Photographed by Augustine Paredes
The Narrative of Becoming
Site-specific installation
Bamboo clothes hangers, motor, thread
Approx. 100 × 200 × 400 cm (variable dimensions)
2026
This kinetic sculpture unfolds from an extremely ordinary object: the bamboo clothes hanger, a common household tool widely used in China. Lightweight, resilient, and foldable, the hanger carries a shared everyday memory.
For the artist, the hanger is closely connected to repeated experiences of moving, folding, packing, and unpacking while living in Europe — a temporary state of life between different places. The work begins from a compressed form, stored inside a box, and becomes fully expanded in the exhibition space. Through repetition, stacking, and displacement, a small domestic unit grows into an imagined structure, almost like a temporary architecture.
The sculpture draws inspiration from scenes of drying laundry in alleyways, where hangers are often used in groups and suspended high on wires above the street. Seen from below, they form dense and improvised networks. Here, the hanger is no longer an isolated object but part of an extendable system shaped by gravity and balance. In the sense of Deleuze’s “becoming,” the individual is never fixed, but continuously formed through contact with environments, systems and others.
The motor sets the work into a slow rotation and slight sway, inviting viewers to experience the structure from multiple angles.
Exhibition: Städelschule Rundgang, Frankfurt, Germany
Bamboo clothes hangers, motor, thread
Approx. 100 × 200 × 400 cm (variable dimensions)
2026
This kinetic sculpture unfolds from an extremely ordinary object: the bamboo clothes hanger, a common household tool widely used in China. Lightweight, resilient, and foldable, the hanger carries a shared everyday memory.
For the artist, the hanger is closely connected to repeated experiences of moving, folding, packing, and unpacking while living in Europe — a temporary state of life between different places. The work begins from a compressed form, stored inside a box, and becomes fully expanded in the exhibition space. Through repetition, stacking, and displacement, a small domestic unit grows into an imagined structure, almost like a temporary architecture.
The sculpture draws inspiration from scenes of drying laundry in alleyways, where hangers are often used in groups and suspended high on wires above the street. Seen from below, they form dense and improvised networks. Here, the hanger is no longer an isolated object but part of an extendable system shaped by gravity and balance. In the sense of Deleuze’s “becoming,” the individual is never fixed, but continuously formed through contact with environments, systems and others.
The motor sets the work into a slow rotation and slight sway, inviting viewers to experience the structure from multiple angles.
Exhibition: Städelschule Rundgang, Frankfurt, Germany
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