Five Nights, Aquarium
2012-2013
Five Nights, Aquarium is a non-linear narration weaved by photographs and five short written works.
I try to reconstruct my inner journey from trips I’ve made between my home country China and San Francisco during these two years in a truthful way, but the overloaded feelings of estrangement and desolation created by the journey have transformed my memories into illusions of confinement. I chose five nights in the whole reconstructed journey story, using five short semi-fictional short stories as clue, to portray the imaginary aquarium. The stories are cold yet intimate, sensual yet intangible. The narration of journey moves from real to imagined spaces, exploring the boundaries between autobiography and fiction.
