China 

The work collects individual fingerprints that expand, penetrate and permeate the blended fabric. The individual identity that each fingerprint represents may change its form and role in a strange and unordered way after being “interwoven” and “overlapped” with others’. Just like the question that I have been pursuing: What is the real meaning of the identity of “I”? What is the construction of existence? Is the existence the marks we left in the world after touching and feeling or the illusory reflections of one’s relationship with others? Or all these things are meaningless and will finally become nothingness? Maybe the recognition of self-identity will gradually be established and clear in the intricate and complex relationship. I manage to answer these questions by combining my fingerprints with strangers’, constructing them on the imaginary stage of light and shadow. I open a new exploration for these fingerprints. Encounter, attraction, ties, intimacy, distance, confrontation, influence, strangeness, game, meet, alienation, acquaintance, farewell, attachment, revulsion, aversion, friendship, quarrel, in separation …All these form a circle that goes round and round. The circle can be regarded as the samsara of destiny as well as the intertwined phantom.