A photograph can exist simultaneously as an object, evidence and historical record. Numerous photographs construct a world of Simulacra – a world with past, present, and future – which is parallel to the objective world. In China, a large number of World War II-themed anti-Japanese TV dramas were made and showed in the past few years. I directly make photographs of the screen and arrange them into a fictional archive T01[01.1a-37.1c]-T04[01.1-80.1] which comprises various videos, photographic reproductions, scrapbooks, and objects to locate, produce, preserve, and analyze a period of history created and depicted by countless images and investigate the (dis)connections between the reality narrated by screen and the historical facts, as well as how photographic images, materials, and processes can trigger partial understanding of history. T01[01.1a-37.1c]-T04[01.1-80.1] is a project produced by Yuxiang Dong between 2015 and 2019 with a selection available on this site.
一张照片可同时作为艺术、物件、证据和历史记录而存在，无数照片构成了一个与客观世界并行的拟像世界——一个拥有过去、现在和未来的世界。《T01[01.1a-37.1c]-T04[01.1-80.1]》基于近年风靡电视和网络的抗战剧，直接拍摄屏幕中的画面后通过复制、分类和索引等方式组成一个看似可信，实则荒诞的档案，省思荧屏所描述的现实与历史事实间的联系与断裂，以及摄影材料和工艺如何激发对历史的片面认识。《T01[01.1a-37.1c]-T04[01.1-80.1]》为董宇翔于2015至2019年间的创作的项目，此网站展示了其中的部分作品。