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18-22 JUNE 2026
Unit 8, 133 Copeland Rd, London, SE15 3SN
Unit 8, 133 Copeland Rd, London, SE15 3SN
Fishing For the Moon
Journey Geng
Fishing for the Moon is an experimental moving image installation that questions whether an objective reality can ever be fully confirmed. On the day of an exhibition, Wang’s graduation work appears to have disappeared. Yet the work asks a more unstable question: did it disappear, or did it ever exist as a fixed object at all?
Through fragmented scenes, uncertain evidence, surveillance blind spots, lunar motifs and repeated acts of observation, the project follows a reality that changes depending on who is looking. Drawing loosely on Heidegger’s idea of truth as aletheia, an unconcealing rather than a fixed fact, the film treats truth as something that emerges, withdraws and becomes misread.
The installation culminates in a large cage containing a wooden sculpture from which a strange mushroom grows. Suspended between evidence, dream and hallucination, Fishing for the Moon asks what remains when no single witness, image or record can say: this is what happened.
Through fragmented scenes, uncertain evidence, surveillance blind spots, lunar motifs and repeated acts of observation, the project follows a reality that changes depending on who is looking. Drawing loosely on Heidegger’s idea of truth as aletheia, an unconcealing rather than a fixed fact, the film treats truth as something that emerges, withdraws and becomes misread.
The installation culminates in a large cage containing a wooden sculpture from which a strange mushroom grows. Suspended between evidence, dream and hallucination, Fishing for the Moon asks what remains when no single witness, image or record can say: this is what happened.
Objective Reality
Truth
Observation
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