CHINA

My practice investigates how emotional norms, familial expectations, and social language operate as subtle disciplinary systems. Growing up within a culture where care often arrives in the same form as control, I became attentive to the quiet mechanisms through which affection, obedience, and emotional suppression are negotiated. My works examine these frictions—how love becomes regulation, how protection becomes enclosure, and how everyday expressions of concern can imprint themselves onto the body and psyche.
 
I work across installation, ceramics, and mixed media, using transparent surfaces, fragile structures, and domestic materials to recreate the emotional architectures that shape intimate relationships. Enclosures, boxes, repeated phrases, and symbolic objects often appear as metaphors for invisible boundaries—at once protective and restrictive. By externalising private emotional experiences into physical form, I seek to make visible the psychological landscapes that are typically hidden or normalised within family and social life.
 
My practice combines tactile making with critical reflection. I draw from psychology, social theory, and my own lived history to explore how individuals internalise expectations, and how emotional discipline becomes embedded in daily language. Through material layering and spatial tension, I aim to create spaces where viewers can recognise their own negotiations with care, obedience, resistance, and the desire for self-definition.
 
Ultimately, my work asks how emotional control circulates in ordinary life—and how art can open a space for observing, reframing, and potentially releasing these inherited structures.

Website: www.jsusya.com