The Flag, 2024
Single-channel video and mixed-media installation

The work takes the form of a flag composed of multiple layers of semi-transparent fabric. Suspended in space, the fabric responds to air currents—overlapping, shifting, and misaligning—appearing as a flickering afterimage. What was once a familiar and stable symbol is transformed, through motion, into a drifting and indeterminate figure: a ghost that hovers between presence and absence.
 

The work is inspired by Taiwan’s ambiguous position within international reality. Often categorized as a “partially recognized state,” its flag is frequently constrained from being freely displayed in many global contexts. By rendering it in soft, translucent material, the work transforms a once distinct and assertive emblem into something blurred, unstable, and unresolved.
 

Within this barely discernible image, viewers may find themselves recalling fragments of memory, traces of history, or the outline of a yet-to-be-formed collective identity—perhaps even encountering questions of their own sense of belonging. Rather than making a declaration, the work remains suspended as an open-ended inquiry.