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Shanghai
chaherige@outlook.com
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Stilled Syntax
Collective narratives are never naturally formed. They depend on the continuous integration, correction, and shaping of individuals—requiring each person to surrender part of their own story, to be re-inscribed within a unified language and system of symbols that sustain the narrative’s continuity and legitimacy. What appear to be neutral, shared memories are in fact the result of layered selection. Power relations often remain hidden, not through coercion, but by quietly permeating the everyday: in the words we choose, in the gestures of our bodies, and in the very ways we gather.
In this project, I collect and integrate photographs of Chinese meeting scenes and arrangements found online, combining them with AI-generated 3D models and commercially available ones. By isolating and reconstructing these familiar, taken-for-granted visual details, I attempt to make visible the structures through which collective narratives are both embodied and maintained.
These spaces function like containers—holding and sustaining the narrative. Yet paradoxically, the individual can never fully withdraw from it: even in absence, the seat remains.
Only in the act of re-viewing can we begin to speak again of the “individual” — one that still bears its fractures and uncertainties.
集体叙事从来不是自然生成的。它依赖于不断地整合、修正与塑造个体，要求个体让渡一部分自我叙事，在统一的语言与符号中被重新安置，以维系自身的延续性与合法性。那些看似中立、共享的记忆，其实是层层筛选的结果。权力关系往往潜伏其中，不以强制的姿态出现，而是通过潜移默化的方式渗入日常：在语言的选择里，在身体的姿态里，也在我们如何聚集的方式之中。
在这个项目中，我收集和整合了散布在网络上的中国会议场景与布置照片，用AI 生成 3D 模型，以及公开售卖的3D模型，将这些司空见惯、早已被理所当然化的视觉场景细节提取，使它们重新显形。
这些场景像一个容器，承载并维系着叙事。但矛盾的是，个体无法完全脱离这个叙事：哪怕缺席，位置依然存在。
唯有在它们被重新观看的那一刻，我们才可能重新谈论“个体”——一个仍然带着裂缝与不确定性的个体。