Chopping
2011
HD Video .MOV File (MPEG 4 Decode)
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This video piece aims at examining the small neurotic behaviours of our everyday lives - in particular the rigorous movement created in our domestic environment. It reflects on ideas of feminism, and how cooking is also a very machine-like and gruesome endeavour marked by both endurance and pain.
Inspired by Marina Abramovic's "Onion" and Martha Rosler's "Semiotics of the Kitchen".
HD Video .MOV File (MPEG 4 Decode)
1920 x 1080
This video piece aims at examining the small neurotic behaviours of our everyday lives - in particular the rigorous movement created in our domestic environment. It reflects on ideas of feminism, and how cooking is also a very machine-like and gruesome endeavour marked by both endurance and pain.
Inspired by Marina Abramovic's "Onion" and Martha Rosler's "Semiotics of the Kitchen".
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Stairs2010
Ink Jet Print 12 inches by 40 inches This is a reinterpretation of Marcel Duchamp's "Nude Descending a Staircase No.2" 1912. Exit stairs pathways are often times a place where we pass by without noticing particularly and a place where we find ourselves suffocating from the enclosure. This piece depicts the feelings and emotions of those who are trying to escape this passing moment. |
The Beauty in The Ugly
2010
Image & Sound. AVI Video File
Our current society is so obsessed with the idea of beauty as an exterior commodity that we often forget what it really means to be beautiful. This project aims to make the view question and to create new emotional feedback in response to the the exterior beauty of the imagery in contrast with the word "ugly". The composite imagery are of 4 attractive individuals layered together. Based on psychological study, we are conditioned to find the most average or composite face the most beautiful among all faces. Thus, by contrasting the beauty of the people and by having them saying "I am ugly," it aims to question the very foundation on what makes them beautiful? what makes them ugly? who decides?
Inspired by Marina Abraovic's video performance where she violently brushes her hair while saying "I am beautiful." She uses her own beauty as an objectification of women, while her anger as a response to this objectification can be seen through the anger and rage in the action of combing her hair. This work plays with this idea of taking beauty but distorting it in an unusual yet compelling way that will make the viewer see the conflicting dilemma in the objectification of the physical beauty.
Image & Sound. AVI Video File
Our current society is so obsessed with the idea of beauty as an exterior commodity that we often forget what it really means to be beautiful. This project aims to make the view question and to create new emotional feedback in response to the the exterior beauty of the imagery in contrast with the word "ugly". The composite imagery are of 4 attractive individuals layered together. Based on psychological study, we are conditioned to find the most average or composite face the most beautiful among all faces. Thus, by contrasting the beauty of the people and by having them saying "I am ugly," it aims to question the very foundation on what makes them beautiful? what makes them ugly? who decides?
Inspired by Marina Abraovic's video performance where she violently brushes her hair while saying "I am beautiful." She uses her own beauty as an objectification of women, while her anger as a response to this objectification can be seen through the anger and rage in the action of combing her hair. This work plays with this idea of taking beauty but distorting it in an unusual yet compelling way that will make the viewer see the conflicting dilemma in the objectification of the physical beauty.
