A summer in Geneva, a wasp got trapped on my window screen.
I couldn't stop wondering what was going through its mind as it tried to find a way out.
it passed over the same lines again and again, precisely.
Before I finally released it from this small prison,
I traced the paths it took,then printed these traced paths onto household objects I made,
because insects are meant to be everywhere—including chez nous.
<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.
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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.
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.