Chocolateee

About

My name is Chocolate. I am from HongKong. I am a photographer and feminist artist. My work is all about strong feelings and visuals. In my installations, I specialise in using my personal traumas and personal experiences to provoke social issues. I like to make all my artworks with sincerity and authenticity.

For the RCA Contemporary Art Practice Graduation Exhibition, I made an installation on sexual disorders and sexual trauma.

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“My father told me that he could do this to me because he is my father. My ex told me that he could do this to me because he was my boyfriend.” I’ve been a victim of sexual harassment, sexual assault, sexual coerciond.I always confuse. It leads me to believe that I have to obey their orders because of some “relationship”, and people often connect sex with love, which makes me feel confused. I’m a hurtful this, I’m like dead sexually, I’m scared of sex, I have a lot of mental trauma. I’m sure there are a lot of hurting women besides me.

This time I collected hundreds of ceiling photos from different girls, wherever they are, I said take a picture of the ceiling of the place where they are at the moment, so you’ll see some of them are outdoors, on the ceiling of a church, in the sky of the woods, at the traffic lights you can see when you look up, on the ceiling of the underground, and no exceptions are all kinds of ceilings of their rooms! Because sex offences come from anywhere in the world. And I recorded different sound from different women and mixed itAfter that, I created a huge 240cmx120cm rectangular installation. I put photos and sounds of these ceilings into the installation. I wanted people to see the sights and hear the sounds of hundreds of sex victims in an enclosed environment.I want to bring a sense of helplessness and oppression to the audiences.

Welcome to our world of trauma!