Racharudee (Zhu clan), 2023


Racharudee (Zhu clan) is a stack of blank paper created from destruction. The artist destroyed her family's ancestral book from the Zhu Clan in China, dating back to the 13th century. When her father passed on, no one could read Chinese, and her link to ancestral China was severed.

Siripattananuntakul proceeded to pulp the pages to create a new book. This sheer act of heresy — to erase your past — is a tribute to both life and death. Tellingly, the violence can only come from a sense of rootlessness, of being without memory and history. For Siripattananuntakul, it is in her complex identity as part of the Chinese diaspora.