Her Page

2025

#Textile Installation #Art Tapestry #Handcraft

As a direct physical manifestation of the Emotion Assembly Line concept, Her Page is an immense sculptural tapestry composed of 2700 individually intertwined spheres. While Zhou Yue's conceptual framework is driven by the extreme commercial productivity of her Yiwu upbringing, this specific artwork shifts the focus to the extreme accumulation of human labor as an act of resistance.

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Drawing inspiration from the Miao ethnic group's Mu Hua Ben (an ancient cloth where new and old stitches and various threads continuously accumulate, passed down from mother to daughter), Zhou Yue transforms memory into a systematized visual language. She translates the traditional Gelao bamboo weaving technique she learned in Kaili, Guizhou, onto industrial silver plated copper wire. The immense time and labor spent hand weaving these 2700 rigid metallic spheres are also an integral part of the artwork's concept. This deliberate deceleration of the assembly line speed forcefully reshapes cold and standardized industrial fragments into a deeply personal visual archive, weaving human labor, emotional memory, and female identity into every single knot.