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An exiled student finding my voice. Displaced but not silent. Resistance through expression.

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Confronting Gaze - 对视

Please keep attention on trafficked women in China.
请对中国被拐卖女性现状保持持续关注。

Original song "Confronting Gaze" by me, with Al support.
原创歌曲“对视”由我创作，Ai协助。

About the work:

I stood outside the Chinese Embassy, covered with the eyes of one hundred women who had been trafficked and sold into forced marriages in remote areas of China. They had been locked away, chained, raped, and forced to bear children throughout their lives.

Due to these unending incidents, today, I carried all their gaze on my body, and together with them, we completed a silent confrontation through our eyes with Chinese authorities.

We asked here:
Why are their cries ignored and their pain denied?
Why haven’t their most basic rights to survival been protected?
Why does this brutality continue?
Where are the disappeared victims now?

This work is dedicated to every woman who has suffered from trafficking. Also pay tribute to all those who continue to
speak out and take action.
May more people face this tragedy head-on, so that justice and hope are never ignored again.

我收集了一百位被拐卖的中国女性的眼睛，将它们贴满全身，站在了中国大使馆门前。这些眼睛的主人，她们被拐卖到山区，被终生囚禁、被铁链拴住脖子、被强奸、被强迫生育。

由于这样的事件层出不穷，今天，我背负着所有来自她们的目光，与她们共同完成了一场和中国当局的对视和无声质问。

我们在此质问：
她们的呼喊为何被漠视、她们的痛苦为何被否认？
为什么她们连最基本的生存权都得不到保障？
为何这样的暴行层出不穷？
那些消失的受害者现在在哪？

这件作品献给所有因被拐卖而受难的女性，并同时致敬所有坚持为她们发声与行动的人。
愿更多人直面这场悲剧，让正义与希望不再被忽视。

#chainedwoman
#traffickedwomeninChina
#丰县铁链女
#和顺女硕士

[李老师不是你老师 @whyyoutouzhele]

《乌鲁木齐中路在哪里》
白纸运动两周年之际，欧洲的白纸青年们带着一块乌鲁木齐中路的路牌穿越整个欧洲。
“一塊烏魯木齊中路的路牌穿過歐洲，帶著兩年前的記憶碎片：有的人已經忘記，但有的人還記得。”

英国 China Deviants @China_Deviants
荷兰 Censored Face(s) | 人(们) @censored_face_s
法国 自由广场 Le Front de la Liberté
德国 德国民主墙 My Duty in Deutschland
中国人权 @hrichina 人道中国 @HChina89

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THE BLOOD RED CHRONICLE
血红编年史
150 * 90 cm

I have sewn together 200 face masks to create a Chinese national flag. Each mask represents a day and night of the three-year pandemic. The crimson handprints and bloodstains symbolize the blood, tears, and suffering of those who lived, died, or lingered between life and death during this time.

It is the blood and tears of a 16-year-old boy with cerebral palsy who, after his father was forcibly taken into quarantine, was left unattended, ignored by the government, and starved to death at home.

It is the blood and tears of countless puppies and kittens, brutally beaten to death by workers who broke into their owners’ homes under the pretext that “companion animals can also spread the virus.”

It is the blood and tears of patients who needed dialysis during lockdowns but couldn’t leave their homes due to strict policies. Denied admission by hospitals and ignored by authorities, they died alone, uncared for.

It is the blood and tears of those on the Guizhou bus who, due to the zero-COVID policy, were taken to quarantine in the middle of the night, only to die in a tragic accident.

It is the blood and tears of dozens of Uyghurs locked inside their building because of lockdown policies, unable to escape or be rescued, burned alive in the Urumqi Fire.

They cared only about zero-COVID; they did not care about human lives.

I have stitched together all this pain, blood, and tears to create China’s unique Blood-Red Chronicle. This is the true color of this country.

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THE BLOOD RED CHRONICLE
血红编年史

150 * 90 cm

我用两百个口罩缝制成了一面中国国旗。这些口罩代表着疫情间每一个日夜，口罩上的血色手印和血迹代表这些年里活着的、死去的、不死不活的人的血和泪。

我把痛苦人们的所有血泪缝在一起，这些血泪染就了中国的底色，也锻铸了中国独有的血红编年史。

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Paper Hands / 紙手

On 26th November, 2024, at two-year anniversary of China’s #WhitePaperProtest, we gradually covered both ourselves and the monument ‘Tegen alle stromen in’ with layers of blank sheets of paper.

Tegen alle stromen in (Counter all currents) is a monument on Leidseplein, Amsterdam, created by artist Rini Hurkmans, in memory of Peter R. De Vries, a dutch crime journalist murdered by gunshot in July 2021. The monument depicts two hands in touch, supporting for each other, carrying Peter R. De Vries’ struggle for people who needed help against injustice.

On the arms of two hands is written in 41 languages, de Vries’ farewell letter to his children: ‘Stay true to yourself... When necessary, stand up for the weak and minorities, speak your mind honestly and listen to your sense of justice. And pass that on to your children. Then all will be well’.

Two years ago on this date, a nation-wide protest broke out in China against the backdrop of 3-year strict zero-COVID policy, marking China’s largest protest since 1989 Tiananmen Massacre. Those blank sheets of paper held by protesters symbolizes not only for Chinese people’s anger towards censorship, but also their solidarity for the suffering of another group of people under the rule of the same regime, the Uyghurs - Two days before the outbreak of the protest, the zero-COVID policy took the lives of 44 Uyghurs during the #ÜrümqiFire. As a consequence, at least hundreds of protesters experienced imprisonment, and some of them still remain unreleased today.

The action of speaking up, seeking justice for those voiceless may bring severe consequences, or even cost the life of the brave ones, no matter the time or place. But why are there always people willing to risk themselves to stand up against injustice for others? Perhaps this is a question that cannot be answered easily by the monument or the blank papers.

Collaborated by @censored_face_s
BGM: Ryuichi Sakamoto, Bibo No Aozora

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THE BLOOD RED CHRONICLE
血红编年史

150 * 90 cm

我用两百个口罩缝制成了一面中国国旗。这些口罩代表着疫情间每一个日夜，口罩上的血色手印和血迹代表这些年里活着的、死去的、不死不活的人的血和泪。

我把痛苦人们的所有血泪缝在一起，这些血泪染就了中国的底色，也锻铸了中国独有的血红编年史。

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2024.11.24 乌鲁木齐大火两周年守夜集会。

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THE BLOOD RED CHRONICLE
血红编年史

150 * 90 cm

我用两百个口罩缝制成了一面中国国旗。这些口罩代表着疫情间每一个日夜，口罩上的血色手印和血迹代表这些年里活着的、死去的、不死不活的人的血和泪。

我把痛苦人们的所有血泪缝在一起，这些血泪染就了中国的底色，也锻铸了中国独有的血红编年史。