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Nobody's Return

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Two-channel moving image, spatial sound and performance text

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I have returned. This place does not recognize me.

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Does returning to a place mean belonging to it again?

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Sizeng. Zengcheng. Yucen.

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Three people enter the same forest, but do not share a single memory.

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One person leaves. Another body is still waiting.

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Doors, paper, glass and water retain traces that cannot be returned to one person.

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Daylight guarantees no truth. Night belongs to more than dreams.

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Let bodies stay and leave in their own time, without reversing their movement.

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Two times coexist without becoming one.

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Excerpts juxtaposed for reference, not a substitute for the installation.

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One time has not ended. Another has already begun.

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An overlay crosses the cut. An earlier experience continues to occupy the present.

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Look toward one side and temporarily lose the other.

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Turning, approaching and staying become part of seeing.

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Sound does not always confirm what is visible.

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Hour-long image loops meet an independent 37-minute, 17-second sound loop.

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The difficulty of return does not end with arrival.

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After returning, how do you recognize home, and how does it recognize you?

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This is still the same place. Yet I cannot prove it.

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The work keeps this fracture open, rather than forcing traces into a single truth.

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One person’s leaving is recorded on another person’s waist.

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Thirteen sections displace bodies, desire, calculation and the speaking self.

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Can a memory leave the body it came from?

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Let image, sound and body keep their own accounts, including their disagreements.

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Coming back does not end the story.

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He Fa: moving image, text and spatial concept. He Yu: proposed performance collaboration.