What does a grandfather leave behind for his descendants? What kind of relationship is established between objects and the memory of those who are no longer? Cleaning out the family home, the artist finds a strange chest full of memories. Photos, letters, paintings, marriage certificates, books and notes date from decades or even a century earlier. In a changing world where rituals lose ground to the quest for profit and efficiency, the artist combines records of the Chinese New Year and Mid-Autumn Festival with his grandfather’s relics to create a memorial that serves as a site of rest, an intermission of belonging, a way home.
