2025, Video performance, duration 29:32
A video performance where the characters 我不会说中文 (wǒ bú huì shuō zhōng wén) are written repeatedly on practice calligraphy paper. The characters are written with water and disappear over time. The sentence means "I cannot speak Chinese”.
The repetition in this work mirrors the quantity of times I need to explain myself when I am back in my birth country. Whilst looking for connection, this sentence starts to feel like a kind of punishment, being the thing that constantly exposes my lack and unbelonging.