Home, 2018

Chinese propaganda posters from various revolutions had their pixels reordered by an algorithm to suggest history rendered into digital sands of time and cycles of repetition.

The soundtrack is slowed down music of “The Sun is Reddest Mao is Dearest” into an eerie melancholic soundscape. Originally a celebratory music track, here it is emotionally stretched into hypnotic existential waves.

In parallel, the happy posters of home life time-lapsing into abstraction and reappearing alludes to the cycle of life and the transience of mortality. ‘Disappearing’ people is a natural condition of life and it takes on a darker tone when it is your ‘home’ state that is doing the ‘disappearing’. One can disappear and return a ‘transformed’ person.

Unknowing known histories by replacing with innately desirable happy human stories is deeply comforting and blinds the uglier complexities of belonging to civilisations beautifully weaved by mythologies and histories written by victors.