My Garden, My Sanctuary 

Fact Liverpool, UK
July - Oct 2022

Rites of passage define key moments as we drift from one stage in life to the next. Our identities glitch and flow as the influences of media, culture and technology collide with our ancestry. In My Garden, My Sanctuary artists Sian Fan (UK) and Yaloo (South Korea) submerge us in watery worlds from which they reclaim their cultural identities and remake their coming-of-age stories.

As FACT Liverpool’s Curator-in-Residence 2022, Carrie worked with the two artists in creating three newly commissioned installations in response to the institution’s theme “Radical Ancestry”.  

The artists present a series of large-scale animated installations and interactive gaming environments using commodified symbols of East-Asian culture that have become commonplace globally. These symbols include K-pop dance routines, the use of seaweed in food and beauty products, hypersexualised female avatars and spiritual icons stripped of their religious significance. Yaloo and Sian Fan take these symbols and remix them to build playful new worlds.

Further reading: https://www.fact.co.uk/event/my-garden-my-sanctuary

https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/470222/yaloo-and-sian-fanmy-garden-my-sanctuary/