A series reflecting on heteronormative marriages in Western and Asian cultural context in paradox with same-sex marriage in non-Western Asian culture through traditional artifacts, followed by a self-portrait.
Here I play with a multitude of cultural artifacts by displaying outfits and accessories together based on gender, culture and sexuality. In contrast with heteronormative Western marriage follows same-sex marriage for both men and women. Evidently, same-sex marriage is more common in Western context than non-Western context. The series deconstructs the traditional ideas of marriage through Cambodian and Chinese artifacts. To further explore this process, my own body became the artifact. While I represent a Cambodian woman through blood, I also represent the history of genocide, colonialism, westernization, immigration, sexuality and queerness.
In collaboration with Marie-Laure Buisson.
Too sexual, too naked,
too thick, too fat,
too rebellious, too many tattoos,
too many piercings, too unnatural,
they are nothing in the representation of
who I was born to perform.
Yet, my blood, my heritage, my culture
surrounds all of it all too much.
Yet, not enough.
Not Asian enough
for the ancestors.
Not White enough
for the colonizers.