Ronggui Neighbourhood

(2024)

This series was developed during the residency at Dongfeng Community, Ronggui, as part of the Drifting Lands residency generously sponsored by HE Interaction. It includes a collection of reportage drawings of the people and a composite architectural cross-section, documenting the research and reflections in the area. Ronggui used to the heart of the city, maintaining economic prosperity through agricultural production exports. However it has had to develop tourism to rescue the economic decline since the past decade. Scenes that capture the vibe of the past in this area have been hugely erased by ‘Internet Celebrity Economy’.

The drawing depict different facades of silent, overlooked residences within the community, collaged together to form a new, imagined landscape. These works serve as a creative response to the displacement of 384 households, capturing buildings often too fragmented to be photographed in a single frame.

This series also acts as a visual ethnography, capturing fleeting micro-events in the public spaces of Dongfeng Community. Combining imagery and text, it seeks to connect various historical moments and temporalities, revealing the layered stories embedded in the neighborhood’s everyday life.


该系列包含于“浮土志”顺德容桂东风社区驻地期间一系列汇报性绘画及一张建筑切面集合，作为社区观察与研究的视觉记录。

“即使一个地方几乎被贴上了被遗忘的标签，也并不意味着没有令人惊奇的事情发生。”

该绘图汇集了社区内不同地点不同沉寂住宅的切面，经拼贴而成的新的图景，以一种虚构的方式作为驻地期间拆迁384户居民区域的补充与想象。这些建筑来自于街头小巷，通常难以通过摄影的方式将整个建筑捕捉在一个画面当中。

“人类学家可以画画，艺术家也可以制作视觉民族志。”

该系列纪实绘画是驻地期间即时捕捉的微观事件——基于东风社区内公共空间，聚焦于极短一段时间内发生于在场的多重日常叙事而形成的图像与文字的结合，力图捕捉和分享一个场地的不同历史时刻和时间性如何相互联系。