Nuo was photographed in Anshun, Guizhou, and its surrounding rural areas, focusing on the continuing practice of Di Opera performances. In the images, ritual does not unfold on a predefined stage; instead, it repeatedly enters fields, grasslands, and mist, temporarily occupying and altering everyday landscapes before withdrawing again. Here, the landscape is no longer a passive object of viewing, but a spatial structure that is repeatedly entered, used, and abandoned. What the work attends to is the traces and relationships left behind each time the ritual enters the landscape and recedes.
Yingle Zhao, born in 2003 in Chongqing, China, is an artist working primarily with photography. Her previous practice focuses on individual conditions and structures of memory within socio-cultural contexts, exploring the space between documentary and conceptual approaches. Working with images, archives, and experimental methods, she re-narrates and visually translates everyday experiences and historical fragments, allowing often overlooked details, subtle emotions, and latent social relations to emerge.
