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STATEMENT OF WORK
I was born and raised in Hangzhou, China, and is a moving image and installation artist. I currently lives and works in Baltimore.
My work focuses on human mobility. Working from the perspective of the individual, at times myself, my work explores the profound transformations of space, power relations, and social networks faced by a mobile population. While I was originally inspired by the Chinese context, where the blistering pace of social and economic change has made migration an inevitability for millions, I uses this history as an aperture, playing with scale and moving beyond place, exploring how mobility is internalized and migration felt in the body.
Passive Capture emerges as a central theme within my installations, with works made to explore the intricate interplay between the human desire for a sense of belonging and the relentless pursuit of change.
In my works, themes are realized through sculptures and videos which appropriate everyday life scenes based on my semi-fictional writings. My artistic practice is heavily influenced by cinema-as-medium, particularly light and staging, interviews, rumor, and intergenerational story-telling.