The Daylight Moon

“The Daylight Moon” photography series conjures up a spacetime to accommodate the thoughts unbearable and things both unattainable and unchangeable in reality. In those hyperreal images, the exaggerating and uncanny scenes, unexpected relations and images between figures and objects can form complex and bizarre circumstances, familiar and unfamiliar, just like a fantasy flashing in our brain or a remote dream. I worked with images and clips through a non-linear, fragmented sequence of visual excerpts from my adventures in Australia as an emerging artist from China, conjuring up an interrupted departure, obstructions, and emotional shortcuts, building up a fantasy world that could break the constraints of time and space. Utilising the latest extended reality technology combined with traditional film negatives, here the imaginary being born out of a raw experience is also its forever-hedged condition of possibility. Like a short circuit, they navigate my mind along a hyperreal path, often producing dystopian associations while situating in a misty post-pandemic world, rushing towards the future with the past silently behind. This tension between the self and the societies, dreams an