Dorm 701

Title：Dorm 701
Date：2020
Size：60 x 50 inches
Medium,materials used：Analog Photography

This series of photos with Polaroid films that I took with my roommates in dormitory, and other dormitory-related photos are also printed in Polaroid. These photos—single and group photos—show colorful and joyful moments in our 8 people’s dormitory life during the pandemic.

Due to the epidemic, there was no school opening and no graduation ceremony. Six months had passed before we opened the dormitory door to pack our bags, only to have a hasty farewell. This series of works contains photos, videos, and objects in the dormitory. Through a projected video, viewers were taken to enter the closed dormitory for participating in an offline video discussion with no one. Polaroid photos showed the

wonderful sparks between the eight people in the dormitory. In the next section, we seek the image of "me" in the eyes of the roommates through their photographs and find the emotions carried by the objects. Finally, photos of the sunset outside the window, along with others, were collected into a cluttered treasure box. The novel coronavirus is like a boulder shattering the complete four-year memory of this dormitory, and the fragments are hastily picked up from the site, spliced and glued, imagined and remembered to put together a complete dorm 701.