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...
You with me 2020 Single-channel digital video, Sound, Color 5'20" Music by Alan Ahued Naime, Text and voice by Cheuk Lam Tam
"You With Me" is a single-channel digital video, which examines the poetic fragments in daily conversation from the perspective of linguistics through reorganization and reproduction. I accidentally took footage of nonsensical conversation, which happened when some friends talking before went to the supermarket. Under the context of coronavirus lockdown, I rethink the boredness and emptiness of everyday talk, question how human conditions are reflected through the perception of time in relation to language.