The Deviation of Desire: Fire, video 2021 Film
A young woman quarantining at home lights a candle on her palm in order to fight against the numbness caused by virtual online interactions. After this intimate contact with the flames, she thinks she has fallen in love with fire. And then, she started a + Enlarge
The Deviation of Desire: Fire, 01 2021 Film still
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The Deviation of Desire: Fire, 02 2021 Film still
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People lit candle emojis, for those who passed away. When everything has become a flat pixel, When we are unable to be close enough to hear each other breathing, I wanted a real candle, a real flame, that has temperature and radiates heat.? + Enlarge
I Don't Want to Post Another "Candle Emoji" 2020 Human Body, Flame, Candle
There is a circular tan mark on my back. + Enlarge
Please leave a mark on my back. Now I have a sun on my back. 01 2020 Human Body, Tape, Fabric, Sun Light
There is a circular tan mark on my back. + Enlarge
Please leave a mark on my back. Now I have a sun on my back. 02 2020 Human Body, Tape, Fabric, Sun Light
Statement

Through The Deviation of Desire: Fire, I create a space for revealing desires. The film’s character talks to herself about her fear and selfishness, making a confession. Giving up on maintaining a good image, instead, she exposes her disgraceful thoughts, dissecting a kind of false lip servicing love. Because, as you know, if you want to hear others’ secrets, you have to share your own first. I want to create films like creating dreams because, in dreams, we discover our deep and even narcissistic feelings. And I also invite the audience to join the dream, but I’ll join first, and the rest is up to you.

 

Besides, as an interdisciplinary artist instead of only a filmmaker, performance art is a big part of my art practice. By making this film, I explored a new collaboration process to connect performance art and film making. I made the film with the thinking and working methods of a performance artist: using one story line to connect a series of fire-related performance pieces. This film is standing on the ambiguous space between fictional and non-fictional. It is even hard for me to tell whether The Deviation of Desire: Fire is a self-made documentary or a fictional piece based on refined self-experiences. Either way, the uncertainty creates a dream-like atmosphere and texture.