Cavity of Memory is a two-channel video work that oscillates between reality and illusion. The artist envisions the mountainous landscape of Southwest China as a kind of “film apparatus.” Here, the local imagination perceives the mountain massif as a human body, with rivers, ridges, and valleys corresponding to different parts of its cavities. Multiple invisible paths traverse this terrain, forming both a geographical network of migration and a spiritual infrastructure—constructed by ritual specialists within their cognitive models to perceive external space and time, thereby “navigating”for souls.

However, this “psychotechnology” and the mourning network it weaves have been increasingly compressed and severed over recent decades by a linear historical path enacted in the name of modernity. Ancient memories quietly fracture and dissipate amidst relentless technological iteration. The film invites viewers to sense a journey that never truly existed—a passage surrounded by spirits and directed toward illusion. Simultaneously, it reflects on the structural violence latent within the organization of cinema, illusion, and memory.