Throughout history, my family traveled, exiled, immigrated or emigrated. With the changes of nations’ borders, governments and collective memories, we are sometimes invaders, sometimes victims, sometimes natives, sometimes foreigners, or even barbarians. Who am I then? How do “I” associate with “we”?

 

The ghost images of identities those shifts create fascinate me. Within the constant chaos of constructions and deconstructions of collective identities, individuals’ confusions reveal a great deal of human nature that are overlooked by the wheels of history. Through printmaking, artist’s books and installations, I carefully visit the ruins of collective identities’ construction sites, and document the subtle uneasiness when one can not fully imagine an “imagined community.”

 

In an archival and repetitive way, I aim to preserve the individuals’ tiny and banal awkwardness under the soothing grand nation-state narratives. Humanity hides in the awkward moments, especially in a fast polarizing world.