SIGNATURE WORK
CONFERENCE & EXHIBITION 2023

My signature work is an exploration of female intergenerational relations in a patriarchal context. I use photography and installation art as the main media to create a set of autobiographical and semi-fictional visual art works. In this work My Great-grandmother, My Grand Aunt, My Grandmother, My Mother, and I, I revisited the histories of my female elders where I recreated scenes from the lives of four generations of women in my family and represented this narrative in a dramatically vivid way. By introducing a private interpretation of historical events, and adding photographic intervention, I created a new degree of reality, a potentially more plausible, yet fictional world. The long-term goal of this project is to use art to focus on the intergenerational relationships of women in a patriarchal environment. By focusing on my own past and complex family structure, I hope that my artworks will interact with the static patriarchal art world and draw viewers’ attention to two long-neglected social issues: perverse gender inequality and intergenerational relations in Chinese society.