fengwuchao artist web

Title: Dilution

 

Date: 2020

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Originating from a port city in southern China, with water and salt as key elements of my identity, this performance is based on a reversed process of salt farming, as the artist’s identity dilutes into a broader body of water through relocation overseas. From the red marker in the centre, the pile of salt is gradually dispersed, forming fluid traces of identity, and ending in differing concentrations across many endpoints. Therefore, my fluid identity does not necessarily belong to any specific place or category but differs in a higher or lower concentration.

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​作品Dilution通过表演海水晒盐的反向过程，展现了我的身份认知在经历家乡的归属感缺失和海外身份认同的迷茫之后，逐渐稀释于更广阔的水体之中的过程。在里外矛盾与落失间，我回到了水体之中，讨论身份认知作为一种相对的地域浓度概念，而不是作为一种是非分明的绝对答案，寻找我的归属地。红色地标代表了我的发源地宁波，它决定了我生来是怎样的水，而又有怎样的文化、社会因素溶解在水中。我从发源地出发，将盐堆逐步推向更远的坐标，白盐在大地之上逐步散开，留下各式各样的踪迹，各式各样的浓度，也有更多元的因素溶解于水中。因此，我流动的自我也许并不一定非要归属于何地，只是如盐入水般扩散在各片大地之上，不过是浓度或高或低、或咸或淡之分而已。