Spring, Along Beijing Central Axis
Currently on view at China’s Pavillion of Biennale Architettura 2025
2025.5.10 - 2025.11.23
Spring, Along Beijing Central Axis is a three-minute point cloud-based video. The artist collective selected several significant nodes along this conceptual line and used 3D scanning technology to collage historical landmarks with everyday public spaces, composing digitally a contemporary "Chinese landscape painting." Soft and nebulous, the scanned data, captured at various moments in springtime, unfolds as flowing imagery across a symmetrically folded LED screen, accompanied by a soundscape of urban life. Eschewing a grand, panoramic gesture, the project, embracing an eye-level perspective, attempts to create an intimate audiovisual experience of the central axis as a meaningful contemporary public space.
*The Beijing Central Axis is a UNESCO World Heritage site—a 7.8-kilometer line extending north to south that historically structured the layout of the ancient city of Beijing, dating back to the 13th century. Key landmarks such as the Forbidden City, Temple of Heaven, and Drum Tower are situated along this axis. It endures as a testament to the evolution of urban planning philosophies, preserved and gradually refined over time.