De-stitching is part of the “Laborland” series. The artist took a shirt that was sewn together by a sweatshop worker in Bangladesh in less than 15 minutes. She deconstructed it by removing 3745 stitches carefully and counting every stitch in Cantonese for 4.5 hours. She did this to experience and pay tribute to the labour of this anonymous sweatshop worker. De-stitching questions the value of labour in the world of capitalism, and asks if the value of labour can only be measured monetarily.

“Hong Kong residents shall have freedom of speech, of the press and of publication…” as stated in the Article 27 of the Basic Law of the HKSAR. This protects the right of freedom of expression, however, the press seems not to be safeguarded under such ordinance. To avoid overstepping the prescribed limits, rigid reporting is common to fit in the “norm”. The idea of questionable objectivity of the press is thus presented in the form of a plain white paper with scattered “0”s that originated from the newspaper by leaving the circular parts of the letters “0/o/p/d/b/q” and having the rest hidden with correction fluid.

This is a continuous research project on the sex industry in Hong Kong. My initiative is based on the lack of awareness and recognition of the sex workers. They are living an underprivileged life. By adopting part of the protesting slogan from the recent Umbrella Movement, the two Chinese characters explicitly show what “I desire”. The light installation uses pink neon tubes which symbolise the present brothels of the city, through which I am trying to find angle to investigate where the workers can be represented.

The children in the photo series have no real identities. Some of them were born in Hong Kong and they are taught to speak Cantonese, but their faces and skin colour tell you that they are not Chinese. But they do not belong to their mother countries. Their parents left their home country because of suffering and persecution on account of race, religion, nationality or political opinion. The parents made the choice to become refugees but their children do not have a choice. They are living in the shadows of fear and helplessness.