MADE IN CHINA is a three-channel video installation filmed in Manzhouli, a Chinese border town located along the 4,200-kilometer frontier between China and Russia—one of the longest land borders in the world. As a major crossing point on the “New Silk Road,” Manzhouli plays a key role in rail-based trade between the two countries.

My grandfather traveled here more than 33 times in the 1990s as a shuttle trader, often filming his journeys. Thirty years later, I return to a radically transformed city—now a surreal landscape of oversized Matryoshka dolls, fiberglass mammoths, and replicas of Russian landmarks.

I move through hotel lobbies, markets, and empty squares, tracing the remnants of past exchanges. Using found footage, on-site recordings, and layered narration, the work reflects on circulation, transformation, and the hybrid aesthetics of a contested border.