Pan Daijing
Faint

Artist
Pan Daijing

Title
Faint

Year of creation
2023-24

Technology and dimension
5-channel video and sound installation, color, audio, 7:16 min

Year of acquisition
2025

Acquired by the friends of the National Gallery and Riller & Schnauck.

Faint (2023-2024) is a video and sound installation. Each of the four video channels presents a changing choreographic interplay between the camera and performers - - - - - also the artist, with whom the work explores the tension between control and uncertainty. While the sequences are repeated and overlap, the filmed movements occupy their own performative presence as if the monitors themselves would become dancers in the room. The accompanying sound channel is a piano improvisation of Daijings. The overlapping rhythms of image and tone reflect the improvisational character of Daijing's performative practice, interlocking in structure and chance. Together, the visual and auditory elements create a space of constant movement in which the work can develop as a flowing, constantly changing experience.

Agnes Rameder