This exhibition explores diasporic identity, belonging, and representation through an autobiographical lens. Centring on the lived experiences of a Chinese woman navigating life in the UK, my artworks critically reflect on displacement, visibility, and vulnerability. The exhibition features a series of five self-portrait paintings as visual autobiographies, accompanied by a collection of fortune cookie paintings on wooden panels and ceramic sculptures. These fortune cookies serve as symbolic vessels to question cultural assumptions and the fluidity of diasporic identity.

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The exhibition will take the form of mixed-media installation, combining mid-scale paintings with a series of small-to-medium wooden panel works and a sculptural display. The layout will allow viewers to move between painted portraits and sculptural works.

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Part A: Group of 5 paintings each measures 100 x 120 cm 
Part B: Group of approximately 30 pieces of smaller scale still life paintings (10x10cm, 15x15 cm, 15x21cm, 30x21cm, 30x30, 42x60cm) of fortune cookies and someceramic fortune cookie sculptures

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The paintings will be hung on the wall in the same room that allows for close viewing. The ceramic works will be displayed on low platforms, encouraging a more intimate engagement. The layout will highlight contrasts between surface, materiality, and meaning.

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There will be no video or audio in my exhibition.

Please refer to the following photographs for references: