Since 2018, Beichen Zhang has been investigating the circulation of Chinese artifacts in American museums and initiated a photographic project named “11,565 kilometers”. 11,565 Kilometers Project tracks a journey of an artifact from the Shandong province (China) to the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (USA). This work highlights issues related to the circulation of Chinese artifacts, the complexity of Chinese colonial histories. It portrays the long migration of this Chinese coffin, its historical colonial background, and the power dynamics within institutional museum collections. Presented as an “imagined artifact exhibition”, 11,565 is a visual archive built upon the medium of photography, artifact journey tracing, artifact reproduction, image collection, and historical scholarship research. This project seeks to maintain that, as carriers of history, many artifacts that are removed from their place of origin are re-incorporated into museum collections across different cultural systems. Undergone the process of textualization, the historical narratives residing in artifacts are institutionalized and obscured by “inauthenticity”. As participants of history, artists can prompt the creation of new historical narratives. 11565KM project extends its artistic dialogue to museums’ broader circulation of artifacts,antiques, and decolonial praxis. Utilizing the story of Object#40-35-4 as the central pavement, Beichen Zhang, Yantong Li constructed Unstranded Archive. The Archive reimagines the role of digitization within the context of the repatriation of artifacts. It probes the possibilities of communal circulation of artifacts free of institutional interference while simultaneously advocating for multidimensionality and imagination within contemporary repatriation and decolonial praxis.