Wantanocchiobot'09, 2009

Developed in 2009, this early sculptural project emerged from my critical engagement with the art world and its systems of validation, visibility, and cultural representation.

At the time, I was interested in how artistic identity was shaped through expectations, institutional frameworks, and globalised narratives—particularly in relation to “Asian” and “Western” cultural hierarchies.

The work reflects my attempt to question and resist these structures through irony, appropriation, and self-representation.

Looking back, this project marks a formative moment in which I tested the limits of critique within the art system—before gradually realising that this arena was no longer central to my practice. It signals an early stage in my ongoing shift away from institutional commentary toward more experiential, relational, and beyond-human concerns.