Me and My Ugliness
Metal Knit Series
2020 - 2022
"Beauty" is a prominent feature of modern popular culture, while it also has some drawbacks. Starting from the nature of the body, I try to expound on this paradox from the nature of body. This concept naturally generated by the human body runs through and dominates the growth experience of some people, and even leads the public's view of them. In the series "Me and My Ugliness", I reject people's stereotype of "beauty", and investigate it from an alternative perspective by changing roles.In this era, "appearance has become the most lucrative business in existence" and beauty is "the new commodity of today's hyper-consumption stage of capitalism". The increasing means of control and anxiety-provoking, as well as ways of suppressing dissent, show us the control and stereotypes of those in power, to obliterate and torment more possibilities for women whose worlds could have been fair play. Verbal violence and stereotypes have always been a way to build and consolidate power. However, under the onslaught of the new theocracy of power, the "we" who oppose murderous diversity and the politics of death must be very imaginative, knowing that the struggle will be long and hard, but that will not take away the fight in us.
Earrings
Material: 18k plated gold
Dimensions: 53 x 8 x 9 cm
Me and my ugliness - Marcya
Earrings
Material: 18K plated gold
Dimensions : 53 x 8 x9 cm
In this era, "appearance has become the most lucrative business in existence" and beauty is "the new commodity of today's hyper-consumption stage of capitalism". The increasing means of control and anxiety-provoking, as well as ways of suppressing dissent, show us the control and stereotypes of those in power, to obliterate and torment more possibilities for women whose worlds could have been fair play. Verbal violence and stereotypes have always been a way to build and consolidate power. However, under the onslaught of the new theocracy of power, the "we" who oppose murderous diversity and the politics of death must be very imaginative, knowing that the struggle will be long and hard, but that will not take away the fight in us.
Earrings
Material: 18k plated gold
Dimensions: 53 x 8 x 9 cm
Me and my ugliness - Necklace
The necklace
Material: Silver
Dimensions: 170 x 80 x 10 cm
This series of work is the story of 16 women I interviewed, their identities are my own projection, grandmothers, mothers, sisters and women of different occupations and identities around me . I draw strength from everyday examples of women's indomitable desire for equality and liberation. I try to use jewellery as a medium to battle against "ugliness" and Injuries and restraints from the outside world. It runs through, dominates, dictates the growth experience of some people, and even creates societal stereotypes. In this series of works, I altered what people have become accustomed to as the perception of "ugliness", and explored it from a new perspective by changing roles. This isn't just a big heavy piece of jewellery, it also represents a shackle on women to illustrate their position in the modern society. I draw strength from everyday examples of women's unbeatable desire for equality and liberation. Let it be a source of inspiration, to give people the courage to refuse to bow their heads, to give in, to break free, and pierce the veil of liberal ideology that hides hypocrisy, verbal violence, and destruction.
Me and my ugliness - A woman's life
Necklace
Material: Copper wire
Dimensions: 180 x 80 x 10 cm
In this way, I hope to express the difference of different individuals, ugliness and beauty for women are a modern standard of beauty framed by gender, race, culpable consumerism and neoliberal context. These stereotyped commodity words seem critical and cold. This also appears to have worn away how women feel and think, ignoring how women have dealt with life and destiny in order to have a diverse life answer sheet. In my work, I make different female body shapes in an abstract way, and behind each distinctive feature is a story. The annealed metal wire is full of toughness, and the twisted limbs are twisted and wired together by hand-knitting, showing a distinct visual tension, just like a woman's life and her strength are intertwined to narrate the fate story with women as the carrier. I translate this emotion into jewellery that resonates with the wearer.
