Single channel video, things left from the artist's ancestors and Grandpa from 1800s to 2000s, boxes made by common materials from Hong Kong walled villages, previous works selected from the artist from 2005 to 2015, aluminum cabinets, cabinets, glass, mixed media
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video: http://vimeo.com/240440282, 13min36s
Grandpa has been gone for over ten years. Many of the rituals he insisted on have not been passed down. Festivals have gradually been reduced to communal meals and offerings to deities—everything quietly succumbing to the atmosphere of capitalism and efficiency.
What does each grandfather, whether intentionally or unintentionally, leave behind for those who come after? One day, while tidying the dark room beneath the staircase at home, I retrieved a tin box buried under piles of miscellaneous items. Inside were relics from our ancestors and grandfather: great-grandfather’s photographs, letters, and paintings; grandfather’s marriage certificate, books, notes, and leather suitcase; a stack of passport photos; red fabric inscribed with the names of banquet guests—objects spanning decades, even centuries.
I grew up in a walled village. One year, I documented its spring and autumn ancestral rites, and at the same time, created a unique box using modern household items to represent the relics of my ancestors and grandfather. I placed within it fragments of my own creative work from the past ten-plus years, forming a kind of visual map of inherited fragments. How do objects evoke generations and human affairs? In this fleeting world, they flash by as resting places—temporary sanctuaries—while a sense of belonging, shaped over years, quietly lays the path home.
爺爺離開十年多，好些他堅持執行的儀式沒繼承多少，節慶逐漸簡化作聚餐及酬神，一切無法抵抗講 求資本及效率的氛圍。
每一位爺爺，不經意的、或特意的，為後來者留下什麼？一天，執拾家中梯級底下暗室，取出被雜物 堆疊的鐵皮箱，箱內是祖先及爺爺的遺物。曾爺爺的照片、書信、畫作；爺爺的結婚證書、藏書、札記、 手提皮箱；一堆護照照片；晚宴嘉賓題名的紅布匹，等等來自數十或過百年前的物件。
我在圍村長大，某年記錄它的春秋二祭，同時以家中現代的物件為祖先及爺爺的不同遺物製作獨一的 盒子，並置自身過去十多年創作的某些部分，如同延續碎片般遺物的圖譜。物件如何勾起世代和人事？浮光掠影的現世中閃過可暫且歇息的歸處，經年而成的歸屬感在鋪陳回家的路途。
