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 Conversation (somewhere between no longer and not yet)
A Conversation (somewhere between no longer and not yet) 2022-23 Mixed media installation Video, sounds, found objects, found images, digital prints on paper, digital prints on metal and film, risograph prints on paper, LED lights, Arduino.
~0. Fragments (moments) Digital drawing on found slide film images, photos on paper A set of 9
~ 1. (/) Curtain, magnet, surgery needle holder Size variable
~2. Here risograph on paper, second-hand photo frames, engraved text on glass, LED light A set of 8 10x15cm
~ 3. Was Image printed on canvas, acrylic on canvas, LED, relay control with Arduino A set of 2 50X70cm
~ 4 .Once Lightbox in a suitcase, photo on film, photo on metal, gloves, metal, stone, vintage trolley 40 x 50 x 130cm
~ 5. A Conversation Single-channel video, sound, color 8'21"