<A hundred days>

Behavior, image

I met someone through a dating app. In the process of talking to him, I felt like I was in an intimate relationship. There is no denying that I fell in love with someone through the screen, and this "relationship" lasted for 100 days.

During the 100 days I spent with him, I felt like I was scratching a match, the light of the fire created an illusion for me, a kind of imagination and expectation for the ideal person. Gradually I began to lose myself in the relationship. Did I like a real person or a fictitious image of him on the Internet?

I was so absorbed in this moment of pleasure, until the moment that everything collapsed and fell down.

<Embrace>

Behavior, image, photography

The feeling of liking a person through the screen is like hugging a person through the air. the feeling of being separated and together at the same time makes me lost between illusion and reality. The harder I want to hold tight, the harder I hurt myself.

< Overexertion >

Behavior, image

The development of social media has made it easier to get information about a person. I tried to find all the traces of "him" through the cracks of the Internet, until the loud sound of a balloon bursting woke me up to the fact that all these "efforts" were doomed to be in vain.

Artist Background: 

Guorong Jian, born in 1996, is currently a postgraduate student of experimental art at Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, and now lives and works in Guangzhou. He has long been dedicated to exploring the relationship between the individual and the collective and space, digging into the invisible logic of the everyday that is easily overlooked, and trying to express it uniquely through the language of art. His works cover performance, video, installation, text and other media means.