Through the interplay between virtuality and reality, On Borrowed Time navigates the audience to experience the presence and absence of lilong.
On Borrowed Time is a video installation aiming to portray and recreate the collective memories of Shanghai people living in the lilong, the typical form of residential alley in Shanghai in the 1990s and to reflect on the impact of irreversible urbanization and globalization on traditional architecture. The project intends to realize the presence and absence of lilong through the interplay between real and fictional worlds. Rather than a complete restoration of a specific lilong site, the project is composed of cultural signifiers as a reflection of the artist’s own experience and perception of how the architecture has shaped Shanghai people‘s personalities, lifestyles and human relations.
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