sinethetamagazine: When I Look at the Unfulfilled Desires of a Mother I Am Looking at Decay Itself b
sinethetamagazine:When I Look at the Unfulfilled Desires of a Mother I Am Looking at Decay Itself by Wang Menmen. Installation/ performance. 2019.Born and raised in Inner Mongolia of China, Wang Menmen received her MFA in Studio Art from San Francisco Art Institute. In When I Look at the Unfulfilled Desires of a Mother I Am Looking at Decay Itself, Wang sat in a bathtub filled with soil and roses. Through makeup, she appeared to be in her 60s - just around her mother’s age. Wang’s mother, sitting at home in China, Throughout the performance which took place in San Francisco, was virtually present on an iPhone screen via Wechat video call. The mother answered questions from the audience. She did so at a sedate pace, with some selected quotes from Youth (2002), a semi-fictional autobiographical novel by J.M. Coetzee:“How can he make her (his mother) accept that the process of turning himself into a different person that began when he was fifteen will be carried through remorselessly until all memory of the family and the country he left behind is extinguished?”When I Look at the Unfulfilled Desires of a Mother I Am Looking at Decay Itself is a reflection on the many roles a woman plays and the perils she faces: as a mother, a daughter, a nurturer, a muse, an artist, an immigrant, an object of desires, and an objective of consumables.Follow sinθ magazine for more daily posts about Sino arts and culture. -- source link