Jing JI

Video Art

At her birthday ceremony, a person slips into a three-phase dream. In an unknown mirror-like domain, she dances with a mannequin, driven by inertia rather than intention, where delay and displacement become the rhythm. Then, on a black stage, she repeatedly crosses a constructed threshold, each passage triggering a new transfiguration. Finally, she faces five archived mannequins wearing the five transformed states like stored samples, silent and unreadable. In the dream loop, meaning and identity are constantly deferred. Is waking up a way out, or just another blank?