Keep My Image Forever
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永留我影 Keep My Image Forever (2025), Single-Channel Video (color, no sound), 3'03", loop Outside of Yunnan, zoos are the only place in China where Asian elephants can be seen, and in Wuhan in the 1950s, before they were domesticated in zoos, a sculpture of a white elephant on the East Lake bank became an aid to imagining elephants for the locals, and thus a famous photographic site for decades to come. Across different historical contexts, how has this Asian elephant sculpture become an apparatus that continues to attract people's attention? Based on nearly 100 photos of the white elephant of East Lake spanning more than 30 years, Cheng Xinhao attempts to reconstruct another kind of imagination with AI. This work is generated by Vidu AI (www.vidu.cn). Special thanks to Wu Ziyang and Li Ran.