THEY is a solo exhibition that includes a four channel film installation, four photographs, a neon sign (I am A Rainbow), a installation, velvet curtains,  and a 2 hour live performance.

The entire gallery was painted with dark teal color and covered by green velvet curtains. When viewers enter the gallery, they pass green velvet curtains and are presented with four photographs of the four characters in the video. On the left wall , there is a  48” x20” pink neon sign, “I am A Rainbow, ” that leads viewers to the video installation. There is also a large enclosed staircase for viewers to sit to watch the videos, inside the staircase is fully covered by hundreds of colourful texts:

I am a rainbow.
I am a rainbow.
Are you a rainbow too?

viewers can see the text installation through cut thin gap on two side of staircase.

They takes audiences into four women’s world to closely examine their ritualized daily lives, their obsessions, their struggles, and their determinations of being who they are. The four women are different but mirror each other: they deal with difficult transitions, ambivalent relationships, and desires that trouble them while also celebrating their own existences in a subversive but almost meditative way. The title of this film is derived from the gender-neutral pronoun they. They in this film is both singular and plural, referring women as unique individuals who are plural, but whose bodies have been marked as the other.

My approach to the subject matter in this film is underlining women’s bodies as a site for social political transgression and resistance. Through employing symbolic gestures, poetic rhythms and repetitions, this film reveals a complex reflection on how identities are mediated through screens and performances, and how they arrive to us through time. This multi-channel film installation draws from cinematic and performance traditions, striving to create new visual narratives that enable audiences to experience temporal dimension of the body directly, at the same time, providing a key for understanding corporal power in today’s digital era.

For the live performance, please visit
https://chunhuacatherinedong.com/portfolio/they-performance/

The film available upon request