Me+Them

My work revolves around the alienation of the female body, the manipulation of identity, the deconstruction and reassembly of everyday structures, and the migration of collective memory. I examine how power operates on the body, how it reshapes the perception of female identity within social and cultural structures, and how it extends and transforms through language, labor, and material space. Through installations, textiles, and performance art, I appropriate everyday objects and traditional crafts, using deconstruction and reconstruction to create a sense of discomfort between the familiar and the uncanny, revealing the fractures in seemingly accepted social norms.

In my work, the body is not only a vessel for personal experience but also a site of power’s influence. Within the framework of the Chinese language system, women are often disciplined into being "obedient" and "enduring." This conditioning is not only embedded in language but also manifests in posture, movement, clothing, and even the spatial distribution of domestic life. I seek to deconstruct these seemingly natural orders, challenge the passively accepted norms, and create spatial and visual dislocations that prompt viewers to reflect on their own positions within these structures.

My practice also explores the migration and reconstruction of collective memory. Cultural fluidity and shifting identities often bring fractures and reconfigurations in memory. When a daily practice is placed in a new environment, does it remain recognizable? How is memory reconstructed, altered, or redefined through migration? In my work, I appropriate symbols from different cultural contexts and relocate them in unfamiliar spaces, investigating how memory generates new meanings through spatial and temporal displacement.

Through these explorations, I aim to challenge existing social frameworks, expose contradictions within cultural and gender constructs, and create new ways of seeing through displacement and reconfiguration.