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Photography

Direction and Photography by Andi
Lighting support by Jinshao Wong
Assisted by Ze Xie and Dian Zheng

Casts (from A - Z)
Cheng Yongqun
Liu Minglai

2026

About this project...

'Old Land, New Souls. New Land, Old Soil.' is developed in an artist village in my hometown of Hefei, China, where rural homes have gradually been rented to artists and transformed into spaces of cultural production.

Through moving-image and photographic scenes, the project brings together farmers, artists, animals, and architectural thresholds into unresolved cinematic tableaux. I am interested in how different lives quietly coexist within the same landscape, and how this landscape is quietly reshaped by larger economic and developmental systems.

Hovering between stillness and performance, the work reflects on how land is reinterpreted, repurposed, and imagined over time, and how people move through structures that often remain invisible, yet continue to shape the rhythm of everyday life.

You are now looking at the photographic series from this project. For moving images, please head to ‘Old Land, New Soul. New Land, Old Soil. Pt. 2’