Path. 8, Invisible Cities 。云海游 is a meditation—through movement and mark-making—on imagined homelands and their interiorities. The title references Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities, in which Marco Polo recounts fantastical cities to Kublai Khan. The Chinese characters 云海游 carry layered meanings, including “cloud sea flowing” and “to speak of maritime travels".

In this live art, Boedi Widjaja walked through the streets of Venice pushing a sail carriage, inspired by 16th-century European accounts of sail carriages seen in Ming Dynasty China—the era of Zheng He’s naval voyages across Southeast Asia and beyond. As he moved through the city, Boedi transposed its textures onto the sail fabric, collecting frottages from liminal spaces where land meets water—wells, canal edges, and promenades.The act underscores the conjoined spectral and visceral imaginations to a place, of sensing the environment through the layered subjectivities of personal, cultural, historical and political time-spaces.