《生活在此处》Living Here
《生活在此处》Living Here
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- Exhibition site
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- With curator Tereza and the artists
胡顺香 成都
HU Shunxiang Chengdu
Comprised of a photograph and an installation, this work explores the rhythm of residency life. In Berlin, my only access to fresh air was a window at the top of a three-meter ladder. What began as a bare frame slowly transformed; piece by piece, brush-wiping cloths began to shroud the rungs. I climbed these cloths daily until eight of them marked the end of my stay—a tactile "ruler of time" charting my ascent from the grounded to the unknown.
Back in China, as I prepared my Berlin Memoirs, time repeated itself. Over an equal duration of work, eight new cloths emerged. I have fashioned them into a soft, suspended ladder—a twin to the Berlin timescale, yet moving in the opposite direction: a descent back into the grounded reality of home.
柏林驻留期间，我在工作前或者朋友拜访，会习惯性地泡上一杯茶，茶渣被丢弃在暖气片下方的盘子里，时间久了茶叶被重新烘干，每一片茶叶像一个小小的雕塑一样。我把在柏林喝过的茶渣重新带回中国，用茶叶写了一封信，这封信无法阅读，就像是我在柏林思念中国的情绪，或者我重新返回中国对柏林的怀念。
During my residency in Berlin, I developed a habit of brewing a cup of tea before starting work or when friends visited. The discarded tea leaves would accumulate in the tray beneath the radiator, drying out over time until each leaf resembled a miniature sculpture. Later, I brought these tea remnants from Berlin back to China and composed a letter using the leaves. This letter remains unreadable, much like the nostalgia for China I carried in Berlin, or the longing for Berlin I now harbor upon returning to China.
