您身上的衬衫 (the shirt on your body)
2024, Charcoal on Transparency, Dimensions Variable
At once a gesture of love and grief, 您身上的衬衫 whispers the absence (or perhaps, presence) of the artist’s late grandmother through every stroke carved in space. Grappling with the traces of life left behind by her grandmother, she finds comfort in the blouse her grandmother sewed for herself, but had now been discarded. A charcoal grasped tightly in hand, the artist meditates on the process of reconstructing the blouse, forming blurred presences that coalesce to a space of solace. As 您身上的衬衫 knits itself through space, the artist invites you to weave through the porous in-betweens, to stitch and fill absences left behind by a loved one, and to be entangled in traces of emotion inscribed on fragile sheets of plastic — in loving memory of her grandmother.
The work positions itself within a dialogue between disciplines—photography and spatial installation—yet resists settling fully into either. Instead, it dwells in their intersection to accentuate the materiality of the image itself. This convergence urged a search for points of synchrony: where image finds resonance with surface, and surface with space and display. But more intimately, it became a way of holding—of staying with—the slow, quiet shifts the artist observed on my parents’ skin. In tracing their pores, their creases, their changing textures, she was not only capturing time’s movement, but attempting to pause within it. The work is an act of refusal: to let them slip into finality. Instead, it suspends them in the in-between, where love lives in tension with fear, and presence continues to unfold.