The Z Generation in Front of the Camera is a solo work born from ongoing inquiries into the tensions between identity, family, and digital imagery. It unfolds between the "lightness of digital" and "weight of emotion," seeking to clarify how the body carries love, memory, and generational experience in undefined gaps.
First presented as a short version at "Body Gathering" in late 2024, the full work returned to the artist's hometown at the Nantou Cultural Center in 2025, invited by producer Su Pin-wen for the production Echo · Resonance.
The choice of a non-theatrical space forces actions to renegotiate their relationship with site and narrative. The body is no longer a mere object of display, but shares a public space with the audience, finding a new balance between solitude and connection.
Initially an impulse to initiate dialogue with parents and articulate the unspeakable, the work has evolved into an observation of how Generation Z navigates family and self-image on social media. Revisiting ages five, ten, fifteen, and twenty, it examines how photos form an unstable memory system. Born in 2004 during the social media boom, the artist’s boundaries between public and private are constantly rewritten.
While images are mass-consumed, they paradoxically foreground irreproducible bodily sensations. Feedback on "reconstructing a body without memory" and "technological progress" serves as vital threads for the work’s ongoing development.