26 x 22cm
Photo-book winner, Belfast Photo Festival 2024, Belfast, UK
“She thought of the coming night of her death, of all that she had lost in the world.” Does the Little Mermaid realize that the soul she seeks belongs to the voices and words constructed by patriarchal discipline? On the night before her/its death, she/it may have sensed that the undersea witch had made the same attempt - persuring the soul of a human male - and failed. They share similar dilemmas between women/man, non-human/human, ocean/land, and even matriarchy/patriarchy.
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Polaroid, polystyrene spiegel, sea shell
40 x 40cm, 60 x 60cm, 30 x 30cm, 40 x 40cm, 30 x 30cm, 25 x 25 cm
With the metaphor of "vacuum", this work visualizes the storyline of Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid. The word refers to a universal situation of disillusionment and moreover, impossibility. It is a collage of photographic transfer on reflective material, Polaroid, sea shells and steel frames. Memories can be tampered with, like the layers of enlarged blackand-white Polaroids, there will be misalignment, blurring, offsetting. The balance between them is as fragile as in real life, which is always fleeting and unpredictable, not always as firm and lasting as we wish. The mermaid, before the words fell on the following pages, how does she determine to create such a destiny? Does she realize the nature of water in herself, sense the destiny of women/other-than-human, something outside the dominant structure, and reborn from the violence, neglect, and failure she has suffered?
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single-channel animation with music
4’44” music "Innocence" by iu takahashi
It focuses on the act of calligraphic writing as a ritual of conjuring, while the video is playing the poetry as writing on the water. It is born out of the alchemical obsession of ancient China and the soul-evocation rituals of East Asian societies. Inspired by The Magic Brush, a Chinese fairy tale, the work responds to it in the sense of bringing things to life through the brush. The presentation thus references traditional Chinese calligraphy framing (with textile scroll), while it is given a more contemporary look in this piece, and some elements of playfulness are also added. While the invisible brushes give life to the words, the written words also summon the invisible.
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are the project's transition referring to the different levels of regeneration, disintegration, and becoming. They are like twins with the same pattern, having different choices but achieving a similar destiny. They reflect on the creation issue from an individual to a macroscopical perspective. One happens in an enclosed space, while the other one is in an open and natural environment.
Double-channel video performance
TV, Rice paper 02'02'', colored
Moonset is an inner theater, a dream inserted in between life and death. Inspired by a traditional Chinese fairy tale, there is a blank body and life on top of a blank scroll. Words of the mother language, are written on the blank and pure body by the people of all black. The mirror is set next to the creature, reflecting the replicating and loss of ego, desire. The relation is mercurial and ambiguous: the creator seems isolated and bitter, while the creature desperate to leave strong traces.
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erformance photography
Moonrise positions the two performers as summoner and what is being summoned, inspired by the story of Frankenstein. In the crisis-ridden remains of natural environments and human activities, it further reflects the r e l a t i o n s a n d i n t e r - transformation between the creation and the creator, nature and technology, desire and i n s t i n c t , a l i e n a t i o n a n d domestication. It is seen as an allegorical myth with open end and narration circulation. This time, the creature owns intelligence and the body is written with Nüshu (which means female writing, a language system created and used only for women). The embodied experience and legacy of women produce endless life force. Individual struggle and suffer can transform into mutual empathy and understanding
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Stone, hot-melt adhesive, silver paint size viable
Clinkstone is derived from a type of rock that produces sound under external p r e s s u r e . T h e p o e m a d op t s t h e perspective of a stone, describing its power at fight with the external forces of nature, such as wind, fire, and water. To maintain itself, it endures and breaks into pieces. Therefore, this piece is designed to be flexibly produced, according to different locations. Stones is ubiquitous, in city, in countryside, in nature, in universe. Its efforts and presence is declared in silence and stillness.
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6x8cm
The poem is written from the perspective of a stone, reflecting on its power as it contends with external forces of nature —wind, fire, and water. To preserve its form, it endures these challenges, breaking apart in the process. This zine features a stone-shaped design, with each piece of text layered over photographs that capture stones in various states, visually complementing the themes in the writing
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Single-channel video performance 5'54''
colored, with sound
Murder becomes a piece of stone as in her poetry Clinkstone. Stones are no longer passive and silent but full of aggression and strength. The disciplined body, immersed in a prolonged period of unseen violence, accomplishes selfreconciliation in a desperate way. The stones stand in the form of mystical matrix on a temperature-reactive textile, demanding strong presence of their existence through temperature and color. Paint-filled balloons are like human bodies of flesh and blood. Bursting against the stones, two distinct traits, soft and hard, smooth and rough, supple and stubborn, release their suppression and selflimitation from gender conflicts and social hierarchy .
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size variable
A woman's body takes the shape of the nature, becoming the ecosystems that feed and nourish the world. Her body is covered with Nüshu (means female writing), a writing system created and used only by women. Inspired by the mythology of goddesses worldwide, the universal SHE, has the power in herself and she could be everything, grand mountains, flowing rivers, growing plants, or fleeting clouds. What we need might always be inside oursleves to be awaken. Therefore, to create suitable pairings for the work, we refuse to generate new consumptions, and look for answers in ourselves from the remains of our past activities, to evoke their energy
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