27.05.19 — 19.06.19

Cheng Xinhao: There They Return Again

Presenting:

There They Return Again, 3-channel video, 2019
40’03”, black and white, sound

About the artwork

Village N, locates on the border area where Mang people live, is situated on the foot of the boundary mountain between China and Vietnam. During the rainy season, trees are pushed out of the ferocious flooded river and washed up to the village downstream because of the mountain torrents caused by monsoon rain. On the 22nd March 2019, from the evening to the morning of the next day, I was carrying a trunk swept down the river in mountain torrents, following the river up and taking it back to the headwaters nourished by a fall. It is where the borderline crosses.

About artist

Cheng Xinhao was born in Yunnan (China) in 1985. He received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Peking University in 2013. He is working as an artist in Yunnan now. With videos, installations and article writing, his works investigate the issues in the modernization, the construction of knowledge as well as the production of space in Chinese society. He also adopts his body as a medium to build the connection between personal affect and specific historical narratives and places.