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Mountain Beyond Mountains
The origin of a structure of seeing
2012
- Year
- 2012
- Medium
- Photography, photomontage and large-scale image
- Role
- Artist
Hundreds of partial viewpoints are recomposed as landscape. The viewer moves closer and farther away, reading the work between detail and whole.
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Project statement
Completed in 2012, Mountain Beyond Mountains was He Fa’s graduation photography work. Photographing, dividing and recomposing organize many partial images into a landscape; it forms a whole at a distance and separates into time, viewpoint and fragment up close.
Mountain Beyond Mountains — Red and White entered the CAFA Art Museum collection. The work also established a line He Fa would return to: looking organizes space, bodies and relations.
A line through the work
If a landscape is made from countless incomplete views, do we see the mountain—or the way we look?
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