Tianyi is always in either a second-hand shop or on second-hand sale apps where she encounters found objects, images and footage (and she never feels bored). Her love for used/ collected/ found objects originates from, instead of nostalgia, a haunted feeling experienced in the contemporary days as the past has not been shed away while our world keeps moving, or in fact it can never be...
A Collection of Urban Nothingness 2023
Audio-visual Installation, live performance, found objects, oil on canvas, video, sound.
Site-specific at Het Wilde Weten Project Space Residency Collaborated with Beth Wong, Sojung Lee, Te Petchara
A Collection of Urban Nothingness is an ongoing project, focused on collecting urban domestic waste and investigating people's travels and displacements. Through a process of collecting, wandering, and constructing, this project seeks to examine the often-overlooked ways in which waste is caused by mobility and to highlight the hidden stories and histories embedded in discarded objects, especially discarded furniture and household items.