I have been there (2023)

Scratched digital photographic prints(x3), 72.3 x 48 x 0.5 cm

This work responds to the materialisation of images and the memory they carried. By scratching off the surface of the photo paper by hand, I have been there presents the fragility of image memory. The mixture of fictional and real photos makes it impossible for viewers to identify its actuality. However, the idea of the monument has become a deep collective memory in people’s minds, almost all the scenes seem real when reading the photos.

Ironically, erasing something fictionally will still lead us to the same interpretation.