HO Hsin-Yi's creation is a perceptual autobiography. The artworks
feature multiple screens synchronized with film projections. The
films can be seen as "personal documentaries": a collection of
moments, memories, and emotions through the artist's lens, shaped
by her multicultural background and education. She takes her unique
perspective, cultivated by time spent growing up in Taiwan and
her education in Paris, and expresses the intimate relationship
with her family members.
Nevertheless, her works are not supposed to be deemed merely
her personal documentation. Each narrative possesses its more
complicated implication. For example, her previous work "Daddy-
More than 14,000 Freedom Days" is the portrait of her father-in-law
who once fought in the Korean War. She points out the sarcastic
fact that the 14,000 soldiers like him who were set free to Taiwan
after the war were not "free" at all after their long journey.
In creating "The Resonance from My Heart", she sounds and prays
for Africans, plants one seed of hope for the future of the world,
and personally documents her romance. The man who took the first-hand
documentary videos from Sierra Leone and told her the stories
became her husband afterwards. "Marching Troops" documents her
younger brother's life during the military service. Meanwhile,
she juxtaposes two different kinds of soldier's images from France
and Taiwan and deconstructs the implied meaning of the physical
training.
Apart from her video presentation, creative self-description
and photographs are also significant parts of her work. She loves
sharing her experiences with people and always feels happy when
the audience feels engaged at her intertextual works. Through
the interactions that people have with her work, life becomes
a kind of creation as well as creation endowing the meaning of
life. Creation, for her, is not only art, but a ritual of voicing
love.
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