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Here I am 我在
2018
Single-channel HD Video 单通道数字影像,彩色、有声
Color, Stereo
56’’


 Here I am
我在



《我在》(2018)是对都市语境中社会身份与个人存在之间张力的探索。在纽约驻留期间,我携带自己放大尺寸的证件照行走于街头——这类图像通常被压缩、标准化,并剥离了个人特质。通过邀请陌生人共同托举这张肖像,我尝试打破证件照的常规解读,将其从行政框架中释放,重新投入公共生活流动而不可预测的肌理之中。个体身份如何在显形与消隐间摇摆,当置身于都市庞大而漠然的律动中,一个人的存在何以既清晰可辨又深陷暧昧。它邀请观者追问:在制度系统与集体空间里,我们如何认知自我与系统中的流动?



Here I Am (2018) is an exploration of the tension between social identity and personal presence within the urban landscape. During a residency in New York, I walked on the city streets carrying an enlarged version of her own ID photo—an object typically compressed, standardized, and stripped of individuality. By inviting strangers to hold the image with her, she disrupted the conventional reading of the ID portrait, releasing it from bureaucratic frameworks into the fluid, unpredictable fabric of public life.In this quiet, performative gesture, Here I Am examines how individual identity oscillates between visibility and erasure, how a person’s presence can remain both clear and profoundly ambiguous when set against the vast, indifferent rhythm of the city. It invites viewers to question how we recognize ourselves and others within institutional systems and collective spaces.