Whispering Memories

Abstract

Starting from inviting volunteers to tell a unique memory, I created to relive the past, to recover the future/ memory rubbing lab, a work that incorporates video, audio and interactive installations. In it, people can listen, watch, tell, and draw different memories. As experimenting with the ideas of telling personal stories through different means, I obtain most of my creative inspiration from daily life. I collect photos, audio recordings, films, text messages or letters to use as my materials, presenting discussions on topics such as daily conversations, memories, and family in different visual languages. In Everything is OK, don’t worry I painted portraits of people talking in video calls on phone-shaped sculptures. In Things I don’t usually think of when I think of my mother., I projected the video of my mother repeating the motion of pretending to brush someone’s hair on my own body, and created an illusion of her brushing my hair. In news, I incorporate the traveling trace in digital form with my mother’s reading of text messages she sent me over years. And finally, in the installation I and _ coexist, I utilized the room itself as the work and created an immersive experience with sculptures, photos, and videos.