“Yi and Huahua’s House” is a multi-channel video installation. It discloses an old Chinese couple’s uncanny yet familiar mundaneness under their roof, where dwells silence, routines, aging bodies, isolation, dependency, and the accustomed, erratic, and repeated acts of violence. 

During years of my childhood, I was the observer in my grandparents’ house. I’d watched them lengthily in their secretive states. They rarely moved, though sometimes ambled through spaces in quietness. They joined each other on occasions while spending most of their time in separation.

I conceptualized the installation, attempting to understand the mystery in their relationship; to discover the truths that were hidden under their roles of the caretaker, and the disabled, tempered veteran. I deliberately filmed the scenes in meditative, durational manners, inviting the viewers’ consciousness to stream away and return at its own pace. 

Regarding the exhibition, I intend to examine the architecture of the installation, exercising spatial connections to create nuanced experiences. Space will be sectioned with both translucent (curtains) and solid projection materials to question the meanings between the exposed and the obscured, the fragile and the enduring.

Minimal, meaningful objects will be employed to underline the senses of touch and taste and to provoke the audiences’ physical connection to the work through the actions of walking, sitting, standing, eating, or breaking the curtains.