赵昌徳厂长收 TO MR.ZHAO
2025 - ongoing
To Mr. Zhao revolves around the artist’s grandfather, Zhao Changde, and everyday archives from the 1990s to the 2000s. Anchored within an expansive yet fragile family album, the project combines traditional film photography, hand collage, found photographs & objects and moving image into a multi-media installation. This new reading of the archive is both an act of repairing and piecing together memory and a way to challenge and ask who gets to preserve and narrate history. The viewers are invited to feel intimacy and absence, to sense the malleability and perishability of family images, and to reflect on how their own memories and family stories are constructed.
《赵昌徳厂长收》（To Mr. Zhao） 以艺术家的祖父赵昌德及其 20 世纪 90 年代至 2000 年代的日常档案为核心展开。项目植根于一本宏大却脆弱的家庭相册之中，结合了传统胶片摄影、手工拼贴、拾得影像与物件以及影像装置，构成一件多媒介装置作品。对档案的重新阅读既是一种对记忆的修复与拼接，也是一种对“谁有权保存并叙述历史”的提问与挑战。作品邀请观者在观看中感受亲密与缺席，体察家庭影像的可塑性与易逝性，并反思自身记忆与家庭叙事是如何被建构的。
ID photo of Mr.Zhao
Mr. Zhao was formerly the director of the Chongqing White Cement Factory.
赵昌德先生，曾任职于重庆白水泥厂，担任厂长一职
Exhibition view, Part one: ID and archives
展览现场，第一部分：身份与档案
During Mr.Zhao’s extensive travels, Mr. Zhao took numerous photographs of himself and his wife in the same angle, same posture, sameposition, but in different roles.
在赵厂长频繁的出行中，他持续拍摄自己与妻子的合影，照片在取景角度、姿态与位置上保持一致，但人物所处的角色与身份却各不相同
Exhibition view, Part two: twins photos
展览现场，第二部分：双胞胎照片
In Mr. Zhao's photos, I found a large number of images with similar scenes, and I tried to treat the unfamiliar grandfather as absent.
在赵厂长的照片中，我发现了大量场景相似的影像，于是我尝试将这位陌生的祖父视为一种“缺席”的存在
Exhibition view, Part three: blurred memories
展览现场，第三部分：模糊的记忆
Exhibition view, Part four: grandpa’s photo album “ New Year celebrations and car accidents”
展览现场，第四部分：祖父的相册《新年庆祝与车祸》
Family album, collage, short film, 22’07’’, daily archives
家庭影像档案、拼贴创作、短片影像（22′07″）、日常生活档案
Exhibition view, family album, collage, short film, 22’07’’, daily archives,
26 Jul 2025, Chongqing
Exhibition view, Part five: video
of arranging films, 22’07’’
手工摄影书
HANDMADE PHOTOBOOK
This handmade photobook extends the search for family memory and a sense of home in To Mr. Zhao. Beginning with photographs and envelopes kept by my family, I bring together images of my grandfather, Zhao Changde, my relatives and the old house, alongside photographs taken during my return visits. This is where my grandfather lived and my father grew up, but I never lived there myself. As the old house was demolished and the factory redeveloped, the family album became a way into this history. It also raised a question: how can a place I have never lived in become a place I call home?
The book brings these scattered materials into a sequence, allowing connections to emerge as its pages are turned. Its loose-leaf structure keeps the order of photographs open, while different papers give the old and new images distinct tactile qualities. Archival photographs, present-day landscapes and personal writing connect my family’s experiences with my own visits. Making the book has become a way of getting to know my family and understanding my relationship with this place.
这本手工书延续了《To Mr. Zhao》中对家庭记忆与故乡的寻找。我从家中保存的照片与信封出发，重新整理爷爷赵昌德、家人与老房子的影像，并将它们与回访故地时拍摄的照片放在一起。那里是爷爷生活、父亲成长的地方，我却未曾在那里生活。随着老房子被拆除、工厂改建，家庭相册成为我接近这段历史的入口，也让我开始思考：一个并未亲身经历的地方，如何成为自己的故乡？
通过手工书的形式，这些散落的材料被重新编排，在翻阅中建立联系。活页结构让照片的顺序保持开放，不同纸张的质感则为新旧影像带来不同的触感。旧照、当下的风景与个人文字交替出现，串起家人的经历与我的回访。整理这本书的过程，也是我逐渐认识家人、理解自己与这片地方之间关系的过程。
2026
手工摄影书｜活页装帧｜26页
高阶映画240g米白纸、320g水彩艺术微喷纸
2026
Handmade photobook | Loose-leaf binding | 26 pages
240 gsm ivory paper and 320 gsm watercolour paper, inkjet prints
手工书翻阅
旧照片、回访影像与个人文字在翻页之间相遇，串起家人的记忆，也成为我寻找故乡的线索。
Photobook Flip-through
Family photographs, images from return visits and personal writing meet across the pages, connecting my family’s memories with my own search for a sense of home.
展览现场 第十五季“还乡计划”，北京
Exhibition view ,The 15th Season of the “Returning Home Project”, Beijing