Si-Qi Peng

Sometimes, residents execute only part of a work in ceramics, making it hard to appreciate the results of their residency. Si-Qi Peng created long ceramic handles that look like crutches. They only make sense when you see them attached to the cassette player on wheels she developed with her boyfriend. Driven by the rotation of the wheels, the player produces garbled sounds – unless you find the correct speed to recognise a melancholy song. Meanwhile, a microphone picks up ambient sound which is reinforced, gradually drawing out the music. The fragility of the ceramic handles adds to a feeling of time passing and fading memories. Similar connotations are involved in Peng’s series of hand fans. When fans became obsolete, many were used to adorn the paper screens that divided interior spaces. These screens too have lost their function, but as decorative pieces they retain the mystique of things hidden from view.