//The Breath of Metal-Baiyin, what the mine left behind//
How do metal and mining, as material, historical, and political forces, shape our cities, bodies, and memories? What becomes visible when these industrial processes are revisited through archives, landscapes, and ruins?
My work explores the relationship between metal, mining, and the connection between family history and the city I come from.
I grew up in Baiyin in China, an industrial city shaped by mining, where several generations of my family worked in this field. For me, this background is not about nostalgia, but more like a structure that shapes how I understand material, the body, and urban space.
In my work, metal is not just a material, but also a kind of language, something that carries weight, sound, and time, and holds traces of labor and history.
I see the mine not as a fixed place, but as a changing system: from ore to metal, to infrastructure, to the city, and eventually to ruins.
Tomorrow is the last day of the show, Finisage 16:00 at ZKM
@zkmkarlsruhe , feel free to come by!
Under the supervision of Professor
@susanne.kriemann and
@karolinasobel
Graphic & Book design
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