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 contemporary days as the past has not been shed away while our world keeps moving, or in fact it can never be...
Where Comes Mulan is a research-based moving-image installation that weaves video, photo, sound, and space to explore “Mulan” as a complex symbol across history, myth, and nationhood. Since the 1990s, the artist’s hometown has been reshaped into “Mulan Township,” where she is staged as a brand and spectacle. Yet in memories, she appears as a commodity, martyr, goddess, and ghost. This work searches between grand official narratives and everyday memory, asking: Where is Mulan, and how does she echo in the present?
Supported by Creative Industries Fund NL & Hong Kong Arts Development Council.
The Hong Kong Arts Development Council supports freedom of artistic expression. The views and opinions expressed in this project do not represent the stand of the Council.
