CHEN
Qian
Xun

Walk with me 2025

Walking has long been closely associated with thinking and reflection. As the body moves in one of its most natural states, the mind is set free to wander in language and get lost in thoughts. In Walk with me, the audience is invited to join a walk with some white cylindrical objects. The message is inscribed onto their bodies, which are made out of porcelain, a material that is both strong and delicate, opaque and translucent. They share the characteristics of what language can be and become the carriers of the message. They carry weights inside them, and it is this heaviness that brings them forward and makes them write. Through rolling, the text on the porcelain body is imprinted on the sand beneath it. Its trace of walking is its message. To uncover the full message, the audience must walk alongside these rolling objects, engaging in a physical and reflective act of discovery.

Walk with me Talk with me
Sense with me Dream with me
Write with me Think with me
Walk with me Be with me

Walk with me is an invitation to an intimate moment, the time spent together, and a space of reflection. In walking, all the writing, talking, thinking, sensing, and dreaming merges into being. A kind of being-in-the-world, while being with language.



The project is realized within the framework of a master thesis Walking the Boundary of the Boundless, an exploration of language at its edge through both writing and artistic practice. Spcial thanks to my supervisors Prof. Ralf Baecker and Dr. Nicolás Novoa Artigas for all the critiques and feedbacks sessions.

Credits:
Photo Documentation by : Jimi Liu