Eternal Spring2022Full HD Video, 15”35 It was a story starting in Luxembourg, growing in Shanghai, and ended again in Luxembourg. With the post-master research program “École Offshore”, Chia had an opportunity to carry out a residency program in Shanghai for 3 months and later present the result of her creation in Luxembourg. During her first …
“It goes on.”Video, Full HD, 3”312019 During a trip in the Netherlands, Chia was on a train that went forward in parallel with another train for more than three minutes (which is quite rare!). The short accompany of the parallel train was like a bright encounter in life, momentary yet remarkable. Thus a conversation was …
Lunar Cycle2021Video Full HD, 1”30 in loop Inspired by a protocol given by John Baldessari to his students in the 70’s “Document change, decay, metamorphosis, changes occurring in time”, Chia filmed the covering and discovering of her own face by her hair, following the pattern of lunar cycle. Every individual, every species, and every existence …
Garden City: Version LotusFull HD Video animation 1”00 loop, sound track 15”00 loop.2018 In Buddhist tradition, the paradise is depicted as a place “full of giant lotuses, clear fountains and golden sand”; the urban planning model “Garden City” proposed by Ebenezer Howard in 1898 pictures the ideal city as human communities surrounded by large greenbelts. …