HAVE YOU EVER SEEN — Jiachen Liu

HAVE YOU EVER NOTICED THOSE SANDBAGS?
LATEX
11MINS FILM
PERFORMANCE
2023

https://youtu.be/hp3gF2qriuM
_{During long rainy days in Glasgow, I felt myself melting into the cracks in the ground and flowing in different directions. Contact and communication with pigeon feathers and leaves, cigarette butts and chewing gum paper. I kept noticing the sandbags under the signage, they are rarely noticed and silently placed all over the city. They grow moss in the damp rain, crook in the wind and spit out the dirt inside. At some point, I become them too, choking on the iron frame, with bruises appearing on my skin.

I am constantly, actively or passively, feeling this connection, and at the same time, I am thinking about the reasons why my feelings arise. I use latex to bond with my " new friends" that I meet on the street, attaching them to my body like a second skin. Latex is also one of the main materials used to make condoms, suggesting my scepticism about the blurring of boundaries and feelings of division.}

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