Wu Wei was raised by her grandparents. After they passed away one after another, she traveled to the town and the old house where her grandparents lived and worked to listen to the stories of their youth. Several times she returned to the home where her grandparents had lived together for seventeen years, immersing herself in stale time and space, opening sealed left behinds, organizing their lives, and fitting photographs she had once taken of her grandmother into the rooms of the present. Wu Wei also traveled to the sites of their shared trips and stood in the same place to photograph the sites, imposing the existing space, her present-day self, and souvenir photos of their past trips to create a fictionalized version of their true feelings. A Life of Fen and Fang encompasses Wu Wei's eponymous photographic series, as well as textual creations such as essays and poems.
19*28.5 cm, 168p. April, 2023. Second edition of 500 copies published by After Intermission.
吴为是外公外婆带大的孩子。在老人相继过世后，她去到外公外婆生活和工作的老屋与县城，倾听他们年轻时的故事。数次重回一起居住了十七年的家，浸入陈旧的时空，打开封存的遗物，整理他们的人生，将曾经为外婆拍摄的照片，贴合进入现在的房间。还前往共同旅游的景点，站在原地拍摄，将现有空间、如今的自己，和过往的旅行纪念照三者叠加，创造虚构的真情。《芬芳一生》涵盖了吴为的同名系列摄影作品，以及散文和诗歌等文字创作。
