Trojan Women
Photography, digital media, etc.
2019 – present
2026
Since I read Trojan women by Anne Carson on the Paris review, I have been thinking about how China makes people view women as subordinates. In 2020 or 2021 I was arrested for uttering death threats, etc. It was all after I read pages of the graphic novel on my desk. The depictions of dogs, cows and women as them really disturbed me. It has become my duty to change people’s perception in the aftermath of the wars, gulf wars, Iran wars and Israel Palestine wars. I went to the queen’s park circling the park in the middle of the nights talking about my dog, Simba which inspired insane jealousy of people who were creeping around. They yelled and screamed catcalling at me, saying you are beautiful and ambushing me on my way back along the Bloor street with green sprite bottles upside down over the ground lights. It was racist. I went home writing down various notes about them and tearing them off as an action oriented performance art project injecting theatrics into my works. Since then people have been making up stories about cows, women, prostitutes, gods, and bitches. That’s the aftermath of any wars. Etc.
Yuling Chen 