Yingqi Guan

This work is an extension of the project [ I ] series based on my work [ eye / ài / I ];  'I' is an individual, a physical body, a self and an id. I create through my own perspective and combine my own stories as my inspiration source. The viewers perceive those works from their own standpoint. It is fascinating that viewers gain different senses of substitution for the stories behind the works due to their different backgrounds.I have always given some care to objects that have a relationship with the body, especially "jewellery". This emotion of concern does not always depend on their strong symbolism and token sense, but rather my subconscious belief that during this time spent together in "jewellery", there is a bond, a relationship as if While I protect it from the outside world, it also empowers me.

I created a fictional world in the form of a film. The protagonist of this world is Marcya, which is Maria in a parallel time and space. Here, she splits and produces different consciousnesses due to external evaluations and voices. Only she can see and interact with these consciousnesses, she helplessly reached out to the people around her for help, but people ignored her. I express a miniature universe in the way of the subway. There are all kinds of people in it, and it is also the epitome of the patriarchal society in this miniature universe. They ignore the pain, cry for help from the women around them, and play with their mobile phones independently. They want to understand and try to understand by looking it up on their phone; however, they ignore real women around them.

She is Maria in another parallel universe, where she is an ordinary woman. 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 "SHE" 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 HER.

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 personally, 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.