solo exhibition, 'Some Words' at Camberwell College of the Arts Library, London, UK

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index of works writings about



循环Translated Essay (2019)翻译

tracing paper, thread, ink

Translated Essay is a hand-copied record of a journal being Google-translated between Mandarin and Chinese 12 times. The original text being in Mandarin, it has been translated to English then back to Mandarin until the word choices, grammar and sentence structures are no longer altered through the process.

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overview of translated essay, pp. 0-10