The Solitude of Jing Hua
Co-Artist: Enrica Ho
Cinematographer: Rick Lau
The Solitude of Jing Hua is a performance-based installation conceived as a reaction to the complexities of consumerism and societal pressures on women in Asia.
The artists perceive that this pressure, applied by industrial interests and cultural expectations, develops into a burden of dissatisfaction and self-consciousness for these women. An ingrained vanity occurs, propelled by the imposed need to compete.
Stemming from prior explorations into issues related to status anxiety and self-doubt, The Solitude of Jing Hua moves these personal traumas into a wider realm and places them within the economy at large. From the perspective of two artists living in Hong Kong, the question of where clothes actually come from and the gulf between middle class consumers and factory workers is sorely felt.
The artists believe that the 'privileged' consumers are not actually lucky; they are just a part of the same system as the factory workers and fulfilling their expected role. The audience is invited to rethink the system, as to whether the system is serving the customers or vice versa.
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Anamorphic HD video, 10 min
Steel Sculpture with clothing artifacts, 5 m diameter
5 C-print photos, sizes variable
Factory soundscape
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