2012↗
Shanshui
From a distance, a landscape. Up close, photographs made at different times and positions.
Selected works2010 / Photography, light box
Four-Dimensional People
Bodies are assembled from separate views, holding traces of walking, reading and working.
- Artist
- He Fa
- Date
- December 2010
- Recorded dimensions
- 512 × 512 mm
- Recorded medium
- Light box
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Images and presentation
The portfolio presents Four-Dimensional People as six square images. People appear in streets, beside trees or indoors, walking, reading, working at a desk or handling a camera. Bodies and surrounding objects are divided into rectangular photographs. Heads, torsos, hands and legs do not necessarily share a continuous edge; the backgrounds also unfold across blocks and fragments.
An individual figure remains recognizable, yet the pieces are not joined into a seamless portrait. The images retain traces of action, details of objects and the boundaries of separate frames at once. The title page records a light-box work measuring 512 × 512 mm, dated December 2010. It does not name the people in the six images, and no names are assigned here.
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Archive note
Based on pages 36–37 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
Four-Dimensional People, 2010. Photography, light box. He Fa’s role: Artist: He Fa.
- Work / series
- Four-Dimensional People
- Date
- 2010
- Medium
- Photography, light box
- He Fa’s role
- Artist: He Fa
- Catalogue section
- Early explorations
Cite this record: Four-Dimensional People · 2010 · Artist: He Fa · https://hefa.p4theater.cn/en/work/siweiren
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Body and presence
Bodies that do not fit seamlessly
Four-Dimensional PeopleHamlet’s Mirror
Four-Dimensional People retains bodily displacements through rectangular photographs; Hamlet’s Mirror returns projection to a living body. The former fixes its seams, while obstruction in the latter happens anew through performance.
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- Work imageImages and presentation ↗
Pages 36–37 of the early portfolio contain this series; in the first image, the body, chair and objects are assembled from misaligned rectangular photographs.
- Artist’s statementProjection and performance ↗
The portfolio statement identifies the interaction of performer, large screen and projection, grounding the comparison of bodily obstruction and images projected back onto a body.
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Keeping and losing
How many fragments make a person
Four-Dimensional PeoplePersonal Chronicle / PHA
Four-Dimensional People divides gestures and surroundings into photographic fragments; Personal Chronicle connects a narrated past with ambitions. Both organize fragments of a person without thereby standing in for an entire life.
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- Work imageImages and presentation ↗
Pages 36–37 of the early portfolio contain this series; in the first image, the body, chair and objects are assembled from misaligned rectangular photographs.
- Period documentHow the project is structured ↗
The 2023 text Theatre and Fear proposes a two-to-five-hour personal interview, retained records and subsequent project initiation.
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