Last August, my studio in “Iowa”, an artist compound in the Caochangdi Village in Beijing, was forcibly demolished. Beijing municipal government has implemented a large-scale policy to develop certain areas in 2017, and hundreds of thousands of people had been displaced. Since then, my life has entered a state of uncertainty. Slowly I calmed down, and every time I came to a place where I could sense something special, I made use of the items on the spot, maybe branches or debris discarded by people, and made a tent like this, a pyramid conical structure. Like a little “shrine”, sheltering my heart.
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About the filmmaker
- Zhang Ruo, a sculpture artist from Beijing. He started to produce his art project “Temporary Faith” in Berlin in 2018.