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Golden Rice Cookers

Rice cookers, rice paddy, burlap cloth, kraft paper, digital print on sticker paper and other medias

Installation

150 x 400 x 400 cm

​2025

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Based on the asian stereotype of growing up eating rice. This installation explores the different ideas of growth relating to rice; growing up with rice cooker in our home, with folktales about rice, and with its staple supply for consumption.

 

Similar to rice, the rice cooker is stereotypically in all asian household celebrates the rice cooker as a mundane object with different shapes sizes and colour. By collecting used ricecookers, the object portrays the stains and dents that was made from years of cooking hinting a narrative of the amount of people it has fed. 

 

Placed in a library, the word golden comes from the many asian folktales found in its contents. With snippets of these hundreds of year old tales, passed down through many generations, printed on the rice cookers, many of them reference the padi field as golden as it ripens.

Golden Rice Cookers involves a workshop to plant yourself inside rice cookers. It involves transforming oneself into plant like shape and planting it inside the installation. The artwork grow the artwork with more and more people plants being contributed as time pass on. It symbolizes how we physically and metaphorically grow up with rice.

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