《不朽小姐：申請表格》
Miss Perpetual: Form Piece

《不朽小姐：申請表格》以近十年的《香港小姐》申請文件為核心材料，將選美制度中看似普通的行政表格轉化為一種關於身體、身份與觀看的檔案。作品關注的並不是選美舞台上的華麗形象，而是女性在進入舞台之前，如何先被表格閱讀、分類和標準化。

申請表在這裡並不是中性的文件。它將年齡、身高、體重、教育背景、家庭狀況與照片並置，把一個人轉化成可以被比較、評審和淘汰的資料。作品藉此思考「香港小姐」作為一種反覆生產的女性形象，如何承載電視文化、殖民現代性、階級想像與性別規訓。

“Miss Perpetual” 指向一種不斷更新卻從未真正消失的身體模板。每一年都有新的參賽者，但對女性美貌、端莊、可展示性與可消費性的要求卻持續存在。作品透過影像與文字裝置，重新閱讀這些申請文件背後的權力結構，並追問：在被看見之前，一個身體已經被怎樣預先塑造？

Miss Perpetual: Form Piece takes nearly ten years of Miss Hong Kong application forms as its central material, transforming these seemingly ordinary administrative documents into an archive of the body, identity, and spectatorship. Rather than focusing on the glamorous image of the beauty pageant stage, the work looks at what happens before a woman is allowed to appear: how she is first read, classified, and standardised through a form.

In this work, the application form is not treated as a neutral document. Age, height, weight, education, family background, marital status, and photographs are placed side by side, turning a person into a set of comparable and assessable data. Through this process, the work examines how “Miss Hong Kong” has been repeatedly produced as a feminine ideal shaped by television culture, colonial modernity, class aspiration, and gendered discipline.

The title Miss Perpetual points to a body template that is constantly renewed but never fully disappears. Every year, new contestants enter the system, yet the expectations of beauty, elegance, displayability, and desirability remain. Through video and text installation, Miss Perpetual: Form Piece rereads these application forms as quiet instruments of power, asking how a body has already been shaped before it is allowed to be seen.