Exhibition view,2020
Wooden door with a window, video, sound
These 70 photos were taken in the women's dormitory building at Nanjing Forestry University, where there are these glass transparent surveillance windows on each dormitory door, and there is a daily room-by-room inspection by the student dormitory building management staff, which is a daily inspection and is not communicated in advance. The weak resistance of the watched is shown in the glue marks on those windows, the dolls that don't quite cover them, the tiny stickers.
In the case of the same gender, the scope of personal privacy often changes. For the school, the presence of these transparent dormitory windows seems to be moulding a more disciplined and rule-following group of students
Exhibition view,2020
Wooden door with a window, video, sound
This Behind the Door video is an actual video and an actual audio recording. I'm trying different ways of incompletely covering the windows of this dormitary room, gradually increasing the level of coverage.
When I covered the glass with string like wool, I was asked by the dormitory manager to remove it