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this is the actors version
I have been brought to various business dinners by my dad since I was a child. I didn't understand why they use drinking alcohol as a tool to achieve their goal. During dinner, the powerful people have priority to sit first and drink less. On the contrary, people on the bottom hierarchy have to talk and drink more to get benefit from those powerful people. However, this social status varied in different dinner scenarios while my dad attended different business banquets. They have a lot of questionable and uncomfortable drinking customs in order to get the other party drunk. Women and children are part of the representation of wealth and happiness of patriarchy since I have to behave “right” on the table to the guests otherwise I will get a pinch as a hint from my parents.
The work “untitled”, showed my examination of my childhood business dinner. I extracted the feeling and confusion I had in those dinners and put them into more exaggerated stage photos by casting actors and making them into different roles. Dinner table for them is a medium to facilitate their desires. They use alcohol to dissolve the seriousness of complex relationships. By doing this, they dare to say what they dare not in daily life and they are more bold to achieve their greed. The photo reflects the absurdity and facade of those situations while the exaggeration deconstructs the absurdity within it. By putting myself in the frame adds a layer of confusion for this situation throughout my life.