Igniting Echo
Homemade Sculpture 50*35*19.5 cm; Two Single-Channel Durational Performance; Projection Installation; Forged Maternity files 14(l) x 21(w) cm
2021-2022
Igniting Echo
Homemade Sculpture 50*35*19.5 cm; Two Single-Channel Durational Performance; Projection Installation; Forged Maternity files 14(l) x 21(w) cm
2021-2022
Delicated to my anutie Liu Hong and her stories that haven't been told yet. Credited to my female family, Liu Hong, Liu Yang, Liu Hui, Jin Keya, Li Huizhen.
If every generation of women
whose grief and losses in life
are passed down to the next generation
by their flesh and blood.
How long has this collective unconsciousness
inherited within our body memories?
Walking with 25KG Load
A single-channel video (color,sound) 2022
3'13''
When Hong went to the hospital alone, she walked for half an hour at a distance of 600 meters.
Alice in Bed
A single-channel video (color,sound) 2022
75'6''
Artist stayed in bed for three days wearing adult diapers and recorded my embodied thoughts and memory. Sometimes I thinking about my aunt‘s final moments or Content of Alice in Bed (Susan Sontag).Then, I started to commenced a critical examination of my situation as a woman body, comprehend the experiences of my female relatives and other women (proximate or remote).
I put the sculptures in places Hong often goes...
This is a story of Yixin's female family collectively facing together the inherited trauma and muted death.
Yixin lives in a big family surrounded by women. From a young age, she always thought they are lived in a perfect happiness big family. However, Hong's death slowly revealed the collective trauma of women in their family. They created a ritual with their female family collective for tending grief and united for self-care. Through process of working with Igniting echo, their female family let them realised that the harm, oppression, and discipline inflicted upon women by patriarchal society are not confined to a single person (era) but are insidiously inherited by women 's body across different generations, parasitically embedded within society.