GROUP EXHIBITION
Resonant Differences
SHANGHAI
ART FLOW TAI ART CENTER
07.29-08.31 2025
Recurrence Field ALL WILL COME IF WE WORK HARDER
145°- 250°
I’m Spying On You From The Attic Stranger Nextdoor Return South Borderfruit Red Oil
I’m Spying On You From The Attic Stranger Nextdoor Return South Borderfruit Red Oil
Video Installation
Repeated
2025
“Borderfruit" constructs an intimate, uneasy encounter with the invisible economies of borderlands. Viewers approach a weathered wooden board, compelled to peer through a solitary peephole. Inside, a looped video reveals two figures engaged in the clandestine act of smuggling goods across a divide—yet the action unfolds with jarring banality.
The smuggled package is passed with the mundane rhythm of daily rituals: a broom sweeping a floor, groceries handed across a market stall, a child lifted from school gates. This deliberate normalization of transgression implicates the viewer as witness to an open secret. The peephole’s constrained frame mirrors state surveillance while evoking neighborhood voyeurism, blurring lines between complicity and observation.
By embedding the illicit within the ordinary, “Borderfruit exposes how survival tactics become routine in contested zones. The title’s poetic friction—"fruit" as sustenance versus "border" as barrier—questions what is forbidden to nourish whom.