Kite de Santiago (2025)
Material:
golden/silver plastic paper(sponsored by @49closvoltaire ),
wooden sticks unassembled from Japanese-style curtain (sponsored by @headspaceandcomm mess corner),
@aldi_suisse shopping bag,
Pencil, Yarn.
Me and my friend were hiking in the mountains.
When we saw the vultures, we thought about kites.
Then I decided to make one, and it would be with me along my Camino.
Every time I stopped walking, I would fly it to attract my potential THE ONE.
This mission partially failed,
but I attracted a nice French uncle, who was impatient about me keeping trying in front of his meal with sea view,
and then decided to teach me some childhood knowledge—putting sand in the Aldi shopping bag to make the tail heavier.
Yes, it’s really a Camino kite,
since it stayed in my backpack for the whole trail and successfully flew in front of the Santiago church.
<Out of sight, Out of mind> (2026)
is mixed-media installation
featuring a video essay, live performance,
a fake pet box shipped through the postal system in China,
and surveillance footage documenting its journey.
Under China’s hyper-B2C e-commerce landscape,
animal commodification reached another level:
live pets can be shoped online,
shipped and refunded as standard parcels,
even Under “7-day death compensation” policies.
A short presentation video is available here.
The Video Essay
<Out of sight, Out of mind | 眼不见心为净> 8’30’’
This project began as a personal research.
I wanted to understand something I couldn't let go of:
“If those who buy animals are supposed to love them, why do they allow them to suffer in transit alongside tons of parcels?”
I attempt to unpack what is hidden beneath this selective blindness,
to drag into view the disturbing parts -
the suffering of those pets during the transit process, where the system is built to hide.
The Fake Pet Parcel
To go further,
I built a fake pet-shipping package,
placed a surveillance camera inside, and mailed it for real.
(It may not have been entirely legal — but neither is shipping live animals as parcels.)
I wanted to see what the animals see: the darkness, the vibration,
the moment of being thrown onto a pile of boxes.
If the system is designed to keep me from looking,
then looking — deliberately, from the inside — becomes the work itself.
It went 1,373 kilometers.
Four days. Fifty hours of footage — projected on the crate, uncut
The Installation
This project looks, through video essay, at an extreme case of animal commodification.
But what I wanted to explore more was this:
how to make participants become the argument itself, without knowing it.
The entire installation runs under a fake logistics company
— HLYC. Here Lies Your Choice.
What you buy is a choice, sitting here is also a choice.
Visitors chose to sit on top while I am lying inside.
On the monitor next to the footage runs a live feed
— me, in real time, in the box beneath them, as the clue to find what is really inside the box.