Material: Paper, Acrylic Ink, Masking Tape
Size: 3 x 1,5 m
Location: Foundation B.A.D.
Year: 2026
The word Gwei (鬼) means ghost. In Hong Kong the word is also used to describe Western white foreigners. On one of their visits to their family in Hong Kong, the artist too was described using this word. In ‘White Cuts’ Hooi-Ying researches the grief that is present in three generations of Chinese immigrants and how internalised white supremacy influences their experience of the Chinese diasporic identity. Through speculative fiction they poetically link this to the cultural and historical implications of ghosts, subverting the word from a source of unbelonging to that of new possibilities of being.
Part of the work is a handout in which the front is the wall on which the piece has been created. On the back of the handout is a text that gives a glimpse of the background research.