Jodie Luk Lai Wa
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There's A Worm in Your Brain

Video installation, 2025
Single-channel video, black and white, stereo, 4:3, 1m37s, glazed porcelain figure

STATEMENT

To what extent do archives present the past? Archives preserve only selected images and voices. However, this fragmented imagery from the past becomes powerful enough to shape how societies remember themselves and how we understand ourselves in the present.

News footage of the 14th anniversary of the Soviet seizure of power in the Caucasus; an unveiling of a Lenin statue are re-voiced and re-edited into the form of a parody news report, inviting viewers to reflect on the artificiality and the fictionality of archival imagery and the history it carries, as well as the narration, the editing process and the past itself. 

Credits

Voiced by Jodie Luk, Ariz Ahmadkhanli, Kitman Yeung
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