Life & Family I｜Saving the Lapsed


Estimated Starting Date: 2025/12
Possible Methods: Photography, Filming, Diary, Knitting...
Artist: Sophia Wan
My grandmother is an Alzheimer’s patient. Her mother developed the disease in her eighties, yet for my grandmother, it began in her early sixties. The change started last year. I still remember how, in the autumn, she was full of vitality—both physically and mentally. But since the beginning of this year, she has withered like a plant unable to survive the winter.

She can no longer live independently. She has forgotten many of the daily rituals that once defined her—how to cook, bathe, choose her clothes, even how to use the bathroom. Before her memories fade completely, I want to document what remains: the fragments of her gestures, the traces of her routines, the quiet erosion of time.


 






Life & Family II ｜ Who She was


Estimated Starting Date: 2026/01
Possible Methods: Animation, audiovisual composition, filming, drawing...
Artist: Sophia WanI’ve always loved celebrating my birthday. But I remember one year, when I was little, my mother suddenly said to me, “You shouldn’t feel happy on your birthday — it’s the day your mother suffered.” That sentence has stayed with me ever since.

As I grew older, I began to realize how much my mother had sacrificed for me. Perhaps that’s why she has always held such high expectations of me. Yet I know so little about who she was before she became my mother. Once, my father was tidying the bookshelf and pulled out a magazine. “Your mom wrote an article in this one,” he said. That was how I discovered — almost by accident — that my mother was once a writer. She never mentioned it, not even once, in all the years I can remember.

Through this project, I want to trace the transformations in women’s lives before and after they become mothers — to understand who they were before childbirth, and what parts of themselves were left behind. I believe that question matters deeply.

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