Yining Fei

- After All Voices is a mixed media installation that reflects on the situation of in the so-called “rust belt” of China, subtly interwoven with the artist’s own emotions and nostalgia of this place as “hometown”. The piece is a combination of performative apparatus, documentary film and symbolic objects. It references to the aftermath of the demise of China’s planned economy and the disappearance of the socialist industry it entailed in Northeast China, highlighting the metaphorical representation of its impact in terms of livelihoods and social ideals. Through this project, I aim to engage the viewer in an increasingly intense cinematic and experiential atmosphere of loss, vain, and the indifference of time, providing an unsentimental yet melancholy glimpse of something absorbed in the flow of fast-paced modernization.