I’m a photographer and a visual artist. My work frequently incorporates photographs, printed images on fabric, metal, and found objects, exploring themes such as family, memory, the physicality of human trace and body.
Prints of No-one and Half Hour are two projects included in the portfolio that's inspired by artist Odette England. I use family photos to explore my mother's career as a civil engineer and my grandmother's buddhism practice, the vital life experiences of two closest female family members of mine.
Mole Experiment is a metal sculpture, featuring my moles printed on fabric wrapping around stones. It’s a further exploration of the human body based on my previous work, Thin Layer, which is also included in the portfolio, a self portrait series that I place myself in a white fabric while assimilating the surroundings. Through working on Mole and Thin Layer, I temporarily removed the agency from my physical embodiment to investigate the potential ways of reconnecting with our own bodies.
After The Death Of Us is my most recent work. It depicts an adventure to search for something unnamed beneath the banal veneer of everyday routine, intangible but surely connected to the essence of life in new england, but was only left with traces of dissolution. In this series, I use the visual language that I’ve developed over years and it represents the most of where I stand as a photographer at the moment.
I was born in Daqing, China, and currently reside in Toronto.