My work investigates potential new understandings of the relationship between individuals and objects and the space they inhabit in the context of a rapidly developing global urban landscape. The constant reconstruction of familiar spaces provokes one’s romanticised melancholy for a lost place and a sense of misplaced identity. This is not only limited to the identity of diasporas but of all the 'unsettled' in today’s globalised society. My practice resides in the Chinese aesthetic and philosophy of 'leaving blank', which privileges the relational and the untold. The emotion is rather complicated. On one hand, I adore modern architecture and its clean lines; not only aesthetically but the image of a metropolis is embedded in my memory of my hometown. It is a part of the city’s identity and therefore mine. On the other hand, of course what I remembered has been taken down. The conflict between civilisation and nature, social development and individuals' interests bothers me deeply. Do my works attempt to call for a viable collective resistance? I don’t know but probably not. They are only calling memories, sensations of loss and longing – but not anger; they are not asking to give these things back.

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Live this way until, 2021  

mild steel, sterling silver, cotton thread, concrete

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