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Wandering in the night, floating in the dark. Video filmed in February 2011 in Bamako, Mali, in the district Djicoroni Para, with the broadcast of muezzin`s calls. By the lacking of public street lighting, the landscape of the street is nothing familiar to us. The whole environment has changed. Houses, stores, waste, plants, even clothes of the passengers, everything is fading in the dark. We see the lights and shadows, the images taken. The movement of light and shadow built the memory of the territory that floats in time.

After his graduation as an engineer in industrial design in 2007, WANG Lingjie decided to continue his journey of creation by a more challenging and fundamental way, which leads him to start a 5 years study in contemporary art. WANG Lingjie has a various interests and so in the early years, he explored some different domains include: information technology, ecology and architecture, which he integrate to his creation of art works. Some after, influenced by his political background and thoughts of idealism, the artist focus his practices to installation, photography and video/motion picture which involve both fiction and documentary. By these mediums, he develops projects which reflect his thoughts on our existence, our relations with the nature and the univers. WANG Lingjie lives and works in Lorraine, France and Shanghai, China.