SHIU JUI TSZ

_{Snake?, 2025
Stainless steel, FRP
Dimensions variable}

In the game of Snake, the snake continuously moves and consumes food within a confined space, growing larger until its body can no longer be contained. This work uses this process as a metaphor for migrants who, in a foreign land, absorb vast amounts of new culture— habits and memories are fed by new perceptions, constantly expanding and reshaping the self. The artist seeks to pause this process, allowing the snake to take a moment of rest.

In the game, the snake is pixelated into a symbolic form, much like how cross-border workers are flattened into mere commodities in the labor market. This work restores the snake to a tangible form, suggesting the re-individualization of labor, whose faces are often blurred into anonymity.

_{貪吃蛇？，2025
不鏽鋼、玻璃纖維
尺寸依場地而定}

在貪吃蛇遊戲中，蛇在被侷限的框架裡不停穿梭與進食，逐漸長大直至空間容納不下自己的身體。此件作品將這個過程比喻為遷移者身處異地接收大量新文化的過程，習慣與記憶被新的感知餵養，不停地膨脹並重新形塑主體。藝術家希望能將這個過程暫停，讓蛇稍作休息。

在貪吃蛇遊戲中，蛇的型態被像素化作為符號，如同跨越國界的勞動者被扁平化地視為勞動市場中的商品；作品將蛇回復為具象型態，暗示能使面孔模糊的勞動力回復為個體。

Photos 1-5 courtesy of Taipei Fine Arts Museum