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The Journal of Detective Yixin Zhang
Reading / wooden edition, looping video, 2024–2025
A Chinese detective, Yixin Zhang, disguises herself as a student and arrives at Villa Arson to investigate the true cause of Jieyi’s death.
As the investigation unfolds, mysterious events occur, triggering dreams of returning to Beijing and its plants, and of glowing purple mushrooms in the forest.
In the end, she discovers a CD and a notebook.
In the live reading within the exhibition space, I incorporate a video excerpt
In it, three people are discussing something, and a blue bead rolls across the frame..