基因髮廊－髮夾
Genetic Salon-Hair Pins

《基因髮廊－髮夾》 是 Genetic Salon 系列的第一件作品。作品從藝術家在髮廊中的經驗開始：一個人在剪髮、造型和被髮型師讚美的過程中，短暫地感覺自己被更新、被認可，甚至被帶向一個更美好的未來。然而，當她回到家，日常的身體、情緒與生活狀態似乎並沒有真正改變。

這種髮廊經驗中的「改造承諾」，使藝術家聯想到基因工程對未來的想像。基因改造常被描述成一種從源頭改變命運的方法：只要在生命開始之處進行設計，未來的身體、能力、疾病風險，甚至人生方向都可以被預先調整。作品將這種科技承諾與髮廊的日常幻想並置，想像如果基因設計可以像換髮型一樣容易，人是否也會相信自己的人生能夠被快速修正。

在華語文化中，剪頭髮也常與更新、轉運和告別舊狀態有關。新年前剪髮、重要事件前整理頭髮，彷彿可以把身上的晦氣、疲憊或過去剪走。《基因髮廊－髮夾》 借用這些日常儀式，將 DNA 螺旋、髮夾、美容工具與身體改造的想像連接起來。


作品中的陶瓷髮夾既像裝飾品，也像基因模型、醫療工具或未來美容產品。它們安靜地躺在地上或架上，像一組等待被使用的物件。Genetic Salon 在此成為一個介乎髮廊、實驗室與命運諮詢室之間的想像空間，追問：當改變被包裝成服務，當未來被設計成造型，我們真正渴望改變的是身體，還是被生活承認的方式？

Genetic Salon – Hair Pins is the first work in the Genetic Salon series. The work begins with the artist’s experience of visiting hair salons: the moment of being styled, praised, and recognised by a hairdresser can briefly create the feeling of becoming a renewed version of oneself. In the salon mirror, a new hairstyle seems to offer a new future. Yet after returning home, the body, mood, and ordinary conditions of life often remain largely unchanged.

This temporary promise of transformation led the artist to think about the future imagined by genetic engineering. Genetic modification is often presented as a way to change destiny from the beginning: if life can be designed at its source, then the body, ability, illness, and even one’s future path might appear adjustable in advance. The work places this technological promise beside the everyday fantasy of the hair salon, imagining a world in which genetic design could be as accessible and immediate as getting a new hairstyle.

In Chinese-speaking cultures, cutting hair is also associated with renewal, luck, and the removal of unwanted energy. Before the Lunar New Year or before important events, getting a haircut can feel like a small ritual of clearing away the past. Genetic Salon – Hair Pins draws from these everyday beliefs and connects them to DNA spirals, hair accessories, beauty tools, and the imagination of bodily redesign.

The ceramic hair pins in the work appear at once as ornaments, genetic models, medical tools, and future beauty products. Placed on the floor or on a shelf, they seem to wait for use. Genetic Salon becomes an imagined space between a hair salon, a laboratory, and a fortune-telling room, asking what we really desire when transformation is offered as a service: to change the body, to change destiny, or to be recognised as a better version of ourselves.