The Vault of the Cloven Void 《歇息日後，籬笆倒塌的園》
20mins ｜ 2025
In the Vault of the Cloven Void, fragments of different times and places accumulate—captured sporadically, entwined with the act of navigating online satellite maps. These fragments seek to reconstruct a space-time: chaos or void, where light distinguishes day from night, the vault separates sky from earth, where places and species emerge and exist—discovered, recorded, claimed, built, demolished, plundered, scattered, and perhaps, reconstructed once more. Civilization unfolds from the depths of caves to the hollowed remains of vacant cities. The cave paintings of the past have become images woven from digital pixels, waiting to be rediscovered in the future as testimonies of a vanished world. A drone, like a swift-flying bird, captures every portrait before its eyes, feeding an ever-expanding database—one that, for many, remains invisible. Massive structures in desolate wastelands were once permeated with the hopes for the future, yet could be once again swallowed up by nature’s reclamation. Walls and borders have risen where the vineyard’s fallen fences once lay. All within has been segregated and dispersed, and the void, once without form, has become a distant and untouchable faith.
《歇息日後，籬笆倒塌的園》透過在不同時間地方偶爾拍下來堆積著的影像，與穿梭於網上衛星地圖的游移視角——嘗試再建構一個時空：混沌初開，以光辨別日與夜，天地分界，地方與物種誕生與存在，被發現、被記錄、被試圖佔有、被建築、被拆毀、被掠奪、飄散，然後或許再度被建構。文明慢慢從洞穴演變成空城裡無人居住的建築—洞穴的壁畫是現在由數碼像素構成的圖像，等待在未來被發現，成為過去的見證；眼前的無人機如飛鳥般掠過，就這樣攝取所有肖像，貢獻於一座急速膨脹、卻在眾人眼前隱去形貌的資料庫。荒地上的龐大建築滲透對未來的期許，卻終有可能再次被植物吞噬。圍牆與邊界取代了葡萄園倒塌的籬笆，園內的一切四散分裂。而無以區辨的虛空，成為了遙遠的信仰。
Screening
2025 “On the Shores of…”, Art Central, Hong Kong
https://artcentralhongkong.com/programme-category/video-art/?_programme_year=2025
Image courtesy of Art Central for photo documentation of screening. Photo credit to Wong Pak Hang.