12/07/2026
Along the Dianpu River in Shanghai | 2026
Some Close-up.
Following the Dianpu River from Zhujiajiao to the Huangpu River, this work traces my journey through Shanghai during artist residency, while recording the experience of living alongside fellow resident artists.
The work is structured around a synodic lunar cycle, allowing the changing phases of the moon to unfold alongside the flow of the river. As we moved through the city, we walked, talked, worked, and gradually came to know one another. Like moonlight reflected on water, those relationships were constantly shifting, never remaining quite the same.
For years, I have drawn maps to preserve the memories of places. This is the first time I have tried to map my own experience instead. Every path and every location appears here not because it is historically significant, but because it once crossed paths with my life. A shared meal, a conversation, a riverside walk, or an ordinary evening slowly became the true coordinates of this map.
As our time together gradually became memory, I realised that a map cannot hold time still, nor can it prevent relationships from changing. What it preserves is not a complete ending, but the simple evidence that these moments once existed.
Perhaps a memory map is not an attempt to resist forgetting, but a way of allowing seemingly ordinary encounters to remain somewhere we can return to, even after time has carried us elsewhere.
(Rewriting the description would be very difficult, so just continue using this one I left on the last day of April. Anyway. )
