Single channel video on phone, shirts and a transparent trolley luggage
80(H) x 52(W) x 23(D)cm
video: http://vimeo.com/185332781, 1min50s
Storing one checked baggage and carrying another in hand, we move through immigration counters, airplanes, hotels — all the temporary zones that frame a period of stay. Outside the home, every boundary and every moment becomes a choice of going in or going out. Turn around and look at the path we are walking.
Is it wise to lose ourselves between individual and institutional values? As a child, I saw mountains up close; downtowns existed only in the distance. Over time, land has been developed and transformed into firmer models and norms of modernity. Only when travelling abroad — looking down at the ground from the sky — do we realise how many species, fields, and national borders airplanes leap over. Between the new and the old, the urban and the rural, departure and arrival, these interim stages reveal how different countries construct unified systems of international exchange. Yet the similarities and differences in cultural and political structures also provoke new reflections on the primitive and the traditional. These reflections illuminate blind spots within our complex minds, compelling us to ask: what should we do now, in the face of such conflicts?
