SAIC Galleries 33 E Washington St, Chicago, IL
There was a huge temple in my grandparents’ village. It was burned in the 1960s. The people believed that Buddhism had moved to the trees that were taller than human beings. Instead of rebuilding the temple, they started to pray to the tallest tree in the village.
I walk around the marginal spaces of the cities I have lived in. While engaged in these spaces and their communities, I test the relationship between their bodies and their chairs. When a person sits on the chair, their body becomes the shape of the chair. If the chair is in its own intimate space, it can move around freely. If the chair is in a position of power, it is difficult to move. I make images and sound, perform and write as a means of responding to these observations.
How do people create their own safe spaces and free movements under the grand narrative of government regulation and globalization? When personal spaces become gentrified and marginalized, how does individual agency work?
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There was a huge temple in my grandparents’ village. It was burned in the 1960s. The people believed that Buddhism had moved to the trees that were taller than human beings. Instead of rebuilding the temple, they started to pray to the tallest tree in the village.
I walk around the marginal spaces of the cities I have lived in. While engaged in these spaces and their communities, I test the relationship between their bodies and their chairs. When a person sits on the chair, their body becomes the shape of the chair. If the chair is in its own intimate space, it can move around freely. If the chair is in a position of power, it is difficult to move. I make images and sound, perform and write as a means of responding to these observations.
How do people create their own safe spaces and free movements under the grand narrative of government regulation and globalization? When personal spaces become gentrified and marginalized, how does individual agency work?
photography printed on Adhesive Vinyl, Rice paper, Sunset Metallic, Transparency, Backlit Film,Photo-Tex, Vellum and Rag photographique
Picnic, 2022, Installation with performance event
This is a performance event happening with the Chair Practice project.It happened twice with the same format in front of different parts of the installation.
