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Have never done this before as behind the camera is where I operate—what an adventure to see one’s own self afresh through the eyes of an artist. Thank you, the best @oriana_camara ♥️ and the one and only @macdowell1907 for your generosity, kindness and all kinds of gifts we will carry ahead.

P1-6 by Oriana Camara (sneakily captured in P7, as who doesn’t love behind the scene shots of motion?) by @dzz.daisy

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20 days ago

Sooooo grateful for getting to share these two little pieces, grateful for everyone’s time, and many thoughtful notes that have been warmly received 💛

On view at Power Station of Art, Shanghai, July 16 – October 8, 2026
“Carrier Bags from the Peripherals” 「从边缘开始收集」
Curated by @_yalunli_ and @m0naqian, exhibition design by @y__y.studio (@_yalunli_ @yiran____ )

🧹“Broom-ing”
Two-channel Video Installation, 3’00
Mexico and Brazil, 2026

As a continuation of Wrinkles (2023), which examines the aging of architecture, this video further investigates the symbiosis between architecture and people through the acts of maintenance. Using the camera as a spatial tool to experiment with 3D scanning, digital fabrication, and robotic plotting, it attends to the often gendered and invisible labor of upkeep not as an afterthought, but a generative, political force in the built environment.

🧹“She Crossed”
Film, 18’00
USA, 2024

Filmed and edited over four years, “She Crossed” is an intimate portrait of two migrant women building lives in a foreign land. Through daily observation of cleaning routines, the film traces the invisible borders they navigate, foregrounding tender acts of longing and companionship rooted in the unseen labor of maintenance. Award statement by the jury for ZONTA Prize, 71st Oberhausen International Short Film Festival (2025): “A portrait always tells us something about the portrayed and the one portraying. The film in question doesn’t merely portray care work, but creates a cinematic form through rhythm and observation to convey precarity, tenderness and evanescence; the gentle passion as well as aesthetic grandeur of human encounters. Through an homage to a very particular woman, it celebrates intimacy, trust and activities carried out by millions of women around the world without recognition. The protagonist’s love for plants is mirrored in the attention with which the filmmaker turns to the most ephemeral phenomena, be it a raindrop or the passing expression of a face.”

P1-4, V6 ©Power Station of Art
P5 ©CHANEL ©Power Station of Art ©Photography by Chen Hao by @dzz.daisy

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a month ago

Thisworldly 💙 by @dzz.daisy

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a month ago

On and off for ten years I’ve been polaroiding, for all the beautiful people who have generously crossed my life. To honour that moment which was real, and we were lucky to have lived it in the first place. Thank you 💛 here’s an incomplete portrait of this summer by @dzz.daisy

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2 months ago

A post dedicated to Friends, these insanely beautiful, creative, resilient and funny people!! I’ve been trying to write something to honour this group, but whatever comes out feels terribly inadequate. Two months. Had life-changing conversations everyday. Smelled flowers. Watched stars at 2am. Worked, not worked, being “a wizard in the woods” and danced. Ping ponged fiercely every night, swam, and kept learning to dive. Laughed out of breath, and cried A LOT. Fell asleep in peace knowing you’ll see your friends again tomorrow, and tomorrow there’s always hot breakfast. Even if you miss hot breakfast, there’s always cold breakfast. And lunch, dinner, by the most warm-hearted kitchen.

”You have all the time in the world”. Until that morning that taxi driver appeared in his usual spot, but this time you’re the one getting on. He grinned, “I know you, you were crying every time I drove your friends away.”

I’m gonna cheat a bit by quoting the wonderful @jared.denzel ‘s speech and his book title, Saudade... “This deep melancholic, emotional state of nostalgic longing for a person a place or a thing that’s absent. More than simply missing something, it’s a profound bittersweet feeling of cherishing a beloved memory while aching for a past that may never return.”

I simply cannot be more grateful. Knowing that we exist in the same world makes me happy and hopeful, and I will always pray for the very best for you all 🩷 Cannot pick all the photos I love so here are some dumps by @dzz.daisy

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2 months ago

It’s been such a heartfelt and inspiring conversation with the great editor @bokyoung.spacem Thank you so much for your generosity, insights and warm trust 🩷 And thank you @spacemagazine_korea for having me, 정말감사합니다 :)

SPACE Issue. May (2026) by @dzz.daisy

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4 months ago

Some behind-the-scenes of 2025, projectors and walls and screens. Construction and testing is always my fav part although often loaded with stress and tears 💦 by @dzz.daisy

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7 months ago

Pointcloud lacing… processed from 3D scan and one day of cutting in the laser room 🌬️

“An everyday corner”
Part of “Wrinkles”, 2022 by @dzz.daisy

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7 months ago

“Wrinkles”
Research, Film
Mexico City, Mexico
Drawing acquired by MIT Museum as permanent collection
2022

This project investigates the aging of architecture. A building is never a static object but a living being that grows - a building exchanges care. Rooted in a standard residential building in the center of Mexico City - one with 70 years of history being born, lived, earthquake-destructed, abandoned, repaired, and cared for - this project traces the reciprocal relationship between the life cycle of the building and the lives unfolding within it.

