Performance length: 2.5 hours
Year：2021
Location: G Museum, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
Artist Statement:
During the performance, I repeated the floor-mopping route of the cleaning lady, Madam Liu each morning. I covered my regular eyesight with a fabric and looked out my way through my cell phone camera. It pushed me to mainly focus on the ground, which is also the major subject that Madam Liu spends hours taking care of everyday.
Each morning, when Madam Liu’s doing her floor-mopping job, her supervisor would visit her and use smart phone to take a picture of her working in the galleries and send it to the management Wechat group chat immediately, as a prove of Madam Liu is working hard and also a prove for the supervisor himself, that he is doing his job and checking others on time.
video credit to Gaoshuyi
video credits to Gaoshuyi
Dust-free Chatroom
(previous title: Screen)
time: 2018
Medium: latex gloves filled with water, video, text, Foxconn uniform with the artist’s period blood, Foxconn employment contract (chewed)
Statement: This project was inspired by the artist's experience of working in Foxconn factory in Chengdu, China during March 2017. As a worker in the assembly line for the new MacBook, her task was to check the screens and prepare the glue around the screen.
full video link: https://vimeo.com/309767597/19ed92dccd
full video link: https://vimeo.com/309768513/938ed48bb7
Packing
打包
Time: 2018
Medium: videos, found objects, petri dishes, microbes collected from the artist’s home, found objects
Statement: Inspired by my grandmother who got Alzheimer and kept packing all her stuff everyday, I meditate around memories, belongings, and how tangible or intangible they are.
full video link: https://vimeo.com/309751980/f264c7e21e
Text translation (left to right):
1. One day, I suddenly realized my mirror was tilted.
2. The ceiling lamp was so low that my head always hit it.
3. This dryer was useless.
4. We had so many good memories with this bathtub.
5. In summer, one time we opened the window and three flies came in.
6. From this balcony, we saw countless people peeing outside.
( installation view )
Stalking Josephine
Year: 2016-2017
Mixed Media
Note:
1. Josephine is the previous tenant of my current apartment.
2. I didn’t know about English names very well. Therefore, at the beginning, I thought Josephine was male, who used to sleep on the bed I was sleeping on.
3. Audiences are welcome to go inside the installation and view her mail.
Photo credits to Jiaqi Pan
