Riku Yamakawa | Feng Chi - Photo Direction "Outside In Between" (Part 2)
This article discusses the second part of Feng Chi's photo direction, "Outside In Between," focusing on works exploring relationships with home and family.Summary
This article continues the review of Feng Chi's photo direction, "Outside In Between," focusing on works like "My Hometown Seen from the Embankment," "My Wife's Hometown, My Daughter's Hometown," and the "Room for Recollection." "My Hometown Seen from the Embankment" uses a long roll of photographs documenting the landscape of a vanished childhood village, viewed from a moving perspective along a dike, questioning how landscapes are remembered. The sound memory of a low hum from a chimney is recreated using a didgeridoo. Works created after Feng Chi moved to Ueda, while involving less travel, still center on gestures in a foreign place. The short video clips in "My Wife's Hometown, My Daughter's Hometown" suggest an attempt to maximize the time available to capture the scene. The growing words in the "Room for Recollection" reflect the texture Feng Chi sought to capture with film, suggesting that the artist's gestures and words are an effort to affirm his connection to the lost place of his hometown.
(Source：artscape)