Shuhan Liu    

                                                           

---I AM  AN  ARTIST---          
Inauthentic  Kitchen          
Oikeios          
Flowers from Table          
Masculinity in Box          
Silent Talking          

---I AM A FILMMAKER---        
    Where the Walls Breath          
The  Function          
Beibei          
The Proper Band's Ridiculous War          
The Wave          

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Working with photography and installation, I deconstruct narrow spatial definitions shaped by politics or geography, proposing identity as a shared narrative—a mindset rather than a mapped location.

We all make sense of our lives through a combination of narratives, a blurred system of thought. It stimulates reactions, determines values, judgements, opinions and behaviours. I want to break down narrow definitions of space, in this project a region is not necessarily a politically or geographically defined space, but a specific space of shared stories and experiences, a state of mind, not the first place on a map. Finding our place therefore means finding our place in the story, and the fluctuation of the characters in the image, expressing themselves freely and freely in the kitchen, is the long, poetic road I have travelled to reach my current location.

I invade the participants' intimate space, the kitchen, revealing different aspects about their private cooking habits in order to explore the new personal memories it is building. Cooking stories propel us into a complex process of how we construct, and understand, ourselves individually and collectively, urging us to reconsider the seemingly simple question: Where are we from?


                                          Master Thesis---Inauthentic Kitchen. pdf