# Project Description

Someday

Enyi Tang

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Enyi Tang is a visual artist working across photography, installation, and moving image. Attuned to the overlooked details of everyday life, she reconfigures familiar objects through abstract logic, allowing them to take on new symbolic meaning. Through the reconstruction and redefinition of found materials, her work explores how objects accumulate emotion over time and perception, becoming part of a visual narrative.

Enyi Tang is a visual artist working across photography, installation, and moving image. Attuned ...

College London College of Communication

Course BA (Hons) Photography

Graduation year 2025

Each day of human life seems to be a process of constructing memory—fragmented, repetitive. Yet time is relentless and realistic, nothing is permanent. Memory drifts and flips, shimmering like soap bubbles under sunlight—unpredictable, ungraspable, slowly drifting away until it vanishes completely.

One day, we remember. And someday, we forget.

Someday is an installation composed of bars of soap, each encapsulating a common object from daily life. These soap blocks are arranged on a stainless steel sheet, forming a reflective surface of time, and exploring themes of memory and cyclical temporality. In this work, soap is no longer a functional object of cleanliness, but rather a container silently carrying memories—a symbol of continual cycles. As an item designed to gradually disappear, soap resonates with the ephemeral nature of memory. We constantly rub and wash with it, as if erasing the traces of daily life. Yet, in doing so, it quietly records the trace, scent and shape of touch. Every use is both an act of erasure and a creation of new traces. It shrinks, transforms, and eventually disappears—then to be replaced by another, repeating the cycle endlessly.

Inside these translucent soaps, mundane objects—keys, pencils, coffee, scraps of paper—are suspended in stillness. Once frequently used, these items are now immobilized, encased in a state of never being touched again, entering a static and fragile eternity.

In this temporary archive of memory, the arrangement of objects suggests a rhythm of cycles: being used, forgotten, recalled, and forgotten once again. The viewer is confronted not only with sealed objects, but also with their own unconscious loops—of routine, memory, and emotion. The faint reflection on the stainless steel below the soap hints at the viewer’s own image, turning each moment of viewing into a dialogue between self and memory. Your reflection moves, distorts, and vanishes, much like the emotional memories once tied to these objects. However, the soaps will eventually dissolve; the objects may re-emerge. But will we still remember what they once meant?

Someday is both a futile attempt to preserve memory and a quiet stare at the mechanisms of forgetting.

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Each day of human life seems to be a process of constructing memory—fragmented, repetitive. Yet time is relentless and realistic, nothing is permanent. Memory drifts and flips, shimmering like soap bubbles under sunlight—unpredictable, ungraspable, slowly drifting away until i...

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