In a world where freedom is shrinking, queerness and femininity are often marginalized. A few years ago, queer writers spoke about feeling 'blue' with brutal honesty; now, this sentiment is expressed through art，and queer women often find themselves as outsiders with untold stories, outsiders are invited to reflect on themes of pain, control, and abandonment.

The installation, Blue Shackles, uses blue strings to symbolize a harsh, entangled world: dense, inescapable, and suffocating. The reality, however, is even more severe—thicker, heavier, and more painful.

From a young age, women are taught to be obedient, stable, self-sacrificing, and loyal, preparing them to become wives, supporters, and comforters. Curiosity, ambition, and rebellion are viewed as threats to this structure, and anything that brings pleasure is often considered immoral.

Much like the patriarchal world, contradictions exist everywhere.

Women, from all corners of the wilderness, from the cracks in the oppressive social structure, step into the blue web, like children embarking on countless journeys from the sea of desire within their hearts, navigating fog filled with reefs and barriers. As they pass through the mist of extinction and revelry, they witness weeds reborn, the ground and seabed inverted, and the suffocating storm pressing down. Their skin and soul become one with the dense forest of desire, and a painful yet strange light emerges from the darkness. They see glowing orbs, floating above their heads, within their bodies. Like the grains of light from a lighthouse in the fog, these orbs are elusive yet unmistakably reflect the universe’s forests and storms. Sometimes, these orbs become a part of themselves—forever rolling, forever escaping, never to be confined, so small yet so profound.

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