Wandering (Together / Alone--Under Suburban Sky )

"Together / Alone-Under Suburban Sky is intrinsically tied to my experience moving to the U.S. at the age of 40 from Shanghai, China. Life is drama. For this project, I dressed up as an ordinary suburban housewife to show scenes of daily life. I made some images like film footage by using long exposures and 16:9 ratio.

For the past few years, this project has been the primary source material in creating a body of work that explores the migrant narrative and my suburban housewife experience, albeit through a personal lens. Photography is an effective way to depict real scenes in life and can challenge norms of female sexuality, beauty, domesticity, and identity.

The suburban life is very peaceful. It represents a middle-class lifestyle, with a comfortable house, two or three kids, and a hardworking husband. They are living together; however, she feels lonely. In Betty Friedan’s words, the problem has no name."

– Li Lin-Liang