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Made in China,About HK

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started to make this work preparations in August 2019. At the beginning, I just had an idea about the Hong Kong repatriation incident that happened in June at that time. Events are brewing. On the Internet, major media platforms are constantly reporting related matters. And I follow some friends in Hong Kong and Taiwan, and they often discuss what is happening in Hong Kong, and share pictures and videos. So I began to make a plan in September 2019. After that, I contacted a 3D printing company in mainland China, and then agreed on the production price, the material and size of the work. With all of these yellow splashes, they lose and destroy the functionality of each object through 3D printing. It turns into a symbol. These symbols not only represent what is happening in Hong Kong, including guns, tear gas, handcuffs and gas masks, but also cover the issues of gun sensitivity, terrorism and human rights persecution that exist around the world today. And in China, many activists are arrested and imprisoned every year. I commissioned the 3D printing company in China to make it, and I also wanted to convey the dependence of commodity production worldwide on the Chinese market and Chinese manufacturing today. The irony, then, is that China's authoritarian society has also created a crisis of universal values around the world. Like the Hong Kong problem, it's made in China. I was born in China, and as a Chinese identity, I used a Chinese factory to make a theme about Hong Kong, which was presented in Tokyo, and what that means is today's complex relationship between identity, international and venue.

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