimensions of 512 × 512 mm, and places all four images under the title Gathering.

Works & details

Archive note

Based on pages 31–35 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

Gathering, 2009. Photography, light box. He Fa’s role: Artist: He Fa.

Work / series: Gathering
Date: 2009
Medium: Photography, light box
He Fa’s role: Artist: He Fa
Catalogue section: Early explorations

Cite this record: Gathering · 2009 · Artist: He Fa · https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/ju

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Working together
How tabletop things compose a world
Gathering Happiness Kingdom
Gathering assembles tables, people and rooms into surrounding images; Happiness Kingdom develops character relations from handmade figures. Both organize worlds through concrete things, while montage and shared object-making retain different authors.
2009 / Photography, light box
2023 / Collective puppet-making, role play and an evolving theatrical environment
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1. Work imageImages and presentation ↗
  In the first image, table, food, people and room fragments form an encircling composition, with directions changed by the collage.
2. Period documentEntering a role through making ↗
  Public materials from April–May 2023 describe collective puppet making, assigned personalities and role recruitment; individual roles and texts retain their own authors.
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Spaces transformed
One ring, different centres
Gathering YourTube
Gathering’s surrounding compositions reorient objects; YourTube joins six seats into a ring with tubing. Adjacency within an image and proximity between bodies do not guarantee that everyone looks toward the same place.
2009 / Photography, light box
2018 / Multi-screen video installation
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1. Work imageImages and presentation ↗
  In the first image, table, food, people and room fragments form an encircling composition, with directions changed by the collage.
2. Period documentInstallation instructions and playback ↗
  The saved installation instructions document switching on individual screens, media players and MP4 selection, and preserve the arrangement of screens, tubing and six connected stools.
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