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...
Sleepless Nights Wake Up the Plants
2023 Slide film projection, sound, video documentation. 12'23" Performed by Tianyi Zheng and Sojung Lee
Performance at ROZENSTRAAT – a rose is a rose is a rose, Amsterdam Part of The One Minutes screening "Untitled" curated by ikkibawikrrr Documented by Panida Petchara;
“Sleepless Nights Wake Up the Plants” showcases a selection of still-life slides of plants curated by Tianyi Zheng, accompanied by sound and vocal elements provided by Sojung Lee. The performance aims to re-examine the images of plants from a more-than-human perspective, inviting the audience to explore the beauty and eerie of botanical imagery.