Be You, but Happy

installation, 2024


Bedroom furniture, handmade ceramics, soft furnishings, custom-made badges and stickers, laptop, looping video and music, mannequin, breathing mechanism, empty medication blister packs, handpainted wooden ‘mood’ calendar, AI generated ‘family’ photographs, fake books, instructions on how to smile, souvenirs, general rubbish, handmade posters, plants, etchings on glass and wood, clothing, wires, framed paintings.

Installation shown as part of the exhibition ‘Lights Out’ and during a residency at Sixi Museum, Nanjing, China.