Making art is a lifelong process of exploring life, forms and meaning. As Louise Bourgeois wrote in 1997, “Life is made of experiences and emotion.” She has never seized trying to mimic, honor, rediscover or surpass the beauty of life and the sublime meaning it carries by carrying on producing tangible art works. Mundane objects dominant most of her works. She enjoys observing the surroundings and camera is acting as my eyes. The films shot are largely based on her outsider perspective of seeing and her sentiment. Among them, the unexpected and abandoned ready-made objects particularly arise interest on her. For instance, Shattered Memories is a series of work deeply related to her personal life experience. While She believes that clothes have the ability to carry people’s traces, weary trousers, shirts of hers were combined with plaster to form cube sculptures.
She only has one pair of jeans at a time, and she wears it every single day. Each time when she puts on her trousers, she can feel that there is a shape of her body gradually developing on it. After three years, the black trousers started to tear apart from the knees, then bottom, and to extend that it could not be worn anymore. At the point that it was completely free from function, and she therefore noticed its unique form and aesthetic. More to its expressive appearance, it also carried the time and the memory of everyday routine. She attempted to conserve it in a container, and therefore she started this series of fabric and plaster.
Steph Huang
(Interview)