Cinematic Elsewhere

HU Wei
38 x 25 x 16 cm
Painting Installation | Image obtained by converting the priest's fire pit into a camera obscura (pinhole imaging), offset printing, ink, medium, artist's hand-built clay frame, engobe, texture materials, metallic glaze, aluminum panel, non-reflective acrylic
2025
5979

A hazy and soft landscape image, resembling a photographic negative, develops inside the abdominal cavity of a female body. This imagery originates from the artist’s collaboration with a mountain ritual specialist: they transformed the hearth in the specialist’s home into a camera obscura, using a pinhole imaging technique to expose and record the scenery outside the courtyard.

The exposed abdominal cavity is conceived as a surface for carrying external scenes — natural landscapes are projected into the body, turning it into an “organless hollow curtain.” In this apparatus, the abdomen no longer merely functions as an internal bodily structure but acts like a film projector, “generating” the external world into imagery.