Ni Hui
Fine-art ProjectsLife Report-19492020
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The Uninherited

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The Uninherited begins with a simple question:
When a life is over, what cannot be passed on?

Law and custom are good at counting inheritances that have a price: houses, accounts, antiques, collections. This project turns to the other side of the ledger, toward the things once held very close and then quietly abandoned: old writing on a door, a worn blanket, a uniform signed by classmates, an expired campus card, a love letter that was never properly placed, and chat logs that will never be replied to. They form an unofficial estate made of intimacy, shame, comfort and hesitation, which almost never appears in any will.

Through staged still-life photographs, fragmentary videos, and an installation format, The Uninherited assembles a fictional yet familiar life told through such objects. Each piece is treated as a witness that remembers its owner longer than the owner remembers it. Together, they ask whether growing up is really a story of acquiring more, or a slow practice of leaving parts of ourselves behind.

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