A Place to Call Home
2023
Installation









The piece creates its own space within the white cube. With the curtains hanging from the wall, concealing most of the bodies and photos inside, the experience is a discovery through the sanctuary protected by the semicircular fabric. The needles poking out through the curtain create an intangible distance protecting itself through the minimal gesture. With the sides opening to reveal the inside, audiences are forced to peep along the wall, dismantle the protected manner of the piece and represent the outside view of a family unit as one only sees a minimal surface without knowing the deeper relations that are partially revealed when observed. The red wrap around the portraits of me and my parents symbolizes the inseparable bonds of family and roots, visually bound by the red stretch wrap yet mentally bound through the same blood running through the vein - a unit of security and constraint. It is a life-long journey of growing up in this unit of ties tangled with complex emotions.