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...
An Invisible Thread for Those Who Walk Along
2024
Tianyi Zheng, Hussel Zhu and Panida Te Petchara
Single-channel video, colour, sound
3’12”
In ”An Invisible Thread for Those Who Walk Along,“ we reimagine the game of ”Cat‘s Cradle“ without the tangible string. This work transforms a familiar childhood game into a poetic and abstract exploration of non-verbal communication. By performing the intricate gestures of the game in the absence of the string, we try to create an evocative dialogue that oscillates between connection and misunderstanding.