2025
Carved alabaster stone, brass, silver
16 x 8.5 x 7 cm
The Pears series began with A Pear is not a Pair, a stone sculpture with a silver spoon stem that explored cultural symbolism within the artist’s heritage. In Chinese culture, sharing a pear is considered symbolic of separation, due to the homophonic link between “pear” (梨) and “separate” (离). The use of stone embodies the impossibility of sharing, while the silver spoon stem visually invites it, creating a quiet contradiction.
This year, as members of the artist’s family began living in different countries, the work evolved. By cutting the pear into halves, she echoes the current distance and shifting relationships within her family, turning the sculpture into both a marker of separation and a gesture of togetherness.
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