INSTALLATION

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