I came here to be alone – I also came here to be alone

The group exhibition I came here to be alone – I also came here to be alone draws inspiration from a 1959 film Baltic Express by Jerzy Kawalerowicz, which revolves around the communication between two strangers, forced to co-exist in confined conditions – the claustrophobic world of a tight train cabin. The train journey is a catalyst which tests what kind of chemistry can be created in unstable and uncertain conditions. From the perspective of a passenger, everything in the world is in motion, while from the perspective of someone not on the train it is quite the opposite. Baltic Express reflects on these two phenomena and focuses on a pivotal moment in time. Every story we tell or read about home or about our recent history, now has a different landscape looking out of the window of this train. The world as we know it is no longer the same, and our imaginative space has transformed.

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We can be alone together
(Table, sands, glass, stones and found objects, dimension variable)



Hope you are doing well
(Hard folders, cutting mat, caculator, table lamp, computer and found objects, dimension variable)

My Heart Aches When It’s Time To Leave

Master Thesis Question: What is home?  

This project began with longing for a home since I left Hong Kong due to the unhealthy political environment. Emotional security, a significant feeling that has been lingering in my mind, became the core element for defining a home for myself. The installation refers to the philosophy of Tai Chi and is divided into Yin and Yang through three different exhibition locations. Through the interchanging dynamic between my internal feeling and external living environment, it seeks to reveal the characteristics of human nature and emotions related to home.

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Our Memories Just Won’t Die, It’s The Trip That Keep Us Alive

The title of the work Our memories just won’t die, it’s the trip that keeps us alive reflects my feelings on memories with the people I loved in the past. By disassembling the physical structure of the chairs to reassemble the parts into a frame, showing the process of transforming the external object into internal feeling; a physical and tangible household object transformed into intangible emotion and memory.

I cut off one leg from both chairs, and made a frame for putting the fabric that I took from it. I took off the floral and leaf pattern from the fabric and I followed the colourful thread from the pattern, I took them out one by one and colour by colour. Since I took off the pattern from the fabric, the surface is no longer completed and it seemed something is absent or missing. At the end, the picture faded. I turned those little threads into cotton yarn balls, and then put them next to the chairs.