This video work explores how my Indigenous identity intersects with my upbringing in the city. Through layered images, sound, and abstract visual rhythms, the piece investigates how memory and cultural distance can be reconstructed through moving image.
This essay examines my position as someone in-between Bai culture—neither fully inside nor outside. Using Fei Xiaotong’s concept of “field,” I explore how this in-between state shapes my relationship with cultural identity.
The essay traces my artistic evolution from realistic painting under socialist realism to a quest for artistic freedom and primarily explores the possibility of transcending the constraints of national ideology in my personal landscape paintings, aiming for self-expression. It also critically analyzes and attempts to philosophically position my painting practice based on Adorno aesthetic theories.