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Concrete Coast 砼滩
2026, Sound installation with paintings
The memory of living by the coast begins here as sound: waves arriving and withdrawing, wind moving across open ground, machinery working behind the shore, and public announcements passing through the air. Some of these recordings were made along the reclaimed coast of Jinzhou Bay in Dalian, where an offshore airport is taking shape on ground made from the sea. Played alongside waves generated from pink noise, these fragments move through four channels. The recorded and synthetic sounds approach, recede and overlap, gradually losing the certainty of their origins.
The artificial coast is presented not as a stable line between land and sea, but as a landscape continually shaped by engineering, repetition and memory. What appears natural has already been constructed, while what feels remembered is reconstructed through listening. Environmental recordings, electronic simulation and personal recollection inhabit the same sonic space, tracing the ways an altered landscape enters the body and becomes intimate. The work does not attempt to recover an untouched coastline. Instead, it listens from within a shore that is still being made, where land emerges from water and the boundaries between what is recorded, artificial and remembered begin to dissolve.
The artificial coast is presented not as a stable line between land and sea, but as a landscape continually shaped by engineering, repetition and memory. What appears natural has already been constructed, while what feels remembered is reconstructed through listening. Environmental recordings, electronic simulation and personal recollection inhabit the same sonic space, tracing the ways an altered landscape enters the body and becomes intimate. The work does not attempt to recover an untouched coastline. Instead, it listens from within a shore that is still being made, where land emerges from water and the boundaries between what is recorded, artificial and remembered begin to dissolve.
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