让我从心认识您
(let me know you again)
2024, Tracing paper and plain paper bound in a book-like format
让我从心认识您 exhales the artist’s impulse to gain access to memories of her grandmother. Underpinning this work is a search for clarity, that intersperses throughout processes of reconnecting with unspoken pasts and of looking at and looking past memories shrouded (or shrivelled) in pain. Voicing a rediscovery (重新) from the heart (从心), the homophonic title reaches for a conversation with the artist’s grandmother: to locate her in the many facets of her character. In coalescing fragmented pieces, the artist reanimates memories by rephotographing found images, re-enacting quirks central to her grandmother, and incorporating dynamic zoetropic sequences. A work that’s process is steeped in the motion of unfolding, the work demands an intimacy and tenacity from viewers as it speaks the process of uncovering into existence. Sheets of translucent tracing paper emerging from hazy pasts and blurry memory, 让我从心认识您 invites viewers to, alongside the artist, celebrate the vibrant blueprint of the artist’s late grandmother.