In the Changbai Mountains where the Yalu River, Songhua River and Tumen River meet lives an old woman of Korean ethnicity. She has practiced her religion there for seventeen years, gathering medicinal herbs and healing people. Over the years, she has established an intimate and mutually respectful relationship with the flora of the mountain. In the film, the old woman sits on a kang (heated bed) and recounts to the camera her experience as a spiritual practitioner, as well as numerous stories that touch on various plant and animal species. Her vivid accounts have a strangely mystical quality and are peppered with touching details about China’s rural Northeast. Her anecdotes have an everyday sensibility to them and unfold against the backdrop of this land of trans-species coexistence.
长白山的三江源头（鸭绿江、松花江、图们江）住着一位朝鲜族婆婆。 她在长白山的森林里修炼了17 年，采集草药，疗愈世人。长期以来，她与山中的动植物建立起不分彼此的亲密关系。影片中， 婆婆坐在炕上面对镜头讲述了她的修行经历，还有她众多的多物种故事。她的生动讲述带有奇异的神秘主义色彩，又糅杂着东北农村的琐碎和温馨。这种生活化的日常质感是跨物种共存在民间的底色和土壤。
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EXHIBITION HISTORY 展览历史
Liu Yujia：Mountains Tell Mountains Boo，MadeIn Art Museum，Shanghai，2023
“刘雨佳个展: 故事山脉”，没顶美术馆，上海，2023
Edges as the Center: Riverine Borders, Bridges and Memory Spaces between China, Mongolia, North Korea and Russia，G Museum，Nanjing，2023
“作为中心的边缘：东北亚的界河、桥梁与记忆空间”，金鹰美术馆，南京，2023
From The Other Hill，Beijing Jin Shangyi Art Foundation，Guardian Art Center, Beijing, 2023
“她山之石”,北京靳尚谊艺术基金会，嘉德艺术中心，北京，2023
Tales From the Confluence of Three Rivers，Double channel 4K film，Color, stereo sound，48' 40"，2023，5+2AP
三江源头故事集，双通道4K 影像，彩色，立体声，48 分40 秒，2023，5+2AP
