natalie quan yau tso 左君悠
natalie quan yau tso 左君悠
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I am making, thinking, working and living on stolen Cammeraygal and Gadigal lands of the Eora nation as an uninvited guest. I would like to acknowledge and pay my respects to the elders past, present and emerging. Sovereignty was never ceded. 

works
I Have Arrived at Yellow (2022)
Nothing Happened Here 呢度冇事發生 (2022)
Wedding (2022)
dear, from (2022-ongoing)
Peeling & Cleansing (2020-1)
蜂蜜豆漿 Soy Milk and Honey (2021)
許願雲 Wishing Clouds (2021)
Pepper Spray (2020)
Tracing (2020)
我出來了 Out-Coming (2020)
the forgotten is not forgetting (2020)
Milk Tea? (2019)
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I am making, thinking, working and living on stolen Cammeraygal and Gadigal lands of the Eora nation as an uninvited guest. I would like to acknowledge and pay my respects to the elders past, present and emerging. Sovereignty was never ceded. 

works
I Have Arrived at Yellow (2022)
Nothing Happened Here 呢度冇事發生 (2022)
Wedding (2022)
dear, from (2022-ongoing)
Peeling & Cleansing (2020-1)
蜂蜜豆漿 Soy Milk and Honey (2021)
許願雲 Wishing Clouds (2021)
Pepper Spray (2020)
Tracing (2020)
我出來了 Out-Coming (2020)
the forgotten is not forgetting (2020)
Milk Tea? (2019)
about
CV
contact

Wedding

2022

me and my partner's hair, hair gel, wires
mirror, combs on gold tulle

110x80cm

as part of I Have Arrived at Yellow at Tuggeranong Arts Centre, 2022


Hair is a witness to trauma who can be freed. Tso crochets her and her partner’s hair together in Wedding to symbolise their queer union, where she then performed a contemporised version of the 上頭 (Sheung Tau) ceremony. The traditionally sexist ceremony is meant to signify the bride ‘becoming a woman’ upon marriage by combing through her hair while blessing fortunes about birthing children. Tso will comb the hairy sculpture, and the union of two Cantonese girl’s hair will resist from being combed through. 



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