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...
Documentation of border: The Borderman 口岸計劃—岸邊人 2017 Single-channel digital video, Sound, Color 12’02″
When it comes to the third work of Documentation on the boundary, I began to ponder that boundary and space are not merely geographical concepts, but more about people. I often walk across the border between two places, and I found that there are classmates living such a life. I started to record them. They have come to Hong Kong from mainland China or come to Hong Kong following their parents. Although they have different backgrounds, they are similar.
For months I have traveled with them the places where they grew up, listened to their views on the region and the boundary, or stayed with them when they are doing artwork. Finally, I wrote down my memory of them and invited them to read it to me. I think the so-called identity is what others perceive them.