The Swimmer
Reenacting The Swimmer’s pool odyssey on Tenerife via a Thomas Cook brochure, this video maps resort architectures in decay—evoking quiet loss through low-res footage.
2003, video, 60 min, color, sound, travel broschure
Reframing the Artist
Dafen copy painters re‑enact scenes from movies and biopics about artists within their real studios and shops. Blurring document and fiction, the work reflects on stereotypes, originality, and cultural encounter across themed chapters.
2010, 35 min, HD DV, color, English with Mandarin Subtitles. various oil paintings on canvas, size variable
THE ARTIST SERIES
After The Gift - Blossfeldt's Fan
A slow‑motion video stages a mimetic play of form and pattern between Blossfeldt’s magnified plants and Chinese hand fans turning pages through air.
2016 /2021, HD Video, 25 min, 16:9, Color, Silent, Gift Giving Performance, Untitled, video 2.55 min, b&w, English with English captions
AFTER THE GIFT SERIES
Liquid Grounds (video)
The video reanimates floor casts as luminous micro‑worlds—cells, bacteria, or planets—shifting domestic remnants into abstract, drifting life.
2023, 4K video, 19 min, silent, b&w, duration not fixed yet glas, dimensions variable, styrofoam light box
MIGRATORY SERIES
The Song of Polysiren (video)
A video of kindergarteners at the German School in Seoul playing with polystyrene. Their amplified textbook narration—voiced by AI and echoing Resnais’ Le Chant du Styrène (1961)—questions plastic’s failed promises amid climate and waste crises.
2025, 4K video, 7 min, b&w, sound, German with English subtitles
MIGRATORY SERIES
Ornaments of Property (film)
This five‑chapter film reanimates discarded DVD/CD drives as fossil‑bricks in imagined architectures. Analog cinematography turns digital waste into luminous ruins drifting through cosmic black.
2015, 16 mm film loop, 8,30 min, color, silent
Actors of Exchange
2016 HD Video, 15,07 min, 16:9, b&w, silent
Doppelgänger Video Archive
This Home Sequence work animates a “sculptural leftover” from the artist’s doppelgänger VHS/DVD collection—obsolescent media that ghost the blurred zones of gallery, video store, and private screening.
2015, mixed media, dimensions variable
Split
The video SPLIT features two rows of VHS and DVD covers from the ‚Doppelgänger Video Archive‘, overlapping in the middle as a vertical cut, creating a tension between simultaneity and division—a play with mirroring and doubling.
2015, HD Video, 3,24 min, 16:9, b&w, silent
UNTITLED - Gift Giving Performance
Through a reading of Lewis Hyde’s The Gift, this performance questions the “Indian giver” trope. Over 80 fans were gifted to visitors, merging acts of giving, holding, and fanning into shared authorship.
2016/2021, video 2.55 min, b&w, English with English captions
AFTER THE GIFT SERIES
If I were you - Las Vegas New York Blackpool
A looping video traces three Robert De Niro impersonators across cities linked by uncanny replication: Blackpool mimicking Las Vegas, Las Vegas copying Manhattan’s skyline, New York holding Taxi Driver’s original sites. Referencing Scorsese’s mirror scene, it overlaps actor, character, and doubles.
2007/08, HD video, loop, 16,5 min, color, sound, English
The Mad Masters
Inspired by Jean Rouch’s Les maîtres fous, records acts by professional and aspiring celebrity imitators. Probes imitation’s identification with fame, media-driven desires to become other, linking celebrity culture and cinema to archaic rituals of power.
2008, HD video, 15 min, color, sound, English
Who is Afraid Of Red, Yellow And Blue
2021
Installation with video and postal stamps, 6.40 min, color, silent, 20 x postal stamps, color, 60 x 40 cm Photograph, color, 60 x 40 cm
Safety Hour
Hot summer days overcrowd Tokyo's amusement park pools, ruled by loudspeaker commands and hourly 10-minute evacuations for lifeguard safety checks—scanning empty blue pools
2004, video installation, loop, color, sound
7000 Cattle
8mm footage mimics amateur vacation clips at North Korean Kumgang's former tourist site, featuring Seoul yodelers singing Peter Hinnen’s "Siebentausend Rinder"—homeland forsaken for cattle-filled vistas. Evokes Hyundai's cattle gift, yodeling as rapprochement metaphor amid Sunshine Policy tourism to Diamond Mountains,
2006, 8 mm film transferred to video, 2.00 min, color, sound
Nomansland
Realized in a Croatian national park—former Yugoslav film set for 1960s Karl May Winnetou films. Guided to mined Tulove Grede mountains, video blends personal recordings with original footage. Fiction and reality intersect: romantic landscape turns haunted by memory and invisible postwar threat.
2004, video, 2.37 min, color, sound, c-print, color, 45 cm x 60 cm