Here Together (2nd iteration)
Here Together, 2022-2024, ceramic, paracord, studio trolley, projector, wooden table, containers and Scout Red Cord.
Here Together (2024), is a ceramic, object, rope and light-based installation work which explores themes of dis/comfort and in/stability. Here Together is attentive to the complex tensions and mixed affect that often arise within interracial families. Ceramic assemblages sit atop plastic containers and a wooden stool from Mei Lin’s family home. Re-negotiating their relationship with these objects, Mei Lin engages in a process of play, and joyful resistance. Rope and knots hold a functional role in Here Together, webbing together various ceramics from 2022 and 2023. There is a tender balance, and without these knots, the work would topple.
Here Together, is a hodgepodge of strange lineages and timelines, and a working through of how white supremacy is reproduced in domestic spaces.