Half the Sky
Cyanotype on Fabics
60*90 cm
2024
Nüshu (simplified Chinese: 女书), the women's script is a syllabic script derived from Chinese characters that was invented and used exclusively among ethnic Yao women in Jiangyong County in Hunan province of southern China before going extinct in the early 21st century. Through the Women's Script, one can see the vivid figures of women who once lived on Chinese soil and their calm yet powerful resistance to the feudal sense of male power. The artist converted Nüshu scripts on sewed cyanotype fabrics to express her femininity, seeking a connection with the woman precursor and a state that is free from external power suppression and conceptual constraints.
