Lullaby is an interactive installation and the first piece in my series Chick. This series explores the hybridization of the human form and a chicken—an allegorical figure commenting on gender expectations and value in both Eastern and Western cultures, viewed through the lens of industrial chicken production.
The top part of the hybrid figure is a hollow, headless, and limbless female torso—a visual echo of the Venus de Milo, the classical Greek sculpture associated with idealized beauty. Yet Venus is also a figure of loss—her missing arms, serve as a reminder of control and fragmentation imposed upon the female body. In Chick, the absent head and limbs further emphasize objectification and erasure, reducing the female body to a passive, consumable form.
In China, the word “鸡” (hen) is a derogatory slang term for a prostitute, a label used to demean women. In the U.S., hens are sold headless, reduced to faceless commodities—stripped of identity, intellect, and autonomy. Mirroring the life cycle of farm-raised hens—valued solely for offspring production before being slaughtered—Chick critiques how society conditions women from childhood to conform to expectations, stripping them of individual identity and reducing them to their reproductive or service functions.

As the first piece in this cycle, Lullaby represents the beginning—no stop reminding purity and beauty, a female life born with the weight of imposed expectations.