Lost from Taiwan is a 2018 performance exploring the artist’s fractured relationship with language, identity, and belonging. The performance started by breathing against a window, appearing like a ghost in between worlds, and lost. 

Performed in Taiwan, the piece centers around speaking in Chinese while confronting gaps in vocabulary—each missing word leaving a silence that embodies the pain of displacement. The audience invited to fill the blanks, projecting their own interpretations of loss and identity. Having left Taiwan for France, the artist felt alienated both in her adopted country and upon returning to Taiwan, where she was perceived as mixed-race and linguistically inadequate, reinforcing a sense of being neither fully at home in either place.

The performance incorporated ritual elements deeply tied to ancestry and cultural identity. It began with taking blood and marking money traditionally used for offerings to ancestors, referencing the significance of blood ties in Asian traditions. A red thread connected the audience, symbolizing an attempt to bridge lost connections. Ultimately, the performance served as a healing act, addressing the artist’s struggle with identity and belonging. It reflected the experience of being “lost” from Taiwan—both as someone who left and as someone who, upon returning, no longer fully belonged.

In 2018 I performed a ritual in my Birth city of Taipei, entering a dialogue about being a foreigner in your own motherland, not having the words to expressed oneself.