double or nothing
2025
These video works are a series made in collaboration with my mother, Claire, in the aftermath of a debilitating car crash when she came to care for me.
receiver
2025
works including installation, performance, video, text
photo by Siqi Fan
photo by Claudia Thyrone
This was my thesis exhibition at CalArts, which featured two video works made in collaboration with my mother and an installation where I used chalk to mark the floors and walls of the space. These markings were diagrams where I attempted to make sense of my relationship with her through psychoanalytic theory. Texts that informed this research are scattered around the room.
The show closed with a 7-hour durational performance. For this length of time, I attached a rice paper screen to my temples. The screen hangs from lines that anchor in my skin. My gaze is bound to this projection of an image of my mother, my double. Here, I became the receiver for care that was “missed.” Returning to some unknown need or wish that was not met in childhood (mine or hers).