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Cherry blossoms are fragile, beautiful and light. Grasping flowers with hands symbolizes a desire to grasp something beautiful, fragile but perishable in life. When the flowers fall, when the opportunity comes, some are caught and some are lost. Those caught are only temporary possessions. Trying to catch flowers, trying to catch something good but easy to lose. During the Covid pandemic, filmmaker Wei Gao started planting and gardening. Taking care of plants every day, she discovered that humans are as fragile as plants. We try to catch things in life, some succeed, some miss. “The unbearable lightness of being.”

Gao Wei is an independent photographer and filmmaker, living and working between Seoul and Paris. She graduated from the School of Photography, Beijing Film Academy, China. She previously worked in the media industry in Beijing. Currently, her artistic practice is mainly created through still and moving images. Practices involve multiple media such as photography, super 8mm, 16mm film, video and image experiments. She held solo exhibitions in Paris, France and Seoul, South Korea in 2022. One of her films was selected in the 2023 Rotterdam International Film Festival, and several of her films were screened at art festivals and institutions in New York, Seoul, Paris and Chengdu.