Life Tells Lies
July, 2017, China
Duration: 11 mins
Director: Yafei Qi
Music: Sylvian Wang
Brief Synopsis:
Performance & video, featuring an interaction between the artist and her mother over the course of several hours.
The work focuses on the social status of women and the wave of feminism surfacing in contemporary china in recent years. it discusses the conflict between traditional ideas of femininity and woman-hood, carried on from generation to generation in China, and contemporary feminism amongst young women.