Five years ago, while photographing ‘The Naming of a River’, I tried to cross the Panlong river here to find the confluence of its two tributaries, but was almost washed away. This became a perceptual event that I could not get around. In 2018, I returned to the river crossing on a cold winter night, carrying a wood log to complete the crossing that I failed before.

五年前拍攝“對一條河流的命名”時，為了尋找盤龍江兩條支流的交匯處，我試圖在此地過河，然而差點被水沖走。這成為了我無法繞開的一次感知事件。2018年，時過境遷，在一個寒冷的冬夜，我回到曾經的渡河處，扛着一根木頭完成了之前沒有完成的穿越。

Cheng Xinhao (b.1985 in Yunnan Province, China) currently lives and works in Kunming, China. He received his Ph.D in Chemistry from Peking University in 2013. Cheng’s works are usually based on long-term field studies, centered around his hometown in Yunnan Province. With videos, installations, photographs and words, he personally investigates the polyphonic relationships between logic, discourses, knowledge, and the ways in which nature, society, and history play within them.