Kexin Xiao
About
Invalid Accompany
2022
This project focuses on describing children who accompany the elderly but are absent-minded. They seem to be there for the elderly, but in reality, they lack real care and always revolve around their own lives.
My vision is to make an installation where the older person is in the centre, sta- tionary and always looking out of the window in the direction of the sunset, showing the older person's sadness at their late age. The children surround the elderly, making a rotatable device to represent their busy personal lives and mental separation from the elderly.
This issue is related to the current model of ageing, and I would like to explore what needs to be done to improve family ageing in modern society and per- haps try to resort to more scientific methods of ageing and ask for social sup- port when the children are unable to do so.
size:50cm x 50cm x 30cm
Materials:stone modeling clay, acrylic, digital, cardboard, acrylic board