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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 to try and 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

Untitled

Filmed in Diamond Beach, Iceland, where Ji Jia embraced a piece of glacier ice that drifted to the coastline. Each piece of the glacier ice is nearly 500 years old. From embracing the ice, the cold from the ice penetrated Jia's skin and entered her body. At the same time, time and energy entered Jia's body, and she also melted the ice (dissolution of time).

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

Saturday Drunk includes installation and photography. Handmade tilted beer glass. The beer glass collects Jia's urine excreted after she drinks beer (human body-processed beer). Documenting her body tilted likely "drunk".

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

Trigger

Choosing public fountains in Bergen, Norway, and Guangzhou, China, to adjust their operational hours. The project reversed the fountains’ original schedules, turning them off during the day and operating them at 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—still filled with her daily groceries—outdoors next to the University of Bergen, Faculty of Fine Art, Music, and Design, used a extension cord to connect it to the university’s 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