Yehui Zhao
Yehui Zhao (she, her, they) is a filmmaker and painter, whose work addresses diaspora and womanhood, invisibility and distance, memories and non-recorded history. Her work has been shown at the 43rd Asian American International Film Festival, The People’s Forum, Microscope Gallery, and is forthcoming in The Brooklyn Review.
I requested some old photographs from my parents and gazed at my mom in her late 20’s. It was before she met my father, when she visited a public park, where she was riding a horse. She was wearing a red velvet cape as if she was the daughter of 20th century British royalty. What an interesting trend in China during the 1980's! Her face felt both familiar and strange - as if someone took my body and was living another life. This feeling became a mirage, a real object that’s situated in a surreal setting. I painted and traced my mom's images from those old photographs and made collages with paintings of mine. Our bodies sketch an optical illusion. The light bends. Our memory collapses. The 28-year-old mom sees the 28-year-old me. The past and present meet through mirages.
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