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Onlooking

Mixed media installation
2019
wood/light bulb/wig

Onlookers perform a collective act, gathering, watching, discussing...

They also engage in a psychological process (the psychological relationship between the observer and the observed), like my hair with my thoughts. I put them into a box, but there is always a place in my heart where I imagine these thoughts are being watched. My hair was pulled out of a corner along with my thoughts.

Everything I had hidden, and sometimes I fancied they were exposed. We all imagine that our thoughts are being exposed, that they might be on display.


I put this installation on the street, in the subway, and through the video above the box, people imagine that they are being watched, and maybe they are.

​围观

2019
混合材料装置
木/灯泡/假发

围观群众像在进行一种集体表演:聚集、观看、讨论……

这种被人监视的心理过程是很微妙的,其实很可能没人在意我们,但在公开场合还是会尽量控制自己的行为。闭上眼睛,或者封闭在一个盒子里,只能听到脚步声和窃窃私语,想象着正在被人观察……隐秘的思绪通过发丝这个意向,被从角落里拽了出来。

信息时代,我们以为隐藏的也许已经暴露。不管是否确有其事,不免会有“暴露、展示”出来的感觉。


这个装置放在街上、地铁里,通过盒子内部上方的视频,人们被引导着想象他们被监视(感觉体验),也许他们确实被监视着。

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introducing video

Introducing Video

介绍影片

People came along,
They looked, they were looking, they had been looked at.

They talk, they are talking, they had been talked;

Onlookers, onlooking, were onlooking.

人群围上来,
他们观察,被观看,正在被注视。

交谈,讨论着,正在被议论;
围观者,围观,正在被围观。

photo

The best thing I thought is that everyone finds happiness on their own path
Approach happiness naturally

May you be the last of the three benches

© 2022 by Zoe Jingyi He

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