Home series

2023

SWEET DREAM

SWEET DREAM •

Sweet Home, mixed media, size variable, 2023

Pillar, stainless steel, wire, plaster, cement, fabric, wood, wool,

120×210cm, 2023

 

My research focuses on three keywords: Women, Hakka culture, and Self-awareness. In particular, the Hakka people are a unique and stable group formed by the Han Chinese people who gradually moved southwards and intermingled with the local indigenous people due to historical wars and famine and developed their dialect, folklore, and architecture during the long period of cultural interchange. Based on the author's own experiences, "Sweet Home" describes the life of a large family in Hakka culture and the power of women in it. It embraces elements of family beliefs and lineage transmission.

The design of the work is inspired by the architecture of generations living together, with different generations of family members living on different floors, observing and communicating with each other through the terrace. The sculptures symmetrically surround each other, forming a walled city that shows the kernel of family ties and unity.

Flags(Group sculptures), wood, stainless steel, wire, felt, plastic bead, size variable, 2023

Flags series of sculptures, represented as flames with traditional paper cutouts of dragons and tigers, guard the large building that represents the family and also represents the desire to break down. This is because, in Chinese Feng Shui, the left dragon and the right tiger are symbols that bless the family with happiness and prosperity. While the dragon is my mother's (non-Hakka) sign and the tiger is my sign, it also represents the cultural impact of the outside world and the power of the young people of the new age.

 

Untitled, stainless steel, wire, foam ball, felt, 90×70×90cm, 2023

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