‘Rabbit God’
Mixed-media installation
The installation consists of serval media, dimension variable
Exhibited in DOOR, Dordrecht, 2021
Kunstpodium T, Tilburg, 2022
Tu’er Shen is a Chinese folk deity associated with love and sexual relationships between men, literally translated as the “Rabbit Deity.” Unlike widely worshipped figures such as the God of Wealth, he remains marginal within mainstream culture, with limited visual representations—reflecting how homosexuality has often been kept implicit or “off the table” in many social contexts in China. I created a Rabbit God figure before I knew this background, and later translated it into forms resembling objects used in the worship of deities and ancestors.
Exhibition view at DOOR, Dordrecht, 2021
Exhibition view at Kunstpodium-T, Tilburg, 2022
300X200X200cm, video duration 00:02:23
From L to R: silk paper, clay, PVC string, canvas, crayon, acrylic, wooden stick, TV, blue hyacinth, porcelain spoon, chopsticks, rotten fruit, candles, tinfoil, alcohol, sand, match, incense, rice cover, wool needle, plaster, newspaper, acrylic, iron wire
There is a painting in my memory about Yue Lao riding a crane under the moon, and I replace him with the rabbit god.
Rabbit god, duration 00:02:23
Video in the TV set