Working closely with the local residents, this project borrows the camera as a spatial tool to experiment with film language, 3D scanning, digital fabrication and robotic printing. From matters to actions, between bodies and rituals, an alternative literacy is composed that breaks the binary of before/after in architecture design. By disentangling the heavily gendered, and often invisible labor of upkeep, the project foregrounds maintenance not as an afterthought, but as a generative, political force in the built environment.

Special thanks to Lila from Mexico City; thesis advisor William O’Brien Jr. and readers Jeffrey Landman, Rosalyne Shieh, Anne Whiston Spirn. Voiceover by the beautiful Maria del Carmen Medrano Plascencia

Film Screening
Screening and Lecture, Architecture + Urbanism Public Lecture Series, MIT Department of Architecture, USA, 2025
Screening, “Forms of Care”, Salt Beyoğlu, Türkiye, 2025
Screening, XXII Bienal de Arquitectura y Urbanismo de Chile, Chile, 2025
Official Selection, Arquitectura Film Festival Santiago, Chile, 2024
Official Selection, Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam, Netherlands, 2023
Official Selection, ArchFilmLund Film Festival, Sweden, 2023
Finalist, Venice Architecture Film Festival, Italy, 2023
Finalist, 17th Istanbul International Architecture and Urban Films Festival, Türkiye, 2023
Official Selection, Vienna Architektur. Film. Sommer 2023, Austria, 2023
(excerpt “Caretaking”) Shortlisted, Copenhagen Architecture Festival Film Mosaic Competition, Denmark, 2023
Winner, “Transmedial Media Architecture” at Media Architecture Biennale, Canada, 2023 by @dzz.daisy

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7 months ago

“Intimate Immensity”
Exhibition, Public Workshop
at UCCA Edge, China
In collaboration with @_yalunli_ and @feiyuec
2023

Borrowing from Gaston Bachelard’s notion of immensity—the expansive, often poetic experience that unfolds within intimate space—this exhibition examines domestic life through “consumption” as both action and condition: consuming, while also being consumed. In the wake of the pandemic, the home has absorbed multiple roles once held apart, collapsing distinctions between retreat and exposure, labor and leisure, intimacy and performance. Within this altered spatial economy, consumption permeates domestic space not only materially, but emotionally and psychologically.

Six participants from varied professions and working conditions were invited to 3D scan a fragment of their home where consumption felt most present. Point-cloud scans were translated into abstract yet faintly recognizable drawings, unrolled at a 1:1 scale along a narrow passageway. As viewers move through the space, domestic objects dissolve into traces of gesture, habits, and rituals. Rather than literal representation, the exhibition constructs an embodied encounter with how everyday acts of consumption inhabit and quietly reshape the spaces we call our very own.

Special thanks to curator @m0naqian 🌸 by @dzz.daisy

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8 months ago

“No Leftovers No Left Out”
Film, 02’34
Santiago de Compostela, Spain
2023

From superseded everyday objects to discarded building materials, our surroundings are filled with “waste”. This research questions what is left behind by standardized ways of building, and envisions alternative ways of making architecture. A serene and playful public space, designed by Ensemble Studio using leftover quarry stones and recycled CDs, highlights such materials deemed too irregular or obsolete to be useful. Through a sensual experience, it invites viewers to reconsider how value can be re-assigned in construction. Special thanks to @anton_ensamble and @debora_ensamble

Selected Screening
Official Selection, ArchFilmLund Film Festival, Sweden, 2024
Official Selection, Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam, Netherlands, 2023
Finalist, Venice Architecture Film Festival, Italy, 2023
Shortlisted, Copenhagen Architecture Festival Film Mosaic Competition, Denmark, 2023
Honourable Mention, ArchiShorts | Architecture +Design Film Festival Winnipeg, Canada, 2023 by @dzz.daisy

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8 months ago

“Spring, Along Beijing Central Axis”, animated point-cloud video installation designed for Venice Architecture Biennale 2025, in collaboration with @_yalunli_ and @feiyuec

modified for display in a public art space in Shanghai, retrofitted from an abandoned shipyard by @dzz.daisy

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8 months ago