This piece traces the coming-of-age of a girl born in rural northern Jiangsu in the late 1990s, unfolding a documentary-style reflection on Chinese society from 1998 to 2020. Through materialized private memory, it probes generational gaps, female awakening, class shifts, poverty stigma, digital-age nationalism, and modern mechanisms of control.
Aesthetically shaped by concepts of “core” and “liminality,” the work fuses surrealism, retro digital textures, and collage narrative. In a setting that’s “uncanny yet safe,” it symbolically processes collective and personal trauma.