INSTALLATION

Working with Autex and aluminium wire, this project explores how materials can act as active collaborators rather than passive finishes.
Beginning with small-scale experiments, the team developed a series of joints through stitching, twisting, and crocheting: testing how friction, tension, and softness could hold structure without adhesives. The process revealed how materials respond through pressure, gesture, and resistance.
The final 1:1 intervention is installed along the staircase handrails of the Stevens Building. By weaving and binding onto the existing balustrade, the work highlights the meeting point between contrasting materials. Soft and rigid, light and heavy, temporary and permanent.

Developed as part of superPRIMER: superMATTER, Led by Tania Lopez Wrinkler, Royal College of Art, 2025.
With Damin Choi, Qianwen Li, Yiran Chen.

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SUPERMATTER: A MATTER OF PLACE, 2025

Autex sheet, aluminum wire
110 cm x 300 cm

Looking At The Altar is an ancestor altar-like installation assembled from found materials and family archives with different cultural symbols. The project is rooted in exploring identity rights through family memory, naming, and cultural inheritance, using name cards as the main media object. The vision comes from revisiting my family’s migration history and understanding how rights, especially the right to one’s name, heritage, and cultural continuity, shape identity across generations.

 

Looking at the Altar, 2025

Paper, found objects

150 x 50 cm

“WEAR: Buildings as/is Archive” reimagines the Darwin Building as a living document — an architectural archive that tells its story through material wear. Rather than a conventional exhibition, it served as a physical narrative of the building’s evolution, revealing how decades of use have left behind subtle yet powerful traces: abrasions, scuffs, rubs, and marks of human interaction.

 

WEAR: Buildings as/is Archive, 2025

Expanding foam, balsa wood, acrylic paint, metal, found objects

100 x 50 x40 cm