Four Drawers #

2019-2023

The series of work started in 2019, two years after my great-grandmother died. At that time, I started to go back to her house; where she used to live, and where we used to live together, to rediscover her stories. Giving life back to my grandmother’s past, rediscovering the stories of the women in my family I grew up with before they even became mothers and grandmothers –captivated by who they are and were as individuals.

Grown-up in China, I was taught that individuals subscribe to collective values, but brought up by three generations of women in my family, I found each woman has a rich and abundant life outside of their assigned roles by society. All this led me to see and understand myself through their eyes and through my images of them.

The work was presented in a solo exhibition at Photographic Centre Peri, Turku, Finland, in 2023, and at BFoto Festival, Barbastro, Spain, in 2022. It was also exhibited in I Made You To Find Me at alpha nova & galerie futura, Berlin, Germany.

Installation View at Four Women, Solo Exhibition at Photographic Centre Peri, Turku Kunsthall, Finland, 2023

Mom’s Drawer, as part of Four Drawers, 2019-2023, Pigment print on fabric, 100x100cm.

Grandma and laceleaf , Installation View at I Made You To Find Me at alpha nova & galerie futura, Berlin, Germany, 2023

I lay on great-grandma’s bed, Installation View at I Made You To Find Me at alpha nova & galerie futur, Berlin, Germany, 2023