我们的法兰西特派 / My version of The French Dispatch (DEMO)
(2021-2024)
In 2021, when I had just arrived in NYC for my studies, I felt lonely and gloomy in the unfamiliar life abroad. At that time, artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude were carrying out the wrapping of the Arc de Triomphe, and I watched the 24-hour livestream of the project every day. Suddenly, I had the idea: would anyone in Paris be willing to wave at me through this livestream camera?
Through this, I reconnected with a university classmate I hadn’t spoken to in a long time. On a sunny day, she stood at the corner of the Arc de Triomphe and waved to me through the camera, all the way to New York.
Three years later, with the Olympics taking place in Paris, I came to Paris for the first time and saw the Arc de Triomphe with my own eyes. At that moment, I set up a projector and cast the photo of my friend waving to me at the Arc de Triomphe back onto its walls.
Now, back in New York, I present this story on a wall in New York City.
