“Through formal and material interventions, infinite gestures for finding luck draws from my mother’s imprecise knowledge of our ancestral Chinese traditions and rituals. Drag, the lighting studio and the aesthetics of Camp are used to reimagine Chinese marriage ceremonies to call into question patriarchal notions of gender. The commerical language of product photography catalogs historical Chinese and Chinatown objects to challenge the ways Euro-America conflates objects to East Asiatic femininity, and generalizes Asian culture.

The hovering hands in pantyhose, the continuous loop of the GIFs, and the objects referencing wealth are not only attempts at finding luck, but attempts to disrupt the long term impacts of assimilation into the hegemony of American culture. These gestures and rituals are interventions that reject the pressure to fit into white heterenormative beauty standards, creating an alternate reality that prioritizes play, humor and queer joy.”

– Jamie Ho