"Boys will gladly go to war for you"
2014
C-type Photograph
76.2 x 76.2cm
Edition of 4 + artist's proof
“So, you’ll die for honour”
2014
C-type Photograph
76.2 x 76.2cm
Edition of 4 + artist's proof
“I should have prayed to the ancestors for luck”
2014
C-type Photograph
76.2 x 76.2cm
Edition of 4 + artist's proof
“I will never pass for a perfect bride or a perfect daughter”
2014
C-type Photograph
76.2 x 76.2cm
Edition of 4 + artist's proof
“A pendant for balance”
2014
C-type Photograph
76.2 x 76.2cm
Edition of 4 + artist's proof
"Quiet and demure... graceful, polite, delicate, refined, poised... punctual!”
2014
C-type Photograph
76.2 x 76.2cm
Edition of 4 + artist's proof
“Mulan, stay inside”
2014
C-type Photograph
76.2 x 76.2cm
Edition of 4 + artist's proof
“Staring straight back at me”
2014
C-type Photograph
76.2 x 76.2cm
Edition of 4 + artist's proof
“I should never have left home”
2014
C-type Photograph
76.2 x 76.2cm
Edition of 4 + artist's proof
“Who spit in her bean curd?”
2014
C-type Photograph
76.2 x 76.2cm
Edition of 4 + artist's proof
“We’re going to turn this sow’s ear into a silk purse”
2014
C-type Photograph
76.2 x 76.2cm
Edition of 4 + artist's proof
"You're a Good Chinese Girl"
"You're a Good Chinese Girl" is the phrase my Aunty says to me as I scrub the graves of my grandparents. But I am not "a good Chinese girl". I am not even fully Chinese.
The complex identifications of East and West that engulf a person who is half Chinese and half Australian are immense. The Disney film Mulan (1998) represent both a small fragment and a huge portion of this complexity. Growing up the character Mulan quickly became my Chinese idol, and yet ironically she was created by white America. As an autobiographical work " You're a Good Chinese Girl" is about being raised in a Western society amidst pop-culture representations of Chinese culture. As a political work
It critically reflects in the binaries we still live by: East/West; Male/Female; Asian/Caucasian. This work is about the bizarre floating space where you are neither one nor the other and yet at the same time a perfect blend of both.
Installed at 'Disobedient Daughters' Exhibition - Metro Arts, Brisbane QLD - 2018