CLOSET: Father & I

March 2022

Performance & Installation

The Closet: Father & I was inspired by my exploration of my relationship with my father. Via thinking about the bullying and discrimination of marginalized masculinity in patriarchal families in the contemporary Chinese context, mixed with the entanglement of the younger generation in Chinese families towards the patriarchal-submissive relationship, expressing my silent revolt against patriarchal bullying.

The footprints drifting away on the bandage is a signal of the estranged relationship between father and son, and the gradually surrounded cube is a metaphor for an invisible closet built by the family patriarchal bullying, which obstructs a lot of sexual minorities that are unable to come out to their families.

项目创作灵感来源于我对我与父亲关系的探索。通过思考当代中国语境下男权家庭边缘化男性气质的欺凌与歧视，夹杂着中国家庭年轻一代对父权顺从关系的纠缠，表达我对父权欺凌的无声反抗。
绷带上逐渐远去的脚印是父子关系疏远的象征，逐渐被包围起来的方形立架隐喻家庭父权霸凌搭建的无形壁橱，它阻碍了许多性少数群体选择向家人出柜。

Director & Creative: Jiqiang(Johnny) Wen

Performer: Jiqiang(Johnny) Wen

Cinematographer: Thomas James Gilbert

Shooting Assistant: Pietro Ansaldi