- The ancestor
- The ancestor is the third section of the Exploration of Immigrants which it seeks to examine and question the family context in eliciting hidden narratives of the diasporic displacement. In this section, Kian tries to find out the ancestral tombstone of his great grandfather, who is the first generation Chinse came from mainland China. He utilises the idea of touching as a commemorative method to do rubbing with the tombstone and transforming into the same size soft sculpture of the original. In the site-specific spatiality, through touching every detail of the tombstone structure – from main personal detail structure to both sides. A tombstone can interpret as an identity of an immigrant in the overseas which embraces a double exposure of individual/ family narrative, also as storage that bearing the deceased’s story. While doing the rubbing, Kian was very curious about in what circumstances his great grandfather decided to leave China and inspire him to dig out potential narratives about the considerable migration period.
- Installation, aluminium foil paper, 2019.
- The ancestor
- The ancestor is the third section of the Exploration of Immigrants which it seeks to examine and question the family context in eliciting hidden narratives of the diasporic displacement. In this section, Kian tries to find out the ancestral tombstone of his great grandfather, who is the first generation Chinse came from mainland China. He utilises the idea of touching as a commemorative method to do rubbing with the tombstone and transforming into the same size soft sculpture of the original. In the site-specific spatiality, through touching every detail of the tombstone structure – from main personal detail structure to both sides. A tombstone can interpret as an identity of an immigrant in the overseas which embraces a double exposure of individual/ family narrative, also as storage that bearing the deceased’s story. While doing the rubbing, Kian was very curious about in what circumstances his great grandfather decided to leave China and inspire him to dig out potential narratives about the considerable migration period.
- Installation, aluminium foil paper, 2019.