The Cups Journey
2023
wax, light
This work reflects on heavily industrialized menstrual products, investigating the relation between women and their bodies in different cultural context. Based on the real-life experience from the attempt to purchase a menstrual cup as an Asian woman in German drugstore. Beside the fact that there’s no “smaller” size cups for people who have a relatively petit figure, a serial question was raised. Where does the idea of placing an object into women's bodies come from? How come I have the urge to buy such a product, even though I have never used it and am physically repulsed by it?
The installation The Cups Journey is an amalgamation in response to those concerns, consisting of a pile of hand-made and extra small sized cups laying in the corner of the room. They are frangible, translucent, and marginal, already in the setting for disposal, speaking to the devoid touch and warmth in the product of globalization.