I am very pleased announce that I will have a solo exhibition at DongGang Museum of Photography, Gangwon-do, Korea, as part of DongGang International Photo Festival. It is my great honour to be selected as “ The Artist of The Year,” by DongGang International Photo Festival. And my work “ Mother” will be exhibited in the museum, June 14-Sept 21, 2018.
“Mother” consists of 14 photographs and a video dedicating to my absent mother. Absence is a form of presence. Since my mother passed away, I went back to China where I was born and found 14 mothers who are my mother’s close friends and relatives. I bought a pair of floral embroidered traditional Chinese shoes to each mother as a gift, because my mother always loved the floral embroidered shoes. We took photographs together at each mother’s home where the mother wears the new shoes and I wear her cloth. After taking photos with each mother, I invited all mothers to come together for a group portrait.
This work seeks consolation and restores narrations of the past through visual expression of memories and loss, exploring relationship between life and death, human existence and universal emotions. I use re-enactment as a method of revisiting and re-imagining past to create scenarios of my mother visiting her birth place and meeting her childhood friends. Through using my own body to present my mother’s present, I reunite with my mother and become her. This work reveals how the mother/daughter relationship is experienced as a site of empowerment, and how memories cross time and space to create a new experience that not only transcends life and death, bridges past and present, but also transforms emotions and realities. “Mother” is an embodiment of a melancholic longing for an unrecoverable past and a memento mori: a reminder of the inexorable passage of time and the beautiful transience of human life.
I am pleased to announce that Contemporary Art Writing includes an essay about my work, written byHannah Doucet, into the publication. Contemporary Art Writing is published by aceartinc, Winnipeg, 2017
I am pleased to announce that I will give an artist talk at CENART (Centro Nacional de las Artes) La Esmeralda , Mexico City, on Feb 8, 2018.Time: Feb 8, 2018 at 4:00 pm -6:00 pm
Address: Av. Río Churubusco No. 79 Esq. Calzada de Tlalpan Col. Country Club Del. Coyoacán CP. 04220
Mexico City, Mexico 04220
I am very pleased to announce that my work, ” Husbands and I,” presented by La biennale de Quebec, will be exhibited at MAC VAL in France, October 20, 2017- January 28, 2018.
Exhibition Date: October 20, 2017- January 28, 2018
Opening: October 20, 2017 at 6:30 pm
Addess:Place de la Libération, 94400 Vitry-sur-Seine, France
I am pleased to announce that I will be performing a new durations piece, ” The Warrior ” at Harold J. Miossi Art Gallery, in San Luis Obispo, California, as part of at Inverse Performance Art Festival 1:00pm – 3:30pm, September 29, 2017
“The Warrior” is a durational performance that explores how to use self-care, a new feminist strategy of resistance, to transform violent conflicts. Recent feminist discourse discusses to the potential power and radical nature of embracing self-care to explore our vulnerabilities because if “I matter, we matter, we are transforming what matters.” In this performance, I employ the similar strategy to create a liminal being by subverting my body to a site of contradiction and satire. The war is not inevitable. Conflicts can be diffused and transformed; arms can be laid down for good. Peace may often be elusive, but it is within our grasp which is both a gift and a task. For me, what the most important thing in this performance is to create some positive and sustainable gestures/actions that have capabilities to transform violence without depicting violence itself. Through satirizing the role of armed-force and juxtaposing the meditative gestures, this performance not only reveals a powerful sense of self and openness, but also turns the battle ground to a harmonious meditation space that cherishes human dignity, peace with justice, and shared well-being.
