The Clivia Street
「 君子兰大街 」
2025
dimension variable
double-channel videos on monitors, recordings on audios, image on projector, plastic, PMMA, dried flowers in plastic, glass, film photography on paper, LED lights, maps, ice cubes, 3D-printed models, broken mirrors, alum on textile and iron wire, cross-stitch on cotton, baby crib
The Clivia Street is a fictional location that exists between a city map and a global map, where a funeral and a newborn celerfation are happening simultaneously in the same formality in a melting global world. It is made of the traumatic leftovers from personal history, family history, generational history.
君子兰 Clivia is the city flower, which carries long colonial history worldwide and triggers economic bubble in the city. It is placed on a rotating platform, a setup that often occurs during family reunions and festivals.
君子 The gentleman and 兰 the orchid have long been symbols of moral exemplars and universal ideals for the Chinese literati and Confucian culture, yet their origins and historical development have been the result of a process of gradual marginalization of women - generations of beliefs that have excluded them. Then is the concept of global citizen in my generation, does it exist?
Life grows out of a history of colonization by the Other, of self-injury, and as a translator within it, to translate is sometimes to betrayal: Is trans-cultural equality within reach?