Chinese Tattoo Project
It all started with the artist’s fascination with cringe-worthy Chinese tattoo images on the internet. The Chinese characters are mostly misspelled or mistranslated. This series of works highlights those failures in translation between languages and symbols. Using installation to consider translation as a central action that flirts, bonds, and reflects the relationship between cultures, Jiayun highlights the slippage that occurs and echoes the complex exchange between cultures.
The work considers paradoxical gestures while posing questions about cultural exchange/appropriation, through humor, wit and the poetic.
