The Overwritten
Floating Island

The Overwritten Floating Island places the artist’s memories beside those of the artist’s parents and the development of Shenzhen. Through first-person writing, interviews, and archival material, the work follows how a migrant family forms its identity within a city under constant reconstruction, asking whether narrative can become a new site of memory when physical places no longer hold the past.

《被复写的空岛》把艺术家与父母的记忆同深圳的城市发展并置。作品通过第一人称写作、访谈与档案资料，追踪一个迁移家庭如何在不断被重建的城市中形成身份，并询问当现实空间不再承载记忆时，叙述能否成为新的记忆场所。

The project began with an accidental visual overlap between London and Shenzhen before turning towards internal migration in the Chinese context. The artist’s parents arrived in Shenzhen from different provinces; the artist grew up in the young city as a member of the second generation, yet could not fully identify with Cantonese culture, the parents’ hometowns, or a stable idea of being ‘from Shenzhen’. Moving between personal narrative, family interviews, and an urban timeline, the book considers how memory is inherited, displaced, and rewritten through retelling.

项目起始于伦敦与深圳两处城市景观在视觉上的偶然重合，并进一步转向“中国语境下的内部迁移”。父母从不同省份来到深圳，艺术家则作为第二代在这座年轻城市成长，却始终难以把自身完全归入广东文化、父母故乡或一个稳定的“深圳人”身份。书中跨越个人叙述、家庭采访和城市时间线，呈现记忆如何在复述中被继承、错置与重写。

The book moves between personal narrative, conversations with the artist’s parents, archival material, and an urban timeline. Rather than treating memory as fixed evidence, it attends to how stories are inherited, displaced, and rewritten each time they are told.

艺术家书在个人叙述、与父母的谈话、档案资料和城市时间线之间展开。作品不把记忆视为固定证据，而是关注故事如何被继承、错置，并在每次讲述中再次被改写。

Together with 000X, the project considers domestic archives and urban change as unstable systems through which a person attempts to locate the self.

这一项目与《000X》共同讨论家庭档案与城市变化：它们既帮助个体定位自身，也始终是不稳定、持续重组的系统。