jijia

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This work documents a simple action.
While visiting her hometown Hulunbuir, Ji Jia and
her father found a leaning tree. They decided
straighten it together. The process was recorded
through a series of photographs.

2025
Photography

Soda Dream

Single-Channel video, filmed in Skógar, a village in southern Iceland, with a population of 25 in 2007. There is no grocery store in town and almost no commercial facilities. One late night during Jia's stay in Skógar, she wanted to drink soda, so she tried to buy a bottle of soda in the town, eventually, Jia bought one from a waiter who was closing the hotel. The whole process was recorded on video.

2024
Video

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Filmed on Diamond Beach, Iceland, this work documents an action where Ji Jia embraced a piece of glacier ice that had drifted to the coastline. Each piece of glacier ice is nearly 500 years old. The cold from the ice penetrated her skin. A thermal camera captured the change in skin temperature caused by contact with the ice.

2024
PhotographyVideo 00’49

A Silent Song

Single-channel video. Ji Jia was singing next to Skógafoss (Iceland). The sound of the waterfall
engulfed her singing. To create a song without melody and sound. The song Jia sang during her performance is ♫<<Sorrow>> , by The National.

2024
Photography
Video 02’59”

Saturday Drunk

A tilted handmade beer glass filled with Ji Jia’s urine. The urine was collected after she had consumed only beer, processed through her body. The glass was produced in collaboration with glassblower Noah Hartley.

2024 Installation, beer glass, urine
Photography

Insomnia

In the video, Ji Jia was counting sheep on the grassland located in Chenbaerhu Banner, Hulunbuir, Inner Mongolia, China, which is the only road leading to Ji Jia's hometown. The flock was constantly moving, a seemingly impossible mission. Audiences can use the counter to count the sheep in the photograph during the exhibition.

2023Photography
Video 10’02”

Trigger

A proposal was submitted to the cities of Bergen, Norway, and Guangzhou, China, requesting permission to reverse the operating schedule of their public fountains, keeping them off during the day and running throughout the night.

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2022Site-Specific Installation

Cooperation

Install an automatic feeder above Bergen Kunsthall's entrance. A pair of horn speakers play the pre-recorded whistles at 11:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. daily, while the automatic feeder delivers bird food. The aim is to train the pigeons in the park to eat and excrete at Bergen Kunsthall. Video is recorded from a CCTV camera inside the automatic feeder. It lasts one month until the end of the exhibition.

2022 Installation
Automatic feeder, bird food,
bird droppings, horn speaker, CCTV camera

Cold Beer?

Moving Jia’s apartment refrigerator outdoors, still filled with her daily groceries, use an extension cord to connect it to the internal power supply, keeping the fridge running while offering free beer to visitors.

2021 Installation
Refrigerator, beer

A Puff of Breeze

Install a pair of feminine home-style lace curtains on one of the Tag Team Studio’s windows and open the window to hang one of the curtains through the window outside. Keep the curtain hanging outside during the whole exhibition period. To connect the inside and outside space.

2021Installation
White lace curtains×2

Installation view