Beini Chen
How to Become a Perfect Mom
£10
Beini Chen
2023How to Become a Perfect Mom collects, archives, and arranges advertisements for maternal and infant products on the online shopping website Taobao. The images and texts are interrogated and hybridised in the form of a manual to challenge single female representation and the pressure of intensive parenting in a satirical way.
《如何成为完美妈妈》通过收集和分析淘宝网站上的母婴产品广告，将图像和广告文本以指导手册的形式进行质疑和混合，讽刺性地挑战了对女性外貌和密集育儿压力的传统观念。
Or Not to Become
£20
Beini Chen
2023
Or Not to Become presents in-depth conversations with 5 young Chinese mothers. It also edits, curates, and facilitates (work by other artists/mothers) about their ‘failed’ experiences of transitioning from womanhood to motherhood.
《或许不去成为》包含与五位年轻中国母亲的深入对话，同时展示了艺术家母亲的作品，分享她们从女性身份过渡到母亲身份中的“失败经历”。