Our bodies shape themselves from the languages we retain while navigating lived experiences, culture, and history. Vocabulary informs behaviours. Behaviours become truths. But when the worshipped becomes the source of our everyday pains, how do we move past the foundations constructing our identity?

‘A Name To It’ illuminates the complicated sentiments of (un)narrating the language of manhood. Who left their imprint on me? What armour am I wearing? Why was I afraid to cry? In this unfurling of memories and emotions, Boris (Only One Yes) offers a resting ground for the ghosts of masculinity. The haunting of expectations and contradictions envelop the shrine in an ominous veil. Within this air of red lies the messiness of finding forgiveness for past selves: the versions once reluctant to recognize the violent shadows of masculinity, the versions that treated tenderness as weakness

The installation depicts new language forming when we allow the body to fall. To surrender to the descent as the foundation beneath collapses. This moment of free fall is when the vocabulary of the past reconfigures, its roots touching the truest, honest, forms of ourselves. ‘A Name To It’ commemorates past ghosts that have built the foundations for selves to now imagine a vulnerable version of masculinity. By laying past versions of masculinity to rest, space is given to embrace the versions of manhood yet to come.

The installation is made possible by the unconditional support of loved ones and friends.
Frances Lee @orangica
Yiu Hei Cheung @yiu.hei
Matt Cheung @_isochron
Seden Lai @sedensworkshop
Andrew Keung @andrew.keung
Jamie Fung @jamiethefung
Abby Ho @ayebbey

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‘A Name To It’ is one of several projects at STACKT Market for the 2025 DesignTO Festival. Celebrate these projects with a free, site-wide party on Sat, Jan 25 from 6-10pm. Visit ‘Design Collection @ STACKT Launch Party’ to learn more.