Released

Built from over twenty layers of natural lacquer applied to fabric, this large-scale work records a process of resistance and accumulation. As lacquer penetrates the fabric, it hardens and solidifies it from within. Natural lacquer carries more than eight thousand years of history, a material traditionally associated with smoothness and refinement; here it reveals something entirely different: crumpled, compressed, and rough, the fabric has been transformed into something simultaneously fragile and impenetrable. What appears soft is hard. What appears chaotic holds its form completely.

For Me, this paradoxical coexistence carries a deeper resonance. The way bodies, gender, and identity are shaped and gradually solidified through social relations bears an inherent structural resemblance to what lacquer does to fabric: layer by layer, slowly, and irreversibly.