Female Worker Crossing the Rosen Bridge

Yue Mingyue, 2021
water gauze, thread, digital embroidery, hand embroidery, spray paint
150cm x 150cm

This artwork is about female and labor of the times. It’s said that women usually do weaving, but also do farm work for farming busy time. Yue's work continues the "weaving" work, using hand embroidery and digital embroidery to complete embroidery on the yarn. The works present elements such as "women", "wheat", "farming", "weaving" and "wormhole". The vertical direction of the work shows the passage of time, and the horizontal direction displays the extension of space. "Rosen Bridge" serves as a passage in the work, connect-ing female workers of the two eras. The female workers in the picture take charge of two tasks farming and weaving. Yue hopes her work can inspire people to think about the position of women in different eras and reflect the coincidence of traditional and modern labor.




This work was exhibited at the "Moment, Present—Along with Her" art exhibition at Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art. This exhibition takes "female" and "labor" as the two main themes. The installation of the works creates a special projection through suspension and lighting, which echoes the time and space between the real and the virtual.