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Rice (produce from Guangdong China) bonding with homemade rice paste, sand, video, five documents of the relics
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2021

The outbreak of the epidemic has brought me back to the place where my life began -- my family. At the same time, in the process of studying feminism, I have the opportunity to re-examine the "women in the family".

In the eyes of most people, mothers and women are two different species. After a woman becomes a mother, the way she is perceived fundamentally changes. From the male perspective, she changes from otherness to his nurturer. Since the beginning of the women's movement, women have tried to find their own female identity from the male vicious circle but have found no root for women to follow. We have no past, we can only find women who are engaged in a lot of minor life activities, cooking, cleaning and tidying up. Indeed, as Julia Kristeva said, "Strictly speaking, women do not exist." Perhaps, many people will uniformly criticize this as the result of male centralization. As a new generation of women, we should abandon and give up this kind of cowardice and forbearance. I have always maintained a skeptical attitude toward this division, which I cannot ignore the existence of women in the past. Therefore, I tried to understand and explore the connection between mother and daughter/woman (two women) from a female perspective.

The well-known Greek mythology is in fact a version handed down by men through their writings, but at the time Greek women used to "oral" their own myths, which were eventually thrown behind the head of the history along with the life their living. The transmission of women to women becomes a special proof of existence. They serve as a bridge to nurture humanity, but at the same time, they are isolated from the discourse. I don't think there was nothing left of the women of the past, but something special made us "women" today. In contrast, men exist by proof, and women's existence does not need to be proven -- just as we don't need scientific examination -- we need food in the basic fact.

This work borrows the existing archeological site methods to fabricate and reconstruct a proof of "female existence", so as to solemnly commemorate "our" past.

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