Trance, 2025

This projector installation draws on footages from three films: Hollywood production 55 Days at Peking (1963), the Hong Kong film Boxer Rebellion (1976), and the Chinese mainland film The Magic Braid (1986). All three depict historical events surrounding the 1900 invasion of Beijing by the Eight-Nation Alliance and the Boxer Rebellion.

The artist extracts ambiguous moments from these films, featuring Boxer fighters, Empress Dowager Cixi, allied soldiers, and street performers etc. Removed from the original context and suspended in a liminal space, these figures invite reflection on the subtle relationships among history, reality and fiction.