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Echo from the Spiral
China | 2024 | 13 min | Fantasy / Experimental Art | Chinese Wuhan Dialect
Director: CHEN Yipei
Screening Time：10/19/2025
11 am-12:22 pm
Synopsis:
After the epidemic control has been fully released, people seemed to be celebrating a "grand joy". The girl still chose to isolate herself from the outside world and was trapped in her room - building a story that was different from the grand narrative within her own smallest unit. This seclusion led her into a fantasy of solitude, and her faith began to shake violently in this night.
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About The Director
CHEN Yipei
Born in Beijing, China, Chen Yipei is a London-based artist working primarily in sculpture and video. She earned her BA in Digital Media Art from the Communication University of China in 2024 and is currently pursuing an MFA in Sculpture at the Slade School of Fine Art.
Director's Statement
Yipei Chen’s work explores the inherent instability of artificially synthesized, human-serving everyday objects, generating novel metaphorical systems through materials that oscillate between imitation and camouflage. By doing so, she encourages the audience to imagine aspects of her work that cannot be fully captured or reduced to symbols or language. Yipei employs nonlinear and anti-presentational approaches, treating embodied cognition as a malleable material. She "scavenges" and "samples" objects from her daily life, bring herself and the audience a cognitive tension directed towards randomness and personal narratives.
